X.Org announced the termination of support for 20 outdated libraries and utilities

Nikol·May 3, 2023·0 comments

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The X.Org Foundation has discontinued support for 20 outdated X Windows System utilities, drivers, and libraries, with no updates or security maintenance. Several packages were deprecated due to being obsolete or having a lack of practical use, such as app/xdbedizzy, app/xsetmode and app/xsetpointer. Additionally, several libraries and drivers that were discontinued had long been unsupported or their support was disabled, such as lib/liboldX and lib/libXfontcache. The Foundation recommended updated projects or forks to replace the deprecated packages, such as app/xditview, with the inclusion of the GNU groff package.

X.Org announced the termination of support for 20 outdated libraries and utilities

The X.Org Foundation has announced the end of support for 20 deprecated X Windows System utilities, drivers, and libraries. The organization will no longer release updates for them and maintain their security.

List of packages from the team’s official announcement:

  • app/lbxproxy and lib/liblbxutil — left over from linking to the LBX extension, which was removed in 2007;

  • app/luit – it is recommended to use the fork of the project;

  • app/proxymngr, app/xfindproxy, app/xfwp — X11 Proxy Management Protocol is considered obsolete and recommends using tunnels via SSH;

  • app/xdbedizzy – a simple demonstration of the Double Buffer Extension (DBE), not of practical use;

  • app/xrx – plugin for working with Netscape Plugin API (NPAPI) in browsers;

  • app/xsetmode – replaced with xinput --set-mode device_name ABSOLUTE;

  • app/xsetpointer – stopped working back in 2007;

  • app/xtrap and lib/libXTrap — XTEST and RECORD extensions are used instead;

  • driver/xf86-input-* – most library drivers are not supported. The exceptions were xf86-input-libinput, xf86-input-evdev, xf86-input-keyboard, xf86-input-mouse, xf86-input-elographics, xf86-input-joystick, xf86-input-synaptics, xf86-input xf86-input -void;

  • driver/xf86-video-glide – driver for graphics accelerators 3Dfx Voodoo 1 and 3Dfx Voodoo 2;

  • font/bitstream-speedo — a library for working with Speedo fonts, support for which was disabled in 2009;

  • lib/liboldX – compatibility layer with X Window System 10, which ceased to be relevant in 1987;

  • lib/libXevie – XEvIE extension support, disabled in 2009;

  • lib/libXfontcache – support for the FontCache extension, disabled in 2009;

  • lib/libxkbui – a library used in the xorgcfg utility, which was removed in 2009;

  • lib/libXxf86misc – support for the XFree86-Misc extension, removed in 2009.

The project team also announced the termination of support for the following packages:

  • lib/libdmx — Xdmx-server was removed from xorg-server in 2021;

  • lib/libXp – Xprt-server was removed from xorg-server in 2009;

  • app/xditview – it is recommended to use the fork of gxditview, which is included in the GNU groff package.

Nikol

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