doc update

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 636247c..11d6c27 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ GNU Libtasn1 NEWS                                     -*- outline -*-
 * Noteworthy changes in release 3.6 (unreleased) [stable]
 - Corrected an off-by-one error in ASN.1 DER tag decoding.
 - Several improvements and new safety checks on DER decoding.
-- asn1_der_decoding_element() is an alias to asn1_der_decoding().
+- Marked asn1_der_decoding_element() as deprecated. Use
+  asn1_der_decoding() instead.
+
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 3.5 (released 2014-05-01) [stable]
 - Correctly handle decoding of recursive CHOICE options.

diff --git a/lib/decoding.c b/lib/decoding.c
index 2d7b7ef..bd96d90 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/decoding.c
+++ b/lib/decoding.c
@@ -1501,7 +1501,8 @@ cleanup:
  * decoding procedure, the *@STRUCTURE is deleted and set equal to
  * %NULL.
  *
- * This function is deprecated. Use asn1_der_decoding() instead.
+ * This function is deprecated and may just be an alias to asn1_der_decoding
+ * in future versions. Use asn1_der_decoding() instead.
  *
  * Returns: %ASN1_SUCCESS if DER encoding OK, %ASN1_ELEMENT_NOT_FOUND
  *   if ELEMENT is %NULL or @elementName == NULL, and