From 53db866ef96f98e442421f65e1662bb244047240 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "James R. Barlow" <james@purplerock.ca>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 03:54:55 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Remove deprecated exception PdfMergeFailedError

---
 src/ocrmypdf/__init__.py   |  1 -
 src/ocrmypdf/api.py        |  2 --
 src/ocrmypdf/exceptions.py | 20 --------------------
 3 files changed, 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/ocrmypdf/__init__.py b/src/ocrmypdf/__init__.py
index 7f4a4cd2..25c3039d 100644
--- a/src/ocrmypdf/__init__.py
+++ b/src/ocrmypdf/__init__.py
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ from ocrmypdf.exceptions import (
     InputFileError,
     MissingDependencyError,
     OutputFileAccessError,
-    PdfMergeFailedError,
     PriorOcrFoundError,
     SubprocessOutputError,
     TesseractConfigError,
diff --git a/src/ocrmypdf/api.py b/src/ocrmypdf/api.py
index 8d92eb71..67febaeb 100644
--- a/src/ocrmypdf/api.py
+++ b/src/ocrmypdf/api.py
@@ -284,8 +284,6 @@ def ocr(  # pylint: disable=unused-argument
             ``"-"``, some final validation steps are not performed (we do not read
             back the stream after it is written).
     Raises:
-        ocrmypdf.PdfMergeFailedError: If the input PDF is malformed, preventing merging
-            with the OCR layer.
         ocrmypdf.MissingDependencyError: If a required dependency program is missing or
             was not found on PATH.
         ocrmypdf.UnsupportedImageFormatError: If the input file type was an image that
diff --git a/src/ocrmypdf/exceptions.py b/src/ocrmypdf/exceptions.py
index d5a9ae8e..b56e8a1a 100644
--- a/src/ocrmypdf/exceptions.py
+++ b/src/ocrmypdf/exceptions.py
@@ -47,26 +47,6 @@ class BadArgsError(ExitCodeException):
     exit_code = ExitCode.bad_args
 
 
-class PdfMergeFailedError(ExitCodeException):  # deprecated
-    """An intermediate PDF can't be merged.
-
-    No longer in use.
-    """
-
-    exit_code = ExitCode.input_file
-    message = dedent(
-        '''\
-        Failed to merge PDF image layer with OCR layer
-
-        Usually this happens because the input PDF file is malformed and
-        ocrmypdf cannot correct the problem on its own.
-
-        Try using
-            ocrmypdf --pdf-renderer sandwich  [..other args..]
-        '''
-    )
-
-
 class MissingDependencyError(ExitCodeException):
     """A third-party dependency is missing."""