Comment 13 for bug 1493031

You've mentioned, that they are deprecated because they are broken and will fail under certain conditions (something with initargs etc etc). Please provide a reproducible test case before you deprecate these functions, so people relying on it doesn't have to take your word for that and eventually can think, if this brokeness may be fixed while preserving the API.

Otherwise deprecating them is an arbitrary choice without agreement with this particular API clients.