In Pharo 5.0 I see deprecated classes stripped of all methods and variables defined in a package like... ��

Object subclass: #NBExternalStructure

instanceVariableNames: ''

classVariableNames: ''

package: 'Deprecated50'

It was was useful having these remain to facilitate loading Pharo 4.0's TalkFFI for a first look at porting it to Pharo 5.0.�� Somewhat expectedly, the class initialization fails with...��

�� MessageNotUnderstood: CXIdxDeclInfoStruct class>>rebuildFieldAccessors

(since that method used to be in NBExternalStructure

due to ��"NBExternalStructure subclass: #CXIdxDeclInfoStruct)

But it would be nicer to get a Deprecated message rather than a MNU, initially something simple like this...

�� Deprecated subclass: #NBExternalStructure

�� Deprecated class >>��doesNotUnderstand:

�� DeprecatedError signal.

but maybe later something like...

�� Deprecated class >>��doesNotUnderstand:

�� Transcript crShow: self deprecationNotes.

�� DeprecatedError signal.

�� NBExternalStructure class >> deprecationNotes ��

�� ^ 'Blah-d-blah. Use UFFIXxxxxx instead'.

cheers -ben