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[Johannes Schönberger]

> Reading travis logs, it seems we are using deprecated functions in
> tests. I think it's related to recent deprecations but I didn't looked
> in details yet. Are you aware of that, and do you plan to fix this for
> the next release?

I filed another issue which removes all deprecated functions that are due for 0.9. The rest of the deprecated function calls used in tests should be removed when their corresponding functions are removed in the 0.10 cycle imo…