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Remove support for 2x role formats

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#30,104 opened on Sep 22, 2017

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Original comment by @jaymode:

The security code base still contains parsing code and support for the old 2x role format that we've deprecated. We should remove this for 7.0 since it is too late to remove it for 6.0. Some of this code exists in the FileRolesStore and the RoleDescriptor classes.

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Research direction
Locate the deprecated role format parsing code in FileRolesStore and RoleDescriptor classes, remove it, and update associated tests to ensure nothing breaks.
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java
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securitybackend
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Refactor
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