[MERGE] fix up test_bench_history

[Martin Pool]

On 22 Aug 2006, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> > This seems more like a bug fix to the assertDeprecated API, because I
> > think you meant for the API to do this all along. Right?
> 
> Right.
> 
> > Hence, it is a real bugfix, not an API change, and thus is +1 for 0.10.
> 
> Thanks, submitted.

It's OK with me for 0.10 if it fixes the API to do what it should.  

It seems a little strange to me to have an assert* routine return the
result of the thing it called.  If the point is to call the thing and
incidentally check it's deprecated perhaps it should be
self.callDeprecated(..)?

-- 
Martin