Re: [PATCH] doc: add deprecation notice for meson version

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

+ Marco and Christian to ensure I get the most distro awareness.

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 11:37:13AM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> Add a notice in the deprecation section of the release notes to call out
> the fact that the minimum supported meson version for DPDK will change
> from 19.05 onwards.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index d4aea4b46..92524e4e3 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    Long Term Stable (LTS) version which is 3.16, but compatibility for
>    recent distribution kernels will be kept.
>  
> +* meson: The minimum supported version of meson for configuring and building
> +  DPDK will be increased to v0.47.1 (from 0.41) from DPDK 19.05 onwards. For
> +  those users with a version earlier than 0.47.1, an updated copy of meson
> +  can be got using the ``pip``, or ``pip3``, tool for downloading python
> +  packages.
> +
>  * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter
>    for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case.
>  
> -- 
> 2.20.1
>