Merge pull request #11252 from sivel/deprecated-warning

Display a warning when using a deprecated module

lib/ansible/plugins/__init__.py

@@ -247,6 +247,14 @@ class PluginLoader:
             for alias_name in ('_%s' % n for n in potential_names):
                 # We've already cached all the paths at this point
                 if alias_name in self._plugin_path_cache:
+                    if not os.path.islink(self._plugin_path_cache[alias_name]):
+                        d = Display()
+                        d.warning('%s has been deprecated, which means '
+                                  'it is kept for backwards compatibility '
+                                  'but usage is discouraged. The module '
+                                  'documentation details page may explain '
+                                  'more about this rationale.' %
+                                  name.lstrip('_'))
                     return self._plugin_path_cache[alias_name]
 
         return None