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Deprecation of Singleton Manifests

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Description

The singleton format has been deprecated in documentation only for more than a year. Since the time of its deprecation, all singleton manifests had, at one point or another, been scrubbed from the repository and updated to the multi-manifest format.

Moving forward, the deprecation will be strongly enforced, starting with a policy which simply warns about the deprecation. All users are encouraged to use tools like the Windows Package Manager Manifest Creator (a.k.a. WinGet-Create), YamlCreate.ps1, or Komac to create manifests compliant with the latest Manifest Specification

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reading the deprecated singleton schema at doc/manifest/schema/1.7.0/singleton.md and the current Manifest Specification under doc/manifest/. Review the referenced WinGet-Create, doc/tools/YamlCreate.md, and Komac resources; done should mean singleton manifests trigger the planned deprecation warning policy.

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Assessment

Domain
tooling
Issue type
Feature
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5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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