The package() function has been around since pacman-3.3 and has
significant advantages including limited fakeroot usage and correct
repackaging. The ability to use PKGBUILDs without a package function
will be removed in a future release.

Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
---
scripts/makepkg.sh.in | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
index 8a300cb..337ada9 100644
--- a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
+++ b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
@@ -2785,6 +2785,10 @@ fi
fullver=$(get_full_version)
msg "$(gettext "Making package: %s")" "$pkgbase $fullver ($(date))"

+if (( !PKGFUNC && !SPLITPKG )); then
+ warning "$(gettext "Using a %s without a %s function is deprecated.")" "$BUILDSCRIPT" "package()"
+fi
+
# if we are creating a source-only package, go no further
if (( SOURCEONLY )); then
if [[ -f $SRCPKGDEST/${pkgbase}-${fullver}${SRCEXT} ]]
--
1.7.12.1