From 570095812e65e2dff8ef2cb25c8f669837d49d41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Norman <cnorman@broadinstitute.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 12:19:58 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Remove obsolete variable.

---
 src/main/java/htsjdk/variant/vcf/VCFUtils.java | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/htsjdk/variant/vcf/VCFUtils.java b/src/main/java/htsjdk/variant/vcf/VCFUtils.java
index 3599da7edc..71776db364 100644
--- a/src/main/java/htsjdk/variant/vcf/VCFUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/htsjdk/variant/vcf/VCFUtils.java
@@ -48,11 +48,6 @@
 public class VCFUtils {
 
     private static final Pattern INF_OR_NAN_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("^(?<sign>[-+]?)((?<inf>(INF|INFINITY))|(?<nan>NAN))$", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
-    private static final boolean DEFAULT_VCF_STRICT_VERSION_VALIDATION = true;
-
-    // a global mutable static - is there an alternative ?
-    // there isn't any other reasonable place to keep this state
-    private static boolean vcfStrictVersionValidation = true;
 
     /**
      * Determine if strict VCF version validation is enabled. Defaults to true. Strict version validation