> It's both. You can even break a feature and deprecate it for that reason. Deprecation comes down to communication. To deprecate something is to recommend aga

> It's both. You can even break a feature and deprecate it for that reason. Deprecation comes down to communication. To deprecate something is to recommend against it's use, but it must still be possible to use it without heeding the depreciation. Removing all the functionality of something and replacing it with a debug message is not depreciation, it's discontinuation. >> deprecation means that functionality is not materially altered from how it was before the deprecation. > No it doesn't. Maybe you really want it to, but it doesn't. Do you accept that your view of deprecation is not compatible with the definition in say, Wikipedia?