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Old names for API that was made public should stay until deprecation
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encukou committed Apr 17, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -236,9 +236,9 @@ Moving an API from unstable to public
function calling the new function).
* Announce the change in What's New.

The old name should continue to be available until an incompatible change is
made.
There's no need to deprecate it (it was unstable to begin with),
The old name should remain available until the
new public name is deprecated or removed.
There's no need to deprecate the old name (it was unstable to begin with),
but there's also no need to break working code just because some function
is now ready for a wider audience.

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