RF: Drop now-unused info.VERSION

Author: effigies

nibabel/info.py

@@ -6,19 +6,6 @@
 relative imports.
 """
 
-# nibabel version information
-# This is a fall-back for versioneer when installing from a git archive.
-# This should be set to the intended next version + dev to indicate a
-# development (pre-release) version.
-_version_major = 5
-_version_minor = 0
-_version_micro = 0
-_version_extra = '.dev0'
-
-# Format expected by setup.py and doc/source/conf.py: string of form "X.Y.Z"
-VERSION = f'{_version_major}.{_version_minor}.{_version_micro}{_version_extra}'
-
-
 # Note: this long_description is the canonical place to edit this text.
 # It also appears in README.rst, but it should get there by running
 # ``tools/refresh_readme.py`` which pulls in this version.

nibabel/tests/test_pkg_info.py

@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
 import nibabel as nib
 from nibabel.pkg_info import cmp_pkg_version
 
-from ..info import VERSION
-
 
 def test_pkg_info():
     """Smoke test nibabel.get_info()
@@ -26,23 +24,6 @@ def test_version():
     assert nib.pkg_info.__version__ == nib.__version__
 
 
-def test_fallback_version():
-    """Test fallback version is up-to-date
-
-    This should only fail if we fail to bump nibabel.info.VERSION immediately
-    after release
-    """
-    ver = Version(nib.__version__)
-    fallback = Version(VERSION)
-    assert (
-        # Releases have no local information, archive matches versioneer
-        ver.local is None
-        or
-        # dev version should be larger than tag+commit-githash
-        fallback >= ver
-    ), 'nibabel.info.VERSION does not match latest tag information'
-
-
 def test_cmp_pkg_version_0():
     # Test version comparator
     assert cmp_pkg_version(nib.__version__) == 0