Acting as a thread bump, here is the updated list: =====Packages for which interest/concern has been shown or hardware-related pkg===== apmd replaced by acpi (incorrect. needed for older machines) dmcradio Description: A ncurses-based console program for radio tuner cards. efax utilities to send and receive faxes, I guess we should keep it unless another package provides fax support hnb Description: hierarchical notebook (hnb) is a curses program to structure many kinds of data in one place ipvsadm Description: The IP Virtual Server administration utility isapnptools ISA Plug-And-Play devices support: shopuld be kept jetty Description: A full-fledged production-grade lightweight Java Servlet Container mrtg Description: Multi Router Traffic Grapher. speedtouch modem drivers, should be kept vconfig Description: VLAN configuration utility -- Is there a standard way to config VLANs? iputils or iproute? zebra Description: Manages IPv4 and IPv6 routing protocols -- Do we have other router software? I'm curious if we cover more advancedserver functionality. ===== =====Packages on the verge of being moved to unsupported===== adns Description: adns is an asyncronous replacement resolver library gpgme03 obsoleted by gpgme??? gprolog Can be removed, I guess. There is another prolog compiler (swi-prolog) in repo. hashalot Description: A tool to hash stuff hypermail Description: Hypermail is a program that takes a file of mail messages in UNIX mailbox format and generates a set of cross-referenced HTML documents ippl Description: IP Protocols Logger ircd Description: Internet Relay Chat Daemon mod_security Description: An open source intrusion detection and prevention engine for web applications netdude w libnetdude & libpcapnav used to inspect/manipulate tcpdump trace files. Should we keep it? netkit-bootparamd Do we keep? netkit-ntalk Isn't talk obsoleted by Instant Messaging and IRC? netpipes Description: The netpipes package makes TCP/IP streams usable in shell scripts oidentd ident server like pidentd (orphaned). Which one should we keep or should we remove both? pam_mysql Description: A PAM module to authenticate users against mysql. perl-email-date unused modules, to be removed from extra pidentd ident server like oidentd (orphaned). Which one should we keep or should we remove both? pppconfig Description: A text menu based utility for configuring ppp. sendfile Description: The sendfile client transfers files to the sendfile daemon of the recipient's host tmda Description: Tagged Message Delivery Agent. xprobe Description: tool for remote OS fingerprinting based on ICMP responses received from the host ytalk Description: A client of the talk/ntalk inet daemon ===== -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.