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Expand Up @@ -169,10 +169,11 @@ several releases:

3. Wait for the warning to appear in at least two minor Python
versions of the same major version, or one minor version in an older
major version (e.g. for a warning in Python 3.10.0, you either wait
until at least Python 3.12 or Python 4.0 to make the change).

It's fine to wait more than two releases, for example:
major version (e.g., for a warning in Python 3.10.0, you either wait
until at least Python 3.12 or Python 4.0 to make the change). It is
preferred, though, to wait 5 years before removal (e.g., warn starting in
Python 3.10, removal in 3.15; this happens to coincide with the current
lifetime of a minor release of Python).

- If the expected maintenance overhead and security risk of the
deprecated behavior is small (e.g. an old function is reimplemented
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