Github user aarondav commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-spark/pull/604#discussion_r9781736 Went ahead and made these private[spark]. It seems unlikely that anyone else would use these methods, and making them private means that the type parameter reordering and ClassTag removal is not a compatibility issue.
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