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Support PEP-702 style deprecations

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Description

To document my deprecation cycles, I usually use the deprecated lib. It's as simple to use as this:

from deprecated.sphinx import deprecated

@deprecated(version='1.0', reason="This function will be removed soon")
def function_three():
    '''This is the function three'''

function_three()  # warns
help(function_three)

as the decorator is changing the result of the help method, it's automatically adding information if the documentation is build with api-doc. with autoapi, as you don't load the method but only parse them, I think this is just getting ignored.

Would you think of a way to implement a workaround either from here or directly from their repository ?

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Start with the deprecated.sphinx decorator example in the issue and trace how AutoAPI parses Python functions without importing them. Compare that behavior with api-doc's handling of the same deprecated function, then define a way for generated documentation to preserve the deprecation information and verify the resulting output.

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