# Possibly unmaintained collections in Ansible 11

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/possibly-unmaintained-collections-in-ansible-11/9300>\
**Category:** Project Discussions\
**Tags:** collections, community-wg\
**Created:** [September 28, 2024, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/possibly-unmaintained-collections-in-ansible-11/9300 "2024-09-28T18:30:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![mariolenz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/mariolenz/32/108_2.png) [@mariolenz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/mariolenz)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2024, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/possibly-unmaintained-collections-in-ansible-11/9300/1 "2024-09-28T18:30:13Z")

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This is a follow-up to [Possibly unmaintained collections in Ansible 10](http://forum.ansible.com/t/6162)

`unchanged-dependencies.py 11.0.0 9.0.0`

- [community.libvirt](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.libvirt) There has been a new release both on [GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.libvirt/releases/tag/1.3.1) and [Galaxy](https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/community/libvirt/?version=1.3.1)
- [ibm.spectrum\_virtualize](http://forum.ansible.com/t/8119): [Remove ibm.spectrum\_virtualize from Ansible 12](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/pull/501#event-15484288225)
- [ovirt.ovirt](https://github.com/ovirt/ovirt-ansible-collection): There has been a new release both on [GitHub](https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-ansible-collection/releases/tag/3.2.1-1) and [Galaxy](https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/ovirt/ovirt?version=3.2.1)
- [sensu.sensu\_go](http://forum.ansible.com/t/8380): [Schedule sensu.sensu\_go for removal in Ansible 12](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/pull/464)

`unchanged-dependencies.py`:

```auto
#!/usr/bin/python
# coding: utf-8
# Author: Mario Lenz <m@riolenz.de>
# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Ansible Project, 2022
"""Show unchanged dependencies between Ansible versions."""

import argparse

def get_dependencies(version):
    dependencies = {}
    major_version = version.split('.')[0]
    with open('%s/ansible-%s.deps' % (major_version, version)) as f:
        for line in f:
            dependency = line.strip().split(':')
            dependencies[dependency[0]] = dependency[1].strip()
    return dependencies

def compare_dependencies(dependencies1, dependencies2):
    for dependency in dependencies1:
        if dependency in dependencies2:
            if dependencies1[dependency] == dependencies2[dependency]:
                print(dependency)

def main():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Show unchanged dependencies between Ansible versions.')
    parser.add_argument('version1', help='first version for the comparison')
    parser.add_argument('version2', help='second version for the comparison')
    args = parser.parse_args()
    dependencies1 = get_dependencies(args.version1)
    dependencies2 = get_dependencies(args.version2)
    compare_dependencies(dependencies1, dependencies2)

if __name__ == ' __main__':
    main()

```

[Identifying and removing an unmaintained collection that has not been deprecated by its maintainers](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/collection_contributors/collection_package_removal.html#identifying-and-removing-an-unmaintained-collection-that-has-not-been-deprecated-by-its-maintainers)