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I believe the discussion in #8634 is for a different change, but one of a similar nature.

It's not, the maintainer has pointed to that discussion multiple times to the author of the submission, saying they need to resolve that before they can just straight up deprecate authentication methods without any alternatives available to users currently using it.

I'm really confused by this interpretation. I see a single comment by the maintainer, saying:

> That mistake was made in the past (#8634), where there was still a lot of usages of a old and announced deprecated method (and even with quite some effort there is).

It was a related, but separate issue, which is perhaps best-described in this upstream issue: https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-core/issues/121...

The "plain" setting jvoison wants to remove is described here: https://security.stackexchange.com/a/218554

I do agree with the maintainer that a discussion is warranted before removing this setting. But I also wouldn't personally have closed the PR while waiting for said discussion to occur - and the maintainer could have created a discussion themselves. They are signaling they don't want this change, full stop.

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