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31327	Deprecate providing_args argument from Signal	Jon Dufresne	nobody	"The argument is and always has been purely documentational. It provides no functionality or checking. Therefore, these values are stored in memory for no real use.

Documentation can be handled just as easily by a code comment or real documentation articles.

On a more practical level, I rarely signals, so I recently had to look up their interface. Seeing this `providing_args` argument required me to think about how to best use it, only to realize it actually goes unused. We can remove this cognitive distraction from the docs.

It has caused other small confusion in the past: #19579.
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