Surely we'll take patches removing *calls* to deprecated procs right now, my comments were in regard to removing the deprecated proc declarations themselves. We do need testing to make sure that the replacements work as advertised, of course, but you seem quite dogmatic on this point so I'm not too worried. We should work this towards OpenACS 5 (what we've called 4.7 in the past, i.e. our next big release early this summer) as was mentioned above.
