Change 151576 had a related patch set uploaded by John Vandenberg:
Add {{Filehistory}} support to imagetransfer

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/151576

I would not support site-specific templates in the framework.

site-specific variants are common for this framework is a normal way for implementing scripts for different projects. We have a lot of them and use differen ways to catch them, e.g. via wikidata, dictionaries in scripts or in family files and unfortunately some templates via twn which indeed is problematic.

In T71067#1385916, @Ricordisamoa wrote:

I would not support site-specific templates in the framework.

I can appreciate that opinion. However when global templates T6547: Support crosswiki template inclusion (transclusion => interwiki templates, etc.) lands in Wikimedia, they wont be site-specific here. They are already able to be loaded dynamically by other wikis. T14306: Implement MediaWiki Help Repository (fetching Help: pages from MediaWiki.org or Meta, similar to file description pages from Commons) will make that a commonly used feature.

I also dont want to make this problem a Family configuration option, but it may be a good use of @XZise' JSON settings solution (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/201446/)

As a path forward, how about we deprecate getFileVersionHistoryTable, and the new wiki-table is generated in imagetransfer, which is the only place it is used in core and compat.

In T71067#1386986, @jayvdb wrote:

As a path forward, how about we deprecate getFileVersionHistoryTable, and the new wiki-table is generated in imagetransfer, which is the only place it is used in core and compat.

Makes sense.