module: remove unnecessary readPackage function

PR-URL: #57596
Reviewed-By: Jacob Smith <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Marco Ippolito <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Yagiz Nizipli <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Darshan Sen <[email protected]>

Author: dario-piotrowicz

lib/internal/modules/cjs/loader.js

@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ function initializeCJS() {
 //   -> a.<ext>
 //   -> a/index.<ext>
 
-let _readPackage = packageJsonReader.readPackage;
+let _readPackage = (requestPath) => packageJsonReader.read(path.resolve(requestPath, 'package.json'));
 ObjectDefineProperty(Module, '_readPackage', {
   __proto__: null,
   get() { return _readPackage; },

lib/internal/modules/package_json_reader.js

@@ -124,17 +124,6 @@ function read(jsonPath, { base, specifier, isESM } = kEmptyObject) {
   };
 }
 
-/**
- * @deprecated Expected to be removed in favor of `read` in the future.
- * Behaves the same was as `read`, but appends package.json to the path.
- * @param {string} requestPath
- * @return {PackageConfig}
- */
-function readPackage(requestPath) {
-  // TODO(@anonrig): Remove this function.
-  return read(path.resolve(requestPath, 'package.json'));
-}
-
 /**
  * Get the nearest parent package.json file from a given path.
  * Return the package.json data and the path to the package.json file, or undefined.
@@ -320,7 +309,6 @@ function findPackageJSON(specifier, base = 'data:') {
 
 module.exports = {
   read,
-  readPackage,
   getNearestParentPackageJSON,
   getPackageScopeConfig,
   getPackageType,