Deprecate overlapping /data merges (or something)

[bep]

See #4379

I need to check this code to know how this work, but there are obvious cases in there that was not intended (at least not from me). WARN statements should be only for "things that the user should do something about" -- and in this case we should eventually turn them into an ERROR.

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