Question regarding orphaned files on existing IPFire installations

["Peter Müller" <peter.mueller@ipfire.org>]

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Hello development folks,

while preparing some of the last Core Updates, I frequently came across rootfile
changes, or patches making some files previously shipped (and therefore present on
existing IPFire installations) obsolete.

By accident, I stumbled across some of these files again, and would therefore like
to raise the question of what to do with them. Should I, being in responsible for
a certain Core Update, delete these via the update.sh script?

(This would mean to check every rootfile change for deleted files, and include them
in an 'rm' block in the update.sh script. I am willing to put that effort in, but
want to make sure this is desired.)

Also, I recently came across some scripts such as ovpn-ccd-convert no longer needed.
For whatever reason, /usr/share/GeoIP/ is also still present on all IPFire machines
I administer, although it should have been deleted during the update to Core 140.

If I come across such incidents, should I include them in the 'rm' block of an
update.sh script as well?

Threads regarding full filesystems come up at https://community.ipfire.org/ on
a regular, but not worryingly frequency. I am getting the feeling that we are not
always cleaning up leftovers during updates as thorough as we could to. :-)

Thanks, and best regards,
Peter Müller

P.S.: Also, I am back in action, and can take care of Core Update 167 (or 166, if
there is something left to do on it), if desired. Just drop me a line.