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diff --git a/Source/cmPolicies.cxx b/Source/cmPolicies.cxx
index 837557b..da3edd4 100644
--- a/Source/cmPolicies.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmPolicies.cxx
@@ -275,6 +275,22 @@ std::string cmPolicies::GetPolicyWarning(cmPolicies::PolicyID id)
return msg.str();
}
+std::string cmPolicies::GetPolicyDeprecatedWarning(cmPolicies::PolicyID id)
+{
+ std::ostringstream msg;
+ /* clang-format off */
+ msg <<
+ "The OLD behavior for policy " << idToString(id) << " "
+ "will be removed from a future version of CMake.\n"
+ "The cmake-policies(7) manual explains that the OLD behaviors of all "
+ "policies are deprecated and that a policy should be set to OLD only "
+ "under specific short-term circumstances. Projects should be ported "
+ "to the NEW behavior and not rely on setting a policy to OLD."
+ ;
+ /* clang-format on */
+ return msg.str();
+}
+
///! return an error string for when a required policy is unspecified
std::string cmPolicies::GetRequiredPolicyError(cmPolicies::PolicyID id)
{