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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] PCI: ABI change request for adding new
	field in rte_pci_id structure
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:34:35 +0100
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2016-02-16 10:11, Bruce Richardson:
> Thomas, is there some reason why the deprecation notices are not called out in
> the release notes for a new release? Why are they kept separately?

No strong reason.
It is part of the release notes but not in the versioned section.
Probably because there is no interest in keeping the history of planned
deprecations in the release notes. When the API/ABI is changed, the deprecation
notice is replaced by an entry in the versioned section.