I was asked to shepherd the proposal #167 (Deprecated Entities, https://github.com/nineonine/ghc-proposals/blob/depr-entities/proposals/0000-deprecated-entities.rst). It is proposed to extend (nonpositional) DEPRECATED pragma with the two specifiers to disambiguate deprecating named type-level and value-level things. In its current formulation, the proposal suggests to use the specifiers "type" for type-level things and "pattern" for value-level things as follows:

data Bar = Bar

{-# DEPRECATED type Bar "Don't use type Bar" #-} 

data Baz = Baz

{-# DEPRECATED pattern Baz "Don't use data constructor Baz" #-}

Using this pragma without specifiers should mean deprecating both (as is works now).

After discussing this proposal within the committee (see https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-steering-committee/2019-February/000894.html), I recommend acceptance with one change, namely using "data" instead of "pattern" for deprecating value-level things. 

Reasons for choosing "data":

* it's a reserved keyword (as opposed to "value", which is another option)

* we are deprecating data constructors here

* it just feels right (sorry!)

Reasons against "data":

* it can be confusing whether we mean data type or data constructor

* we use "value" and "pattern" in other places meaning basically the same thing

If the committee decides to go this way, then the wider community may think about other proposals, such as

* adding positional DEPRECATED pragmas (including class instances deprecation)

* fixing inconsistencies with the fixity declarations (https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0008-type-infix.rst) and updating ExplicitNamespaces in import/export lists

* deprecating usage of nonpositional DEPRECATED pragma without the specifiers

Silence is understood as agreement. 

Regards, 

Vitaly