chore: remove assert dependencies

[43081j]

This removes the assert dependency from docs-tools since it seems it is no longer used.

If for some reason we do actually need it, i suggest we at least replace it with a smaller alternative as assert is a known-to-be-bloated dependency

[yannbf]

Hey @shilman Could you make sure this is actually not needed? Thanks!

[shilman]

Hi @43081j ! Thanks for trying to clean this up. We added assert as a dependency because it's used by doctrine, which is also a dependency of docs-tools. We should remove doctrine from docs-tools because it's unmaintained. But that is a bigger project. Closing this PR for now but please let me know if you think I got it wrong.

[43081j]

@shilman that sounds like your dependency tree isn't right?

docs-tools doesn't reference assert anywhere from what i can see. so are you saying doctrine depends on it but doesn't declare it as a dependency?

we should figure this out, it seems one way or another it needs removing from the dependencies (thanks to not being used directly)

[shilman]

@43081j absolutely. here is the background for the change that added assert #24732

if we can come up with a good replacement for doctrine i'd love to get rid of it.