On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 4:11 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> We cannot just delete them, we need to obsolete them first.  They were
> with us for far too long.

I find the argument less than compelling, given the fact that the functions
have been known not to work well in some cases for the past six years or so.

But you're the boss.

Here's the patch, split in three parts for clarity.