The following is a list of commands or features that are deprecated. All deprecated utils are in maintenace mode and we keep them in source tree for backward compatibilty only. What: losetup -s When: 2.15 Why: the option -s is in collision with the Loop-AES losetup dialect that is used in some distributions. Use the long version (--show) only. -------------------------- What: cryptoloop support in mount/losetup When: undefined yet Why: depreciated in favor of dm-crypt. --------------------------- What: elvtune When: undefined yet Why: useless for kernel >= 2.6.9 --------------------------- What: arch(1) command When: 2.14 Why: deprecated in favor of uname(1) or arch(1) from coreutils The arch(1) has been added (during 2.13 development cycle) to coreutuls where it will be maintained as an alias for uname(1) command. ---------------------------- What: kill(1) command Why: deprecated in favor of kill from procps or bash build-in kill command ---------------------------- What: newgrp(1) Why: deprecated in favor of newgrp from shadow-utils ---------------------------- What: vipw/vigr(8) Why: deprecated in favor of vipw/vigr(8) from shadow-utils ---------------------------- What: last(1) Why: nobody uses this implementation ---------------------------- What: shutdown(1) Why: nobody uses this implementation ---------------------------- What: rdev(8), ramsize(8), vidmode(8) and rootflags(8) Why: i386 specific and probably useless