releasing package apt version 1.1~exp1

[apt.git] / apt-pkg / cacheiterators.h

diff --git a/apt-pkg/cacheiterators.h b/apt-pkg/cacheiterators.h
index 2fdf8404ddea9667fb78acedce6370b399c38f23..f2aae7272f4f1b9677951654041c996bcfa2fbb2 100644 (file)
--- a/apt-pkg/cacheiterators.h
+++ b/apt-pkg/cacheiterators.h
@@ -160,7 +160,11 @@ class pkgCache::PkgIterator: public Iterator<Package, PkgIterator> {
 
        // Accessors
        inline const char *Name() const {return S->Name == 0?0:Owner->StrP + S->Name;}
-       inline const char *Section() const {return S->Section == 0?0:Owner->StrP + S->Section;}
+       // Versions have sections - and packages can have different versions with different sections
+       // so this interface is broken by design. It used to return the section of the "first parsed
+       // package stanza", but as this can potentially be anything it now returns the section of the
+       // newest version instead (if any). aka: Run as fast as you can to Version.Section().
+       APT_DEPRECATED const char *Section() const;
        inline bool Purge() const {return S->CurrentState == pkgCache::State::Purge ||
                (S->CurrentVer == 0 && S->CurrentState == pkgCache::State::NotInstalled);}
        inline const char *Arch() const {return S->Arch == 0?0:Owner->StrP + S->Arch;}