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  1. This is a list of features that are scheduled to be removed from dpkg.
  2. What: 822-date (program)
  3. Status: obsolete
  4. When: lenny+1
  5. Warning: program
  6. Why:
  7. Should switch to use 'date -R'.
  8. What: cleanup-info (program)
  9. Status: deprecated
  10. When: lenny
  11. Warning: none
  12. Why:
  13. This program was needed long time ago to fixup broken info dir files
  14. generated by buggy install-info programs. Should not be needed anymore.
  15. What: Source-Version (substvar)
  16. Status: obsolete
  17. When: lenny+1
  18. Warning: lintian (substvar-source-version-is-deprecated)
  19. Why:
  20. The semantics of Source-Version are missleading when applied to binNMUs.
  21. Should switch to use binary:Version or source:Version substvars.
  22. What: Revision, Package-Revision, Package_Revision, Class, Recommended,
  23. Optional (field)
  24. Status: obsolete
  25. When: lenny+1
  26. Warning: program
  27. Why:
  28. These fields have been superseded by either other fields with better names
  29. or values in other fields.
  30. What: recommended, contrib, base (priority)
  31. Status: obsolete
  32. When: lenny+1
  33. Warning: none
  34. Why:
  35. These priorities have been superseded by either other fields or values in
  36. other fields.
  37. What: --force-auto-install (dpkg option)
  38. Status: obsolete
  39. When: lenny+1
  40. Warning: program
  41. What: --largemem, --smallmem (dpkg option)
  42. Status: obsolete
  43. When: lenny+1
  44. Warning: program
  45. What: --no-auto-select (dpkg option)
  46. Status: deprecated
  47. When: lenny+1
  48. Warning: none
  49. What: -u, --udeb (dpkg-scanpackages option)
  50. Status: deprecated
  51. When: lenny+1
  52. Warning: none
  53. Why:
  54. This option has been superseded by -tudeb.