[Python-Dev] Breaking undocumented API

Mon Nov 8 19:44:22 CET 2010

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
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> So you have a bug in the module that can only be fixed in a function you
> want to deprecate?
>
No, I have a bug in a function that I want to deprecate.  You said I
don't need to fix it if I add a deprecation warning.  However, as far
as I know, deprecation warnings are not backported  to maintenance
branches while bug fixes are.  So the specific question is: there is a
bug in trace.find_strings() - should it be fixed in 3.1-maint?