From be04ecad7fe572acbbcd4fc75e52d1d8dba097ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rnveach <rveach02@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 15:45:58 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #2451: deprecated AbstractDeclarationCollector

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

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/AbstractDeclarationCollector.java b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/AbstractDeclarationCollector.java
index 372ad0685..933ae2bd3 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/AbstractDeclarationCollector.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/AbstractDeclarationCollector.java
@@ -35,9 +35,11 @@ import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.utils.ScopeUtils;
 /**
  * Abstract class for checks which need to collect information about
  * declared members/parameters/variables.
- *
+ * @deprecated Checkstyle will not support abstract checks anymore. Use {@link Check} instead.
  * @author o_sukhodolsky
+ * @noinspection AbstractClassNeverImplemented
  */
+@Deprecated
 public abstract class AbstractDeclarationCollector extends Check {
     /**
      * Tree of all the parsed frames.