Fixed #6188, #6304, #6618, #6969, #8758, #8989, #10334, #11069, #11973 and #12403 -- Modified the syndication framework to use class-based views. Thanks to Ben Firshman for his work on this patch.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@12338 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

docs/internals/deprecation.txt

@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ their deprecation, as per the :ref:`Django deprecation policy
         * The ability to use a function-based test runners will be removed,
           along with the ``django.test.simple.run_tests()`` test runner.
 
+        * The ``views.feed()`` view and ``feeds.Feed`` class in
+          ``django.contrib.syndication`` have been deprecated since the 1.2
+          release. The class-based view ``views.Feed`` should be used instead.
+
     * 2.0
         * ``django.views.defaults.shortcut()``. This function has been moved
           to ``django.contrib.contenttypes.views.shortcut()`` as part of the