diff --git a/src/io/ioutil/ioutil.go b/src/io/ioutil/ioutil.go
index 45682b89c9..9921c2ae50 100644
--- a/src/io/ioutil/ioutil.go
+++ b/src/io/ioutil/ioutil.go
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 // Package ioutil implements some I/O utility functions.
 //
-// As of Go 1.16, the same functionality is now provided
+// Deprecated: As of Go 1.16, the same functionality is now provided
 // by package io or package os, and those implementations
 // should be preferred in new code.
 // See the specific function documentation for details.
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import (
 // defined to read from src until EOF, it does not treat an EOF from Read
 // as an error to be reported.
 //
-// As of Go 1.16, this function simply calls io.ReadAll.
+// Deprecated: As of Go 1.16, this function simply calls io.ReadAll.
 func ReadAll(r io.Reader) ([]byte, error) {
 	return io.ReadAll(r)
 }
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ func ReadAll(r io.Reader) ([]byte, error) {
 // reads the whole file, it does not treat an EOF from Read as an error
 // to be reported.
 //
-// As of Go 1.16, this function simply calls os.ReadFile.
+// Deprecated: As of Go 1.16, this function simply calls os.ReadFile.
 func ReadFile(filename string) ([]byte, error) {
 	return os.ReadFile(filename)
 }
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ func ReadFile(filename string) ([]byte, error) {
 // If the file does not exist, WriteFile creates it with permissions perm
 // (before umask); otherwise WriteFile truncates it before writing, without changing permissions.
 //
-// As of Go 1.16, this function simply calls os.WriteFile.
+// Deprecated: As of Go 1.16, this function simply calls os.WriteFile.
 func WriteFile(filename string, data []byte, perm fs.FileMode) error {
 	return os.WriteFile(filename, data, perm)
 }
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ func WriteFile(filename string, data []byte, perm fs.FileMode) error {
 // sorted by filename. If an error occurs reading the directory,
 // ReadDir returns no directory entries along with the error.
 //
-// As of Go 1.16, os.ReadDir is a more efficient and correct choice:
+// Deprecated: As of Go 1.16, os.ReadDir is a more efficient and correct choice:
 // it returns a list of fs.DirEntry instead of fs.FileInfo,
 // and it returns partial results in the case of an error
 // midway through reading a directory.
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ func ReadDir(dirname string) ([]fs.FileInfo, error) {
 // NopCloser returns a ReadCloser with a no-op Close method wrapping
 // the provided Reader r.
 //
-// As of Go 1.16, this function simply calls io.NopCloser.
+// Deprecated: As of Go 1.16, this function simply calls io.NopCloser.
 func NopCloser(r io.Reader) io.ReadCloser {
 	return io.NopCloser(r)
 }
@@ -80,5 +80,5 @@ func NopCloser(r io.Reader) io.ReadCloser {
 // Discard is an io.Writer on which all Write calls succeed
 // without doing anything.
 //
-// As of Go 1.16, this value is simply io.Discard.
+// Deprecated: As of Go 1.16, this value is simply io.Discard.
 var Discard io.Writer = io.Discard