[Python-ideas] Why make ‘shutil.destinsrc’ private?

[Terry Reedy]

On 7/14/2011 6:59 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Benjamin Peterson<benjamin at python.org>
> writes:
>
>> Ben Finney<ben+python at ...>  writes:
>>> Benjamin, what was the rationale for making ‘shutil.destinsrc’ no longer
>>> part of the public API?
>>
>> Please see http://bugs.python.org/issue2047
>
> Thank you. (Has the Python development team considered a policy of
> noting bug report URLs in the commits that address those bug reports?
> That would have made the forensic work easier.)

This is now standard. If 'issue #xxxx' appears in the commit message, a 
message reporting the commit is auto-generated and sent to the tracker. 
Since this saves developer effort, it usually is done.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy