Re: bin/55476: The purpose of /usr/sbin/audit-packages is unclear

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/55476; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/55476: The purpose of /usr/sbin/audit-packages is unclear
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 16:40:21 +0300

 On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 01:20:02PM +0000, Leonardo Taccari wrote:
 >  It was deprecated in favour of `pkg_admin audit' and only provided for
 >  possible compatibility against user's scripts.
 
 Indeed, and it seems that this script was added exactly ten years ago. 
 Maybe a decade would be enough for the final deprecation?  Someone was even
 kind enough to provide a manual page for the script (audit-packages.8). Yet,
 it is not installed (at least any longer).
 
 - Jukka