[TYPO3-dev] Why are there long-time deprecated functions still included in 4.3?

[Sebastian Gebhard]

Hi *,

afaik a deprecated method is intented to be removed within 2 sub-versions (e.g. from 4.1 to 4.3).
But taking a look at the core there is a lot of stuff around which has exceeded that limit.

Examples?

t3lib_div::GPvar - deprecated since 3.6
t3lib_div::GParrayMerged - 3.7
t3lib_div::fixed_lgd - 4.1
t3lib_div::fixed_lgd_pre - 4.1
t3lib_div::breakTextForEmail - 4.1
t3lib_div::danish_strtoupper - 3.5 (keep in, in memory of TYPO3s danish origin? ;) )
t3lib_div::convUmlauts - 4.1

and so on..

Shouldn't all this get removed in the current trunk?
At least it would slim down huge classes like t3lib_div which would make life easier to find its 
useful methods.

Kind regards,
Sebastian