Once upon a time, Marcin Juszkiewicz <[email protected]> said:
> After making another 10 years old package build on RISC-V 64-bit
> port I started to wonder:
> 
> Will there be some kind of 'does anyone uses it still' check in Fedora?

There's really no way to see "is it used".

I was looking at my oldest active package just yesterday.  It does what
it says it does (although I haven't tested it in a bit), there's no
change needed.  Upstream did actually move since I last updated it, and
released an update, but there's no functionality change.  I haven't
actually updated the package since 2010.

The package is ufiformat, for formatting floppies in a USB floppy drive.
It's probably obsolete at this point, as I don't think anybody has made
new disks for 10+ years.  I usually pull out my USB floppy drive and
test it every few years, but there's really nothing much to break (it
just sends USB commands to the USB device, and I don't think the kernel
has changed that basic interface).

Since I thought about it, I pulled out the drive and gave it a try...
yep, still works as expected.  It might be useful to someone dealing
with legacy hardware, and there's no harm in having it, so I'll leave
it.  Maybe I'll make a reminder to try it again in a few years.
-- 
Chris Adams <[email protected]>
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