diff -r c638a13093cf -r 0b18604db95e mercurial/hgweb/hgweb_mod.py
--- a/mercurial/hgweb/hgweb_mod.py	Tue Mar 06 15:08:33 2018 -0800
+++ b/mercurial/hgweb/hgweb_mod.py	Wed Mar 07 16:02:24 2018 -0800
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@
     templater,
     ui as uimod,
     util,
-    wireproto,
     wireprotoserver,
 )
 
@@ -47,9 +46,6 @@
     wsgicgi,
 )
 
-# Aliased for API compatibility.
-perms = wireproto.permissions
-
 archivespecs = util.sortdict((
     ('zip', ('application/zip', 'zip', '.zip', None)),
     ('gz', ('application/x-gzip', 'tgz', '.tar.gz', None)),