Subject: Removing obsolete packages
To: None <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: Krister Walfridsson <cato@df.lth.se>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/19/2004 00:16:55
A lot of cruft have gathered in pkgsrc over the years, and I think it
is time to do some cleaning.
I have discussed this with some of the other developers, and we
have put together a list of packages that we nominate for removal.
Our removal criteria have been
* obsolete packages that already have newer versions in pkgsrc
* obsolete packages that have security problems
* obsolete unmaintained buggy/non-functional packages
You may disagree with our wish to delete some of these packages.
If so, please send me (and this list) a mail telling us why the
package should stay, and I'll will remove it from the list.
The packages still on the list at May 31 will be removed.
I will not add any packages to this list at this time, but I plan to
do quarterly cleanups, so suggestions of additional packages to
remove will be added on the next list (in July).
/Krister
cross/m68k-netbsd
You don't need a pkg to cross-compile NetBSD.
devel/chkpt
Unmaintained since 1999, and does only work on NetBSD 1.[45] (and
does have problem on most architectures)
devel/mit-pthreads
devel/unproven-pthreads.
Unmaintained packages that do not work on most of the targets for
pkgsrc. And there are much better threading packages in pkgsrc,
graphics/water
graphics/plasma
Old buggy SDL demo, that is meaningless as a stand-alone application.
games/packman
Distfile not available, and the game was written just as a tech-demo
for an obsolete version of ClanLib anyway.
lang/egcs
This (very old) gcc version has problems on most architectures, and
newer versions are in pkgsrc.
math/rlab
has been broken for a loong time (because it relies on the API from
older version of superlu not in pkgsrc any longer).
misc/drwright
It's included in GNOME since 2.4. So it has little use (if any) as a
standalone package. Looking at the webpage, the last news
are about its inclusion in GNOME 2.4, so there will be no more
releases as is, AFAICT.
misc/dsbr100
Support for the D-Link DSB-R100 USB radio on NetBSD 1.[45] (newer
NetBSD versions have built-in support). It is believed that all
users have upgraded to newer NetBSD versions.
net/archie
net/xarchie
There does not exist any public archie servers these days.
net/netatalk-umic
net/netatalk-sun
These are ancient. net/netatalk is the updated, supported
version of net/netatalk-asun.
security/rsaref
This is no longer useful. It's also very old and no longer
maintained or audited.
security/openssh+gssapi
gssapi support is standard in the latest openssh
security/ssh
This is also very old, and no longer maintained or audited.
It only supports SSHv1.
sysutils/c++rt0
Contains a bugfixed /usr/lib/c++rt0.o for NetBSD/sparc 1.4.[012].
Users should upgrade to NetBSD 1.4.3 or newer.
sysutils/sysbuild
It only "works" for NetBSD 1.6, and to get it working for 2.0 could
require a full rewrite of the code. Besides, build.sh has improved
a lot lately...
www/arena
Unusable.
www/Mosaic
This would be worth keeping, if only it were updated to use
OpenMotif and IPv6. Oh wait, it has (www/mMosaic).
x11/lesstif12
This package is only used by www/Mosaic, it's huge, and not
maintained. OpenMotif lately supports most programs written
for Motif1.2 anyhow.