Chris, what do you think of this? On Tuesday, 26 January 2021 22:28:34 AEDT Russell Coker wrote: > Below is the list of policy modules which seem to be obsolete. > > https://tracker.debian.org/news/874147/removed-20070115-17-from-unstable/ > > aiccu has been removed from Debian because SixXS has been shut down and no > replacement popped up within 3 months. > > https://tracker.debian.org/news/1074787/removed-140pre2git141-g6d40dace6358-> 2-from-unstable/ > > bcf2 has been removed from Debian because py2-only; RC buggy; orphaned since > ~2 years; no upstream release in ~4 years; low popcon > > https://www.voip-info.org/callweaver/ > > callweaver is regarded as dead, and it's also a fork of Asterisk so should > probably be an addition to asterisk.fc if we were to support it. > > https://www.unixarena.com/2015/12/compare-redhat-cluster-releases-rhel-7-ha-> vs-rhel-6-ha.html/ > https://tracker.debian.org/news/758808/removed-318-13-from-unstable/ > > Red Hat Cluster Suite is obsolete and replaced by Pacemaker in RHEL7. > Therefore the "ccs", "rgmanager", "rhcs", and "ricci" policy is obsolete. > > https://tracker.debian.org/news/1020385/removed-025-11-from-experimental/ > > certmaster never even made it into Debian proper and is obsolete upstream. > > certwatch never got into Debian, but I couldn't easily find the upstream > status, might be used on RHEL. > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cipe/+bug/124384 > > cipe is dead upstream. > > clockspeed seems to have gone ages ago and is dead upstream, hard to even > find google hits for it. > > clogd seems to have gone away. > > https://askubuntu.com/questions/1241259/clvm-package-in-repo > > cmirrord is part of clvm which has gone away. > > https://repology.org/project/consoletype/versions > consoletype doesn't seem to be used nowadays. > > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dcc > > dcc seems to have gone away 13 years ago. > > https://tracker.debian.org/news/668558/removed-0423debian1-1-from-unstable/ > > ddcprobe (part of xresprobe) was hugely obsolete 7 years ago. > > https://tracker.debian.org/news/1152902/removed-210-2-from-unstable/ > http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/changelog.html > > denyhosts was removed from Debian last year and hasn't been maintained > upstream since 2008. > > https://tracker.debian.org/news/558416/removed-3102dfsg-13-from-unstable/ > > dspam was removed from Debian in 2014 because of lack of upstream > maintenance. > > https://packages.qa.debian.org/h/howl.html > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-configuration_networking > > howl was removed from Debian in 2005 and is described as "historical" in > Wikipedia. > > imaze appears to be long obsolete, I couldn't find a reference to it newer > than 2005. > > jockey appears obsolete, I can't find references to it that are newer than > 2014. > > ktalk seems obsolete more than 15 years ago. > > https://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lockdev/news/20160107T183954Z.html > > lockdev is obsolete and replaced by flock. > > https://tracker.debian.org/news/385983/bug531317-removed-packages-from-unsta > ble/ > > mailscanner was orphaned in 2011. > > https://tracker.debian.org/news/932631/removed-153dfsg-1-from-unstable/ > > mcelog is obsolete and has no kernel support in recent kernels. > > http://www.openantivirus.org/projects.php > > oav seems dead, last upstream change seems to be 2007. > > https://tracker.debian.org/news/1084490/removed-111-10-from-unstable/ > > polipo orphaned 1.5+ years ago; python2-only; dead upstream; low popcon > > https://tracker.debian.org/news/852685/removed-0815-6-from-unstable/ > > pyicqt removed from debian in 2017 because no upstream, no users > > > As an aside, the previous changes checked in to git reduced the Debian > policy package size from 3364228 to 3218572. Removing all the above plus a > few others that aren't in Debian (but might be in other distributions) took > the package to 2996804 bytes. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/
