Re: [netmod] Does the YANG "status" statement inherit from its parent node?

[Phil Shafer <[e-mail]>]

Martin Bjorklund writes:
>But marking definition as obsolete in one module cannot automatically
>make definitions in *other* modules obsolete.
>
>(*) _maybe_ 7950 can be interpreted in this way when it says:
>
>   If a definition is "current", it MUST NOT reference a "deprecated" or
>   "obsolete" definition within the same module
>
>If you're in a good mood, you could argue that a child always
>"references" its parent.

That's a massively deforming interpretation of "references".

I'm not even sure this is a good rule at all.  Consider:

    leaf old-stuff {
        status deprecated;
        must not(../new-stuff);
    }
    leaf new-stuff {
        must not(../old-stuff);
    }

My new-stuff definitely references old-stuff which is deprecated,
but this is a _good_ data model and should not be "MUST NOT"d out
of existence.

Thanks,
 Phil