Lack of deprecation period for short option changes

[Aaron Bentley]

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James Westby wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The recent short option changes seemed to go in without a deprecation
> period. Was this intended? Was the SHORT_OPTIONS[] thing not meant for
> plugins to use?

These changes break bzrtools shell, for example, because
Option.short_name is no longer callable.  I think a deprecation period
would be appropriate, unless there are overriding concerns.

Aaron
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