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

[Leonardo Taccari <leot%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

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

From: Leonardo Taccari <leot%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/55476: The purpose of /usr/sbin/audit-packages is unclear
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 15:48:05 +0200

 Jukka Ruohonen writes:
 > 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).
 >
 
 Probably yes, it can be removed. :)
 
 However, this should be discussed on a mailing list (probably
 pkgsrc-users@, given that it is not specific to NetBSD) instead of
 GNATS so hopefully people possibly still using audit-packages (or
 download-vulnerability-list) in their local scripts will not have any
 surprise when it will be removed.