Currently the JVMS spec for record doesn't allow a record component to be deprecated.
The are several languages, some that run on the JVM like Kotlin or Scala that have a similar concept of record components and for all of them they allow to deprecate it, it should be a no brainer to allow a record component to be deprecated but the current draft of the spec doesn't allow that [1]. The table 4.7-C the line about the Deprecated attribut should list component_info has possible location. regards, Rémi [1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~gbierman/jep359/jep359-20191031/specs/records-jvms.html#jvms-4.7
