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These utilities resulted in the platforms package to have the containerd
API as dependency. As this package is used in many parts of the code, as
well as external consumers, we should try to keep it light on dependencies,
with the potential to make it a standalone module.
These utilities were added in f3b7436b61,
which has not yet been included in a release, so skipping deprecation
and aliases for these.
Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
This directory contains the GRPC API definitions for containerd.
All defined services and messages have been aggregated into *.pb.txt
descriptors files in this directory. Definitions present here are considered
frozen after the release.
At release time, the current next.pb.txt file will be moved into place to
freeze the API changes for the minor version. For example, when 1.0.0 is
released, next.pb.txt should be moved to 1.0.txt. Notice that we leave off
the patch number, since the API will be completely locked down for a given
patch series.
We may find that by default, protobuf descriptors are too noisy to lock down API changes. In that case, we may filter out certain fields in the descriptors, possibly regenerating for old versions.
This process is similar to the process used to ensure backwards compatibility in Go.