[Migrating from https://bugs.python.org/issue44701]

Would it be interesting to create a @deprecated decorator to avoid adding 
warnings.warn("deprecation message", DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2) in 
methods body?

Using the decorator approach to indicate depreciation would make the methods 
cleaner (leaving only their responsibilities in the body) and would be easier 
to identify, as the cue would be close to the method signature and not mixed 
with the logic inside the body.

in some cases it will still be necessary to put warnings.warn (..) inside the 
body of functions/methods because of some message display condition, or we 
could also express the message display condition in the decorator in 
@deprecated itself. But it would be interesting to have the possibility of not 
putting this inside the method body. Even the decorator can come from the 
notices module.

Example:

(Before)

def check_metadata(self):
        """Deprecated API."""
        warn("distutils.command.register.check_metadata is deprecated, \
              use the check command instead", PendingDeprecationWarning)
        check = self.distribution.get_command_obj('check')
        check.ensure_finalized()
        check.strict = self.strict
        check.restructuredtext = 1
        check.run()

(after)

@deprecated("distutils.command.register.check_metadata is deprecated, \
        use the check command instead")
def check_metadata(self):
  """Deprecated API."""
  check = self.distribution.get_command_obj('check')
  check.ensure_finalized()
  check.strict = self.strict
  check.restructuredtext = 1
  check.run()
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