[phobos] Why "Scheduled for deprecation?"

[Jonathan M Davis]

I'm wondering what the point of marking modules as scheduled for deprecation 
really is - at least the way that we've been doing it. I can understand marking 
a module as scheduled for deprecation if there's a planned replacement but no 
actual replacement yet in order to warn programmers that that module will be 
going away. However, at present, we seem to be using it to just tell programmers 
to use a replacement which actually does exist. That being the case, why are we 
marking them as scheduled for deprecation rather than just deprecating them? 
Having the pragma tell people what to use instead is certainly good, but I don't 
quite get why we've been marking modules as scheduled to be deprecated when we 
have a clear replacement for them and are telling programmers to use the 
replacement. Why aren't we actually deprecating them and then just using the 
pragma to indicate which module to use instead?

- Jonathan M Davis