From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 02:38:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Backport 1.42 documenting impending deprecation in favor of the email
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.2b1~46
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=452fc854b18e6c3bc0c1aedc997201fcc8bf9e10;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Backport 1.42 documenting impending deprecation in favor of the email
module.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/librfc822.tex b/Doc/lib/librfc822.tex
index a54c7dc96a90..1277d8eb4302 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/librfc822.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/librfc822.tex
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@
 \declaremodule{standard}{rfc822}
 \modulesynopsis{Parse \rfc{2822} style mail messages.}
 
+\deprecated{2.3}{The \refmodule{email} package should be used in
+                 preference to the \module{rfc822} module.  This
+                 module is present only to maintain backward
+                 compatibility.}
+
 This module defines a class, \class{Message}, which represents an
 ``email message'' as defined by the Internet standard
 \rfc{2822}.\footnote{This module originally conformed to \rfc{822},