Backport 1.23 documenting impending deprecation in favor to the email

package.

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libmimetools.tex b/Doc/lib/libmimetools.tex
index e8d8155ea8528dec6f2e952db4f69bc140efa65b..7f83659eaf8da849a1c4a591e27f5d7f592467ab 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/lib/libmimetools.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libmimetools.tex
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
 \declaremodule{standard}{mimetools}
 \modulesynopsis{Tools for parsing MIME-style message bodies.}
 
+\deprecated{2.3}{The \refmodule{email} package should be used in
+                 preference to the \module{mimetools} module.  This
+                 module is present only to maintain backward
+                 compatibility.}
 
 This module defines a subclass of the
 \refmodule{rfc822}\refstmodindex{rfc822} module's