[GHC] #3427: control what sort of entity a deprecated pragma applies to

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#3427: control what sort of entity a deprecated pragma applies to
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        Reporter:  igloo             |                Owner:  thoughtpolice
            Type:  feature request   |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:  8.2.1
       Component:  Compiler          |              Version:  6.10.4
      Resolution:                    |             Keywords:  deprecate
                                     |  warning
Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple  |         Architecture:
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 Type of failure:  None/Unknown      |            Test Case:
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Changes (by thoughtpolice):

 * owner:   => thoughtpolice
 * milestone:   => 8.2.1


Comment:

 By popular demand (read: me), I'm probably going to fix this, because it
 is super, super annoying in my `ed25519` library, where I want to
 deprecate some constructors, *not* types, but the types and constructors
 have the same name.

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