[pacman-dev] alpm_db_get_pkgcache and alpm_db_get_grpcache rename

[Xavier]

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Sebastian Nowicki <sebnow at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently the alpm_db_get_{pkg,grp}cache() functions were renamed to
> alpm_db_get_{pkg,grp}cache()[1]. Since this is a public API change,
> shouldn't the old functions perhaps simply be deprecated and "alias" the new
> functions, instead of dropping them completely? I'd imagine this would
> potentially break some front-ends if libalpm gets updated, as was the case
> with a project of mine.
>
> [1]: commit: d05882db9e417244fa580c4697b45333faffcc79
>

This will only appear in 3.3 which does not even have any clear
roadmap so which looks quite far away from now.
It won't be in the next 3.2.2 release.