Tried on Solaris-9 JDK 1.6.0-ea-b15

If a deprecated method is called from it's own main method, there is no warning. eg. See the following testcase, deprecated dep.doit() called from dep.main() does not give a warning. But if dep.doit() is called from another class foo.main(), it gives a warning.

Testcase:
class dep {
  /**
   *@deprecated test deprecation message from compiler
   * Compare to pre 1.5 by comment out deprecated annotation
   */
   @Deprecated
   public void doit(){
     String msg = "doit that takes no args";
     System.out.println(msg);
   }

  /**
   *@deprecated test deprecation message from compiler
   * Compare to pre 1.5 by comment out deprecated annotation
   */
   @Deprecated
   public void doit(String msg){
     System.out.println(msg);
   }

   //This does NOT get deprecation warnings.
   public static void main(String[] args) {
    dep d = new dep();
    d.doit();
    d.doit("called from dep's main");
   }
}

public class foo {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    dep d = new dep();
    d.doit("called from foo's main");
  }
}

Execute:
 javac -Xlint:deprecation foo.java

Output :
foo.java:33: warning: [deprecation] doit(java.lang.String) in dep has been deprecated
    d.doit("called from foo's main");
     ^
1 warning



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