PEP 4 should say something about the standard library

[sjoerdmullender]

BPO	8090
Nosy	@sjoerdmullender, @birkenfeld, @briancurtin

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[sjoerdmullender]

When a module or feature is deprecated, all uses of the deprecated module/feature should be removed from the non-deprecated part of the distribution (and, I would argue, also from the other deprecated modules).
I think PEP-4 should say something to this effect.

I suggest adding a sentence to the section "Procedure for declaring a module deprecated", something like: "The proposal MUST include patches to remove any use of the deprecated module from the standard library."

[briancurtin]

I don't really think this is a documentation bug, more of an issue you have with the policy, in which case this is better being discussed on python-dev.

[sjoerdmullender]

It was discussed on python-dev. It was suggested to submit a bug report on PEP-4. See http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-February/097772.html.

[python-dev]

New changeset f7e3f6a53823 by Georg Brandl in branch 'default':
PEP-4: convert to reST, update SourceForge -> bugs.python.org, update DeprecationWarning policy
http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/f7e3f6a53823