--- a/cubicweb/cwctl.py	Fri Nov 18 18:15:14 2016 +0100
+++ b/cubicweb/cwctl.py	Thu Nov 24 15:39:52 2016 +0100
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# copyright 2003-2014 LOGILAB S.A. (Paris, FRANCE), all rights reserved.
+# copyright 2003-2016 LOGILAB S.A. (Paris, FRANCE), all rights reserved.
 # contact http://www.logilab.fr/ -- mailto:contact@logilab.fr
 #
 # This file is part of CubicWeb.
@@ -103,13 +103,6 @@
         )
     actionverb = None
 
-    @deprecated('[3.22] startorder is not used any more')
-    def ordered_instances(self):
-        """return list of known instances
-        """
-        regdir = cwcfg.instances_dir()
-        return list_instances(regdir)
-
     def run(self, args):
         """run the <command>_method on each argument (a list of instance
         identifiers)

--- a/cubicweb/pyramid/pyramidctl.py	Fri Nov 18 18:15:14 2016 +0100
+++ b/cubicweb/pyramid/pyramidctl.py	Thu Nov 24 15:39:52 2016 +0100
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 import threading
 import subprocess
 
-from cubicweb import BadCommandUsage, ExecutionError
+from cubicweb import ExecutionError
 from cubicweb.cwconfig import CubicWebConfiguration as cwcfg
 from cubicweb.cwctl import CWCTL, InstanceCommand, init_cmdline_log_threshold
 from cubicweb.pyramid import wsgi_application_from_cwconfig
@@ -99,15 +99,6 @@
     def info(self, msg):
         print('INFO - %s' % msg)
 
-    def ordered_instances(self):
-        instances = super(PyramidStartHandler, self).ordered_instances()
-        if (self['debug-mode'] or self['debug'] or self['reload']) \
-                and len(instances) > 1:
-            raise BadCommandUsage(
-                '--debug-mode, --debug and --reload can be used on a single '
-                'instance only')
-        return instances
-
     def quote_first_command_arg(self, arg):
         """
         There's a bug in Windows when running an executable that's