From c2815335df7d93040f9e867ec83bddde3952d0c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pierre Sassoulas <pierre.sassoulas@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 21:23:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] [deprecation] Message.location must be a
 'MessageLocationTuple'

---
 doc/whatsnew/fragments/8476.internal |  4 ++++
 pylint/message/message.py            | 20 +-------------------
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 doc/whatsnew/fragments/8476.internal

diff --git a/doc/whatsnew/fragments/8476.internal b/doc/whatsnew/fragments/8476.internal
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a784379870
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/whatsnew/fragments/8476.internal
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Following a deprecation period, the ``location`` argument of the
+``Message`` class must now be a ``MessageLocationTuple``.
+
+Refs #8476
diff --git a/pylint/message/message.py b/pylint/message/message.py
index 23dd6c082d..0fd02c369b 100644
--- a/pylint/message/message.py
+++ b/pylint/message/message.py
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 from dataclasses import asdict, dataclass
-from warnings import warn
 
 from pylint.constants import MSG_TYPES
 from pylint.interfaces import UNDEFINED, Confidence
@@ -35,27 +34,10 @@ def __init__(
         self,
         msg_id: str,
         symbol: str,
-        location: tuple[str, str, str, str, int, int] | MessageLocationTuple,
+        location: MessageLocationTuple,
         msg: str,
         confidence: Confidence | None,
     ) -> None:
-        if not isinstance(location, MessageLocationTuple):
-            warn(
-                "In pylint 3.0, Messages will only accept a MessageLocationTuple as location parameter",
-                DeprecationWarning,
-                stacklevel=2,
-            )
-            location = MessageLocationTuple(
-                location[0],
-                location[1],
-                location[2],
-                location[3],
-                location[4],
-                location[5],
-                None,
-                None,
-            )
-
         self.msg_id = msg_id
         self.symbol = symbol
         self.msg = msg

From 8b44eb001af309cd68aef8f181b0be04f79bd229 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pierre Sassoulas <pierre.sassoulas@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 21:34:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Proper issue number

---
 doc/whatsnew/fragments/{8476.internal => 8477.internal} | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
 rename doc/whatsnew/fragments/{8476.internal => 8477.internal} (91%)

diff --git a/doc/whatsnew/fragments/8476.internal b/doc/whatsnew/fragments/8477.internal
similarity index 91%
rename from doc/whatsnew/fragments/8476.internal
rename to doc/whatsnew/fragments/8477.internal
index a784379870..d7b0435210 100644
--- a/doc/whatsnew/fragments/8476.internal
+++ b/doc/whatsnew/fragments/8477.internal
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Following a deprecation period, the ``location`` argument of the
 ``Message`` class must now be a ``MessageLocationTuple``.
 
-Refs #8476
+Refs #8477