X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/a02db58fd50ef7fc2f0284852c6b3f98e458a232..34984adbae646b922c4759849097f047461c4a60:/apt-pkg/cacheiterators.h?ds=inline

diff --git a/apt-pkg/cacheiterators.h b/apt-pkg/cacheiterators.h
index 2fdf8404d..f2aae7272 100644
--- 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;}