Github user johnboiles commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/1461
> Why are they deprecated? I probably only overlook sth, so bear with me
That's a great question. Looks like they were marked deprecated by
@dcelasun in #1382 as a part of THRIFT-4285. That discussion predates my
involvement in Thrift.
> Do we have a JIRA Ticket for this? If not, could you create one?
Thanks for the nudge, I was just being lazy. Created as THRIFT-4447---
