From 4b75ad4bd05363d24883f3187bcd56bcb88beed2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rnveach <rveach02@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 07:45:37 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #2451: deprecated AbstractFormatCheck

---
 .../tools/checkstyle/checks/AbstractFormatCheck.java          | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/AbstractFormatCheck.java b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/AbstractFormatCheck.java
index 1781a957e..7e7795520 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/AbstractFormatCheck.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/AbstractFormatCheck.java
@@ -31,9 +31,11 @@ import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.Check;
  * {@link Pattern regular expression}.  It
  * provides support for setting the regular
  * expression using the property name {@code format}.  </p>
- *
+ * @deprecated Checkstyle will not support abstract checks anymore. Use {@link Check} instead.
  * @author Oliver Burn
+ * @noinspection AbstractClassNeverImplemented
  */
+@Deprecated
 public abstract class AbstractFormatCheck
     extends Check {
     /** The flags to create the regular expression with. */