Sorry to send this twice, the list rejected because my first included HTML (darn browser email interface). RHEL8 includes mcelog Dave From: Chris PeBenito <pebenito@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, March 6, 2021 1:54 PM To: Russell Coker <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; selinux-refpolicy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <selinux-refpolicy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: obsolete policy On 3/4/21 8:30 PM, Russell Coker wrote: > 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 Red Hat Cluster Suite is obsolete and replaced by Pacemaker in RHEL7.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 Therefore the "ccs", "rgmanager", "rhcs", and "ricci" policy is obsolete.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 certmaster never even made it into Debian proper and is obsolete upstream.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 I made a PR that removes all of the above except for certwatch, as I found CentOS 8 packages for it, and consoletype, as I feel like I've seen it recently. I also removed the clvmd_t domain. https://github.com/SELinuxProject/refpolicy/pull/356 I'll keep this open until at least the end of next week for further comments. -- Chris PeBenito
