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+Less of a deprecation and more of a heads up: the next release of ``attrs`` will introduce an ``attrs`` namespace.
+That means that you'll finally be able to run ``import attrs`` with new functions that aren't cute abbreviations and that will carry better defaults.
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+This should not break any of your code, because project-local packages have priority before installed ones.
+If this is a problem for you for some reason, please report it to our bug tracker and we'll figure something out.
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+The old ``attr`` namespace isn't going anywhere and its defaults are not changing – this is a purely additive measure.
+Please check out the linked issue for more details.