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Enable `packages_finder_helper_deploy_token` by default

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packages_finder_helper_deploy_token is a feature flag that enables an improvement an the file API endpoint in the Maven package registry.

The analysis for this improvement is here. Basically, we had a SQL issue when using deploy tokens for the group level API.

The improvement and the feature flag has been introduced by !58497 (merged).

The feature flag has been enabled on gitlab.com on 2021-04-15. It has been running smoothly. The response times of the impacted endpoints have been reduced.

It is now time to enabled this feature flag by default so that self-managed users can receive this improvement.

The feature flag rollout issue is here: #326808 (closed)

Related issue: #327916 (closed)

🔭 What does this MR do?

  • Enable packages_finder_helper_deploy_token by default.

No documentation change is needed as this improvement doesn't change any user facing feature.

🖼 Screenshots (strongly suggested)

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Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?

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Edited by David Fernandez

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