Re: Policy for obsolete funcitons

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2023 13:18:56 -0400
> 
> doing some maintanance in the native compiler I'd like to rename some
> function and possibly remove some other.
> 
> What's the policy for renaming o removing functions which never meant to
> be used as public interfaces (assuming this last bit makes any
> difference)?
> 
> Can we just do it or we need to obsolete the one we want to remove and
> alias the ones that gets renamed?

If the function had a "--" in its name, it is an internal one and can
be renamed.  Otherwise, we need to add an obsolete alias with the old
name.

> In case how long is the obsolete period before we can clean them-up?

Several major releases.