Github user revans2 commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/2761
@srdo Only comment it out in the thrift code. Delete the java code. The
only reason to comment it out instead of deleting it is so there is a visual
clue to anyone editing the file in the future that this API used to be here,
and we should avoid reusing it. Just on the off chance that we recreate the
same API but the semantics are incompatible with each other and we get really
odd errors.---
