[Python-Dev] Breaking undocumented API

[Michael Foord]

> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Michael Foord<fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>  wrote:
> ..
>> 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?
My opinion would be:

* No we don't backport the deprecation warning
* No we don't need to fix the bug

Others may disagree. (Logic being that we won't fix the bug in 3.2, if 
we fixed it in 2.7 then we would have to fix it in 3.2. Therefore we 
shouldn't fix in 2.7.)

Michael



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