Merge pull request #6300 from pradyunsg/docs/dev-docs-flake8-revision

Remove note about flake8 noqa comments

docs/html/development/getting-started.rst

@@ -83,9 +83,6 @@ The above commands run the linters on Python 2 followed by Python 3.
 .. note::
 
     Do not silence errors from flake8 with ``# noqa`` comments or otherwise.
-    The only exception to this is silencing unused-import errors for imports
-    related to static type checking as currently `flake8 does not understand
-    PEP 484 type-comments`_.
 
 Running mypy
 ------------
@@ -115,6 +112,5 @@ To build it locally, run:
 The built documentation can be found in the ``docs/build`` folder.
 
 .. _`open an issue`: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/new?title=Trouble+with+pip+development+environment
-.. _`flake8 does not understand PEP 484 type-comments`: https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8/issues/118
 .. _`PEP 484 type-comments`: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/#suggested-syntax-for-python-2-7-and-straddling-code
 .. _`rich CLI`: https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/usage.html#specifying-tests-selecting-tests