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16519	mimetype used with HttpResponse should be deprecated	Paul McMillan	Yaşar Arabacı	"Passing the `mimetype` argument when instantiating `HttpResponse` should raise a `DeprecationWarning`.

The mimetype argument has been deprecated via comment in the code for 4 years: https://code.djangoproject.com/changeset/5844/django/trunk/django/http/__init__.py

It's about time we actually raised a `DeprecationWarning` and remove the thing ASAP. If we swap the position of the mimetype and content_type arguments, code the relies on argument position will continue to function without raising the warning. The only code that will need to be changed is code that explicitly uses the mimetype kwarg (including a bunch of django tests).

This situation is long-lived enough to bypass the PendingDeprecationWarning."	Cleanup/optimization	closed	HTTP handling	1.3	Normal	fixed		Yaşar Arabacı	Accepted	1	0	0	1	1	0