Remove deprecated --find-links option from pip freeze

news/9069.removal.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Remove deprecated ``--find-links`` option in ``pip freeze``

src/pip/_internal/commands/freeze.py

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 from pip._internal.cli.status_codes import SUCCESS
 from pip._internal.operations.freeze import freeze
 from pip._internal.utils.compat import stdlib_pkgs
-from pip._internal.utils.deprecation import deprecated
 
 DEV_PKGS = {'pip', 'setuptools', 'distribute', 'wheel'}
 
@@ -34,14 +33,6 @@ def add_options(self):
             help="Use the order in the given requirements file and its "
                  "comments when generating output. This option can be "
                  "used multiple times.")
-        self.cmd_opts.add_option(
-            '-f', '--find-links',
-            dest='find_links',
-            action='append',
-            default=[],
-            metavar='URL',
-            help='URL for finding packages, which will be added to the '
-                 'output.')
         self.cmd_opts.add_option(
             '-l', '--local',
             dest='local',
@@ -82,17 +73,8 @@ def run(self, options, args):
 
         cmdoptions.check_list_path_option(options)
 
-        if options.find_links:
-            deprecated(
-                "--find-links option in pip freeze is deprecated.",
-                replacement=None,
-                gone_in="21.2",
-                issue=9069,
-            )
-
         for line in freeze(
             requirement=options.requirements,
-            find_links=options.find_links,
             local_only=options.local,
             user_only=options.user,
             paths=options.path,

src/pip/_internal/operations/freeze.py

@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
 
 def freeze(
     requirement=None,  # type: Optional[List[str]]
-    find_links=None,  # type: Optional[List[str]]
     local_only=False,  # type: bool
     user_only=False,  # type: bool
     paths=None,  # type: Optional[List[str]]
@@ -44,10 +43,6 @@ def freeze(
     skip=()  # type: Container[str]
 ):
     # type: (...) -> Iterator[str]
-    find_links = find_links or []
-
-    for link in find_links:
-        yield f'-f {link}'
     installations = {}  # type: Dict[str, FrozenRequirement]
 
     for dist in get_installed_distributions(

tests/functional/test_freeze.py

@@ -270,19 +270,6 @@ def test_freeze_git_clone(script, tmpdir):
     ).strip()
     _check_output(result.stdout, expected)
 
-    result = script.pip(
-        'freeze', '-f', f'{repo_dir}#egg=pip_test_package',
-        expect_stderr=True,
-    )
-    expected = textwrap.dedent(
-        """
-            -f {repo}#egg=pip_test_package...
-            -e git+...#egg=version_pkg
-            ...
-        """.format(repo=repo_dir),
-    ).strip()
-    _check_output(result.stdout, expected)
-
     # Check that slashes in branch or tag names are translated.
     # See also issue #1083: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1083
     script.run(
@@ -335,19 +322,6 @@ def test_freeze_git_clone_srcdir(script, tmpdir):
     ).strip()
     _check_output(result.stdout, expected)
 
-    result = script.pip(
-        'freeze', '-f', f'{repo_dir}#egg=pip_test_package',
-        expect_stderr=True,
-    )
-    expected = textwrap.dedent(
-        """
-            -f {repo}#egg=pip_test_package...
-            -e git+...#egg=version_pkg&subdirectory=subdir
-            ...
-        """.format(repo=repo_dir),
-    ).strip()
-    _check_output(result.stdout, expected)
-
 
 @need_mercurial
 def test_freeze_mercurial_clone_srcdir(script, tmpdir):
@@ -376,19 +350,6 @@ def test_freeze_mercurial_clone_srcdir(script, tmpdir):
     ).strip()
     _check_output(result.stdout, expected)
 
-    result = script.pip(
-        'freeze', '-f', f'{repo_dir}#egg=pip_test_package',
-        expect_stderr=True,
-    )
-    expected = textwrap.dedent(
-        """
-            -f {repo}#egg=pip_test_package...
-            -e hg+...#egg=version_pkg&subdirectory=subdir
-            ...
-        """.format(repo=repo_dir),
-    ).strip()
-    _check_output(result.stdout, expected)
-
 
 @pytest.mark.git
 def test_freeze_git_remote(script, tmpdir):
@@ -482,19 +443,6 @@ def test_freeze_mercurial_clone(script, tmpdir):
     ).strip()
     _check_output(result.stdout, expected)
 
-    result = script.pip(
-        'freeze', '-f', f'{repo_dir}#egg=pip_test_package',
-        expect_stderr=True,
-    )
-    expected = textwrap.dedent(
-        """
-            -f {repo}#egg=pip_test_package...
-            ...-e hg+...#egg=version_pkg
-            ...
-        """.format(repo=repo_dir),
-    ).strip()
-    _check_output(result.stdout, expected)
-
 
 @need_bzr
 def test_freeze_bazaar_clone(script, tmpdir):
@@ -521,17 +469,6 @@ def test_freeze_bazaar_clone(script, tmpdir):
         ...""")
     _check_output(result.stdout, expected)
 
-    result = script.pip(
-        'freeze', '-f',
-        f'{checkout_path}/#egg=django-wikiapp',
-        expect_stderr=True,
-    )
-    expected = textwrap.dedent("""\
-        -f {repo}/#egg=django-wikiapp
-        ...-e bzr+file://...@...#egg=version_pkg
-        ...""".format(repo=checkout_path))
-    _check_output(result.stdout, expected)
-
 
 @need_mercurial
 @pytest.mark.git