--- a/setup.py	Thu Feb 20 11:30:50 2025 +0100
+++ b/setup.py	Thu Feb 20 11:44:44 2025 +0100
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@
 from setuptools.command.build_py import build_py
 from setuptools.command.install import install
 from setuptools.command.install_lib import install_lib
-from setuptools.command.install_scripts import install_scripts
 
 from setuptools.errors import (
     CCompilerError,
@@ -936,78 +935,6 @@
             file_util.copy_file = realcopyfile
 
 
-class hginstallscripts(install_scripts):
-    """
-    This is a specialization of install_scripts that replaces the @LIBDIR@ with
-    the configured directory for modules. If possible, the path is made relative
-    to the directory for scripts.
-    """
-
-    def initialize_options(self):
-        install_scripts.initialize_options(self)
-
-        self.install_lib = None
-
-    def finalize_options(self):
-        install_scripts.finalize_options(self)
-        self.set_undefined_options('install', ('install_lib', 'install_lib'))
-
-    def run(self):
-        install_scripts.run(self)
-
-        # It only makes sense to replace @LIBDIR@ with the install path if
-        # the install path is known. For wheels, the logic below calculates
-        # the libdir to be "../..". This is because the internal layout of a
-        # wheel archive looks like:
-        #
-        #   mercurial-3.6.1.data/scripts/hg
-        #   mercurial/__init__.py
-        #
-        # When installing wheels, the subdirectories of the "<pkg>.data"
-        # directory are translated to system local paths and files therein
-        # are copied in place. The mercurial/* files are installed into the
-        # site-packages directory. However, the site-packages directory
-        # isn't known until wheel install time. This means we have no clue
-        # at wheel generation time what the installed site-packages directory
-        # will be. And, wheels don't appear to provide the ability to register
-        # custom code to run during wheel installation. This all means that
-        # we can't reliably set the libdir in wheels: the default behavior
-        # of looking in sys.path must do.
-
-        if (
-            os.path.splitdrive(self.install_dir)[0]
-            != os.path.splitdrive(self.install_lib)[0]
-        ):
-            # can't make relative paths from one drive to another, so use an
-            # absolute path instead
-            libdir = self.install_lib
-        else:
-            libdir = os.path.relpath(self.install_lib, self.install_dir)
-
-        for outfile in self.outfiles:
-            with open(outfile, 'rb') as fp:
-                data = fp.read()
-
-            # skip binary files
-            if b'\0' in data:
-                continue
-
-            # During local installs, the shebang will be rewritten to the final
-            # install path. During wheel packaging, the shebang has a special
-            # value.
-            if data.startswith(b'#!python'):
-                logging.info(
-                    'not rewriting @LIBDIR@ in %s because install path '
-                    'not known',
-                    outfile,
-                )
-                continue
-
-            data = data.replace(b'@LIBDIR@', libdir.encode('unicode_escape'))
-            with open(outfile, 'wb') as fp:
-                fp.write(data)
-
-
 class hginstallcompletion(Command):
     description = 'Install shell completion'
 
@@ -1132,7 +1059,6 @@
     'install': hginstall,
     'install_completion': hginstallcompletion,
     'install_lib': hginstalllib,
-    'install_scripts': hginstallscripts,
     'build_hgexe': buildhgexe,
 }