The fix for JDK-6481080 adds wording to the effect that the @Deprecated annotation on a variety of program elements "has no effect." The intent here is that @Deprecated in these locations does not have the effect of causing the compiler to emit warnings.

This should be clarified. For packages, at least, @Deprecated on a package will cause the annotation to be compiled into the class and be made available at runtime, since @Deprecated has runtime retention.

It may indeed be that @Deprected on a local variable or method parameter has no effect whatsoever. It might be worth clarifying that, too.