[Python-Dev] Breaking undocumented API

[Michael Foord]

> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Michael Foord
> <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>  wrote:
> ..
>> If you deprecate it then you don't *have* to fix bugs in it. If we know it
>> is used then we can't remove it without deprecation.
>>
> What about the maintenance branch?
So you have a bug in the module that can only be fixed in a function you 
want to deprecate?

It depends what approach you are taking in 3.2. If you are creating a 
new private function, in which you will fix the bug, but keeping an 
alias around to the old name so that you can deprecate it - then merely 
fixing the bug in the maintenance branch should be fine.

(If you're deprecating the function because it is unneeded then you 
don't need to fix bugs in the maintenance branch either - I guess no-one 
would complain if you did though.)

Michael

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