Investigate deprecated fields/types in the code
Author: jamietannaCreated Sep 15, 2026Updated Sep 15, 2026
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Via Claude Sonnet 5:
Broadening beyond user-facing config to internal JSDoc
@deprecatedmarkers turned up more (the epic's own description says it's meant to track all deprecations, not just user-facing ones):Already has a tracking issue, but not yet linked to #40847:
LegacyAdminConfiginterface (lib/config/types.ts:287-292) — JSDoc points straight at #39693 ("MigrateLegacyAdminConfigintoRepoGlobalConfig"), which is open but has no parent. Same situation as #40852 was — want me to link it now?Internal deprecated code with no issue at all — genuine candidates:
GlobalOnlyConfigLegacyinterface (lib/config/types.ts:186-187) —@deprecated use RepoGlobalConfig instead, no tracking issue.Http.headJson()(lib/util/http/http.ts:632-637) —@deprecated use head instead, still has one live internal caller:lib/modules/platform/github/index.ts:169.Dead code — probably don't even need a tracking issue, just delete directly:
Http.getYamlUnchecked()(lib/util/http/http.ts:477-480) — marked deprecated, and grep shows zero call sites anywhere outside its own definition.BranchConfig.committedFiles(lib/workers/types.ts:169-172) —@deprecated never set, comment literally asks "??? never set".BranchUpgradeConfig.updateTypes(lib/modules/manager/types.ts:143-147) —@deprecated Never set?.renovateJsonPresentfield (lib/config/types.ts:448-452) —@deprecated, comment asks "What is this used for?".- OTel span attribute
repository(lib/workers/global/index.ts:285) —@deprecated TODO remove, superseded by theATTR_VCS_*attributes right next to it.The dead-field/dead-method ones are worth a quick "does anything actually reference this" pass (I only checked
getYamlUnchecked/headJson) before deleting — happy to verify the rest and knock out a small cleanup PR if you want, rather than filing issues for things nobody uses.
Source: renovatebot/renovate