Github user dcelasun commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/1461
> Why are they deprecated? I probably only overlook sth, so bear with me
My apologies, it's an unfortunate result of the patch changing authors and
things getting mixed up in the process. I should have removed the deprecated
comments, especially since those constructors *are* compatible.
The bugfix looks good.---
