From: Jesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:03:23 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Update perldelta for 5.12 to warn vendors about deprecate.pm
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Update perldelta for 5.12 to warn vendors about deprecate.pm

(See [perl #72670])
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diff --git a/pod/perl5120delta.pod b/pod/perl5120delta.pod
index 4f17749..aebeedf 100644
--- a/pod/perl5120delta.pod
+++ b/pod/perl5120delta.pod
@@ -707,6 +707,17 @@ release, and should be installed from CPAN instead. Distributions on CPAN
 which require these should add them to their prerequisites. The core versions
 of these modules warnings will issue a deprecation warning.
 
+If you ship a packaged version of Perl, either alone or as part of a larger
+system, then you should carefully consider the reprecussions of core module
+deprecations.  You may want to consider shipping your default build of
+Perl with packages for some or all deprecated modules which install into
+C<vendor> or C<site> perl library directories. This will inhibit the 
+deprecation warnings.
+
+Alternatively, you may want to consider patching F<lib/deprecate.pm>
+to provide deprecation warnings specific to your packaging system or
+distribution of Perl.
+
 =over
 
 =item L<Class::ISA>