Deprecate hostname.pl with a warning

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/hostname.pl b/lib/hostname.pl
index 63eea8fee4..cc37d49a33 100644
--- a/lib/hostname.pl
+++ b/lib/hostname.pl
@@ -2,12 +2,18 @@
 #
 # This library is no longer being maintained, and is included for backward
 # compatibility with Perl 4 programs which may require it.
+# This legacy library is deprecated and will be removed in a future
+# release of perl.
 #
 # In particular, this should not be used as an example of modern Perl
 # programming techniques.
 #
 # Suggested alternative: Sys::Hostname
-#
+
+warn( "The 'hostname.pl' legacy library is deprecated and will be"
+      . " removed in the next major release of perl. Please use the"
+      . " Sys::Hostname module instead." );
+
 sub hostname
 {
 	local(*P,@tmp,$hostname,$_);