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final record flag cleanup
This ties off the remainder of the record flag uses. Trying to merge different types of patches is fraught, so I added a way to get a merge patch (not a strategic patch) back from the annotation update.
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/assign @soltysh
/assign @juanvallejo
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Remove pkg/client/unversioned
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
This is removing unused package, and moves the used bits into appropriate placeholders.
**Which issue(s) this PR fixes** *(optional, in `fixes #<issue number>(, fixes #<issue_number>, ...)` format, will close the issue(s) when PR gets merged)*:
Fixes#25442
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/assign @deads2k
/assign @sttts
note that we don't change the behaviour of kubectl.
For example it won't scale new resources. That's the end goal.
The first step is to retrofit existing code to use the generic scaler.
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Library updates to better support removing kubectl deps on kubernetes/kubernetes
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**Which issue this PR fixes**: kubernetes/kubectl#50
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Refactor kubectl factory test case with sets.String
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
change to make got and want use sets.String instead, since that is both safe and more clearly shows the intent.
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