Re: Removing old orphaned packages?

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

* Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> [2005-06-14 16:48]:
> I'm jumping into a thread where I wasn't particularly asked, but in
> case it's useful I also read through all of these and I agree with

Thanks for your comments.

> > xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2 -- 100 dpi BIZNET ISO-8859-2 fonts for X servers. [#237476]
> 
> This went away, didn't it?  I seem to remember seeing this get removed as
> part of an apt-get dist-upgrade.

No, it seems it is still around.

14374:tbm@merkel: ~] madison xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2
xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2 |   3.0.0-14 |     oldstable | source
xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2 |   3.0.0-15 |        stable | source
xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2 |   3.0.0-15 |       testing | source
xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2 |   3.0.0-16 |      unstable | source

> > yencode -- Powerful yEnc decoder/encoder [#239960]
> 
> There are plenty of other packages that can handle yEnc at this point.

Yes, uuencode/uudecode can apparently handle most of them and yydecode
is in the process of being adopted.

> > x-ttcidfont-conf -- Configure TrueType and CID fonts [#201376]
> 
> If someone has a chance to explain this one, I'm really curious what's up
> with it.  I never really understood what this package did or what it's

I don't know.
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Martin Michlmayr
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