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An explanation would be nice. Also what are we supposed to write instead, to get the same effect?

From https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/296268/ by Aaron Schulz:

This is almost never used and greatly complicates edit stash hooks.

There seems to be no replacement.

Exactly. Moreover, I think (but I'm unsure where I may have heard this) it's also because there's little benefit in having minor_edit: it wouldn't mean much in many typical use cases for filters.

Too bad it was requested in phab:T28636 and phab:T19674. However, I understand why it was removed, since it affects stashed edits.

The minor flag is not really meaningful, and if you want to enforce the minor edit flag (or lack of), you should implement your own validation with a hook