feat(core): Deprecate forceTransaction option in StartSpanOptions - #23821
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`forceTransaction` no longer has a concrete use case: all spans are indexed and searchable in Sentry, so a span does not need to be a transaction to be queried, filtered or aggregated on. The option will be removed in the next major version. For the remaining cases where a span genuinely has to be a segment (root) span, the JSDoc points to starting it without a parent span (`withActiveSpan(null, ...)`, optionally inside `continueTrace`) instead of forcing it into a transaction. Internal SDK usages are suppressed with an oxlint directive for now and will be evaluated separately. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This PR deprecates the
forceTransactionStartSpanOptionsproperty.Sentry.continueTrace(Sentry.withActiveSpan(null, Sentry.startSpan())). Not a pretty workaround but based on feedback and needs, we can evaluate adding a helper or a newforceSegment(naming TBD) optioncloses #20278