Deprecate ArgumentParser(..., version=XXX, ...) as well as format_version() and print_version(). These should be replaced with .add_argument(..., action='version', ...).

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diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt
index 3c2b716..c4859b5 100644
--- a/NEWS.txt
+++ b/NEWS.txt
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ What's New in argparse 1.1
 - Issue #37: Stop treating two character alphanumeric flags as numbers.
 - Issue #38: Better error messages when 'dest' occurs twice for positional arguments.
 - Issue #39: Better error messages for invalid actions.
+- Issue #43: Deprecate ArgumentParser(..., version=XXX, ...) and friends.
 - Namespace objects now support "in" (i.e. __contains__).
 - Usage and help (but not version) messages are written to stdout, not stderr.