Deprecate and remove captcha-old.py and plumbing
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	Reedy
	Feb 19 2024, 6:45 PM

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WMF has finally moved to not using captcha-old.py. Unclear at the moment if anyone else use(d|s) it, so whether there's much value keeping it

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Author	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Remove captcha-old.py and GenerateFancyCaptcha plumbing	Reedy	mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit	master	+2 -406
	Deprecate use of captcha-old.py	Reedy	mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit	master	+4 -1

Reedy triaged this task as Low priority.Feb 19 2024, 6:45 PM

Change 1004757 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy; author: Reedy):

[mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit@master] Deprecate use of captcha-old.py

Change 1004757 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit@master] Deprecate use of captcha-old.py

Change #1087999 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy; author: Reedy):

[mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit@master] Remove captcha-old.py and GenerateFancyCaptcha plumbing

Deprecation was in REL1_42 (and as such, REL1_43)...

Jdforrester-WMF assigned this task to Reedy.

Change #1087999 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit@master] Remove captcha-old.py and GenerateFancyCaptcha plumbing