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Why do they need to be maintained? Just leave them as is.

• ciupicri 4y ago
  Because supposedly people will report bugs for them and someone will need to fix them.
  • xigoi 4y ago
    “Sorry, we don't fix bugs in deprecated code. Closed.”
    • scott_s 4y ago
      “Deprecated” usually implies intent to remove. Regardless, even dealing with such rejections is a support burden. And security vulnerabilities will tend to be fixed, even in deprecated code.
• slig 4y ago
  Code rots.
• samus 4y ago
  Apart from requiring security fixes, they also sometimes block changes and newer features. At that point, the maintainers might have to choose between breaking the obsolete module or shelfing the feature/fix. Deprecations are the way to indicate that support for the module will be eventually dropped. There is no reason to leave those modules there if they cannot be relied on.