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.
