Re: obsolete policy

[Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>]

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 Red Hat Cluster Suite is obsolete and replaced by Pacemaker in RHEL7.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 Therefore the "ccs", "rgmanager", "rhcs", and "ricci" policy is obsolete.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 certmaster never even made it into Debian proper and is obsolete upstream.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.


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