Bozhidar Batsov wrote:

> Since the new functions were extracted from the modified function I wasn't
> sure if they needed mentioning.
> Basically in a situation like this I should list all symbols like this
> (sym1, sym2...): and write a unified summary regarding
> all of them, right?

I'd write something like:

(newfunc1, newfunc2): New functions, extracted from oldfunc.
(oldfunc): Split into several functions, to <do new stuff>.