From 10293b2cac3793b9ef163e593b480ad900cf2af9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: xqt <info@gno.de>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:14:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [cleanup] drop unused use_hard_category_redirects

- depreate BaseSite.use_hard_category_redirects
- remove Family.use_hard_category_redirects

Bug: T348953
Change-Id: Ifcbc0d8086c50d5c887f273f65f817af052a8621
---
 pywikibot/family.py         |  3 ---
 pywikibot/site/_basesite.py | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pywikibot/family.py b/pywikibot/family.py
index 52c6d3a0ea..93cd1dff6d 100644
--- a/pywikibot/family.py
+++ b/pywikibot/family.py
@@ -118,9 +118,6 @@ def instance(cls):
         '_default': []
     }
 
-    # A list of languages that use hard (not soft) category redirects
-    use_hard_category_redirects = []
-
     # A list of disambiguation template names in different languages
     disambiguationTemplates: Dict[str, Sequence[str]] = {
         '_default': []
diff --git a/pywikibot/site/_basesite.py b/pywikibot/site/_basesite.py
index ea47b94f71..8175ebec61 100644
--- a/pywikibot/site/_basesite.py
+++ b/pywikibot/site/_basesite.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
     ComparableMixin,
     SelfCallString,
     cached,
+    deprecated,
     first_upper,
     normalize_username,
 )
@@ -90,13 +91,23 @@ def __init__(self, code: str, fam=None, user=None) -> None:
 
         self._username = normalize_username(user)
 
-        self.use_hard_category_redirects = (
-            self.code in self.family.use_hard_category_redirects)
-
         # following are for use with lock_page and unlock_page methods
         self._pagemutex = threading.Condition()
         self._locked_pages = set()
 
+    @property
+    @deprecated(since='8.5.0')
+    def use_hard_category_redirects(self):
+        """Hard redirects are used for this site.
+
+        Originally create as property for future use for a proposal to
+        replace category redirect templates with hard redirects. This
+        was never implemented and is not used inside the framework.
+
+        .. deprecated:: 8.5
+        """
+        return False
+
     @property
     @cached
     def throttle(self):