diff --git a/inc/init.php b/inc/init.php
index d3b203ef6163e3a6812e8b76b785d78932d15e93..b3df5aaaadefc6f452606580ba2ac4f80c80e7e2 100644
--- a/inc/init.php
+++ b/inc/init.php
@@ -114,13 +114,21 @@ if (!defined('DOKU_COOKIE')) define('DOKU_COOKIE', 'DW'.md5(DOKU_REL.(($conf['se
 // define main script
 if(!defined('DOKU_SCRIPT')) define('DOKU_SCRIPT','doku.php');
 
-// DEPRECATED, use tpl_basedir() instead
-if(!defined('DOKU_TPL')) define('DOKU_TPL',
-        DOKU_BASE.'lib/tpl/'.$conf['template'].'/');
+if(!defined('DOKU_TPL')) {
+    /**
+     * @deprecated 2012-10-13 replaced by more dynamic method
+     * @see tpl_basedir()
+     */
+    define('DOKU_TPL', DOKU_BASE.'lib/tpl/'.$conf['template'].'/');
+}
 
-// DEPRECATED, use tpl_incdir() instead
-if(!defined('DOKU_TPLINC')) define('DOKU_TPLINC',
-        DOKU_INC.'lib/tpl/'.$conf['template'].'/');
+if(!defined('DOKU_TPLINC')) {
+    /**
+     * @deprecated 2012-10-13 replaced by more dynamic method
+     * @see tpl_incdir()
+     */
+    define('DOKU_TPLINC', DOKU_INC.'lib/tpl/'.$conf['template'].'/');
+}
 
 // make session rewrites XHTML compliant
 @ini_set('arg_separator.output', '&');