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Re: [ITA] robodoc


On 13/03/2012 09:08, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Btw., per cygwin-pkg-maint we only have 9 orphaned packages.  I don't
> believe that even one second, but these 9 packages are already orphaned
> for a long time.  Shouldn't we remove them?  At least pdksh should go,
> given that we have a modern replacement.  What about the rest?
> 
> Here's the list:
> 
>   Name		Orphaned  Replacement	Comment
> 		since
> 
>   cramfs        2005
>   distcc        2005			Builds with just a few minor tweaks.
>   ioperm        2003			Dead upstream
>   jgraph	2003			Dead upstream.  Linux jgraph is
>   					another project.
>   mtd		2005
>   nfs-server 	2006
>   pdksh		2003	  mksh
>   ping		2005			Only works for Admin
>   x2x		2004

fwiw, x2x hasn't been meaningfully updated upstream since then, probably still
works, but I'm not sure if it's actually useful to anyone, so I'd tend to go
for removal.

Using synergy is probably a better solution to this problem in almost every
respect.


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