evolve: add function to deprecate an alias
When cleaning up the UI for evolve we will deprecate old aliases,
but still want them to work for a while. This is a helper function
that will be called during the extension setup and has the ability
map an old alias to a new or canonical one.
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Copyright 2011 Peter Arrenbrecht <peter.arrenbrecht@gmail.com>
Logilab SA <contact@logilab.fr>
Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@ens-lyon.org>
Patrick Mezard <patrick@mezard.eu>
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