Remove excerpt field workaround for South FakeORM

CHANGES.rst

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ To be released
 - Don't use `post_init` signal for initialize tracker
 - Make `contribute_to_class()` in `StatusField`, `MonitorField` and `SplitField`
   forward additional arguments to Django
+- `SplitField` no longer accepts `no_excerpt_field` as a keyword argument
 
 4.4.0 (2024-02-10)
 ------------------

model_utils/fields.py

@@ -222,16 +222,8 @@ def __set__(self, obj, value):
 
 
 class SplitField(models.TextField):
-    def __init__(self, *args, no_excerpt_field=False, **kwargs):
-        # for South FakeORM compatibility: the frozen version of a
-        # SplitField can't try to add an _excerpt field, because the
-        # _excerpt field itself is frozen as well. See introspection
-        # rules below.
-        self.add_excerpt_field = not no_excerpt_field
-        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
-
     def contribute_to_class(self, cls, name, *args, **kwargs):
-        if self.add_excerpt_field and not cls._meta.abstract:
+        if not cls._meta.abstract:
             excerpt_field = models.TextField(editable=False)
             cls.add_to_class(_excerpt_field_name(name), excerpt_field)
         super().contribute_to_class(cls, name, *args, **kwargs)
@@ -253,11 +245,6 @@ def get_prep_value(self, value):
         except AttributeError:
             return value
 
-    def deconstruct(self):
-        name, path, args, kwargs = super().deconstruct()
-        kwargs['no_excerpt_field'] = True
-        return name, path, args, kwargs
-
 
 class UUIDField(models.UUIDField):
     """