[Distutils] Distutils roadmap of refactoring for 2.7

[P.J. Eby]

At 01:00 PM 1/23/2010 +0100, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>3 - dir_util, archive_util and file_util are going to be removed in
>favor of calls to shutil.

By removed, do you simply mean that distutils will stop using them, 
but the modules will still be there?  (i.e., deprecated and phased 
out, rather than simply dropped from existence altogether.)