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I don't really get the purpose of a header like this, who is supposed to check it? It's not like developers casually check the headers returned by an API every week.
Write them a mail if you see deprecated functions being used by a certain API key, probably much more likely to reach somebody that way.
Also, TIL that the IETF deprecated the
X-prefix more than 10 years ago. Seems like that one didn't pan out.It makes sense to include so it's obvious in the readable HTTP request response. We use readable URLs and header names for the same purpose: So it is inspectable and understandable from that text format. You may leave deprecation information out, but then you're missing part of the resource description that you're addressing with the URL/URI.
Given a defined header it also allows you to add tooling and automation. There's no need for manual reading.