# Possibly unmaintained collections in Ansible 9

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/possibly-unmaintained-collections-in-ansible-9/2569>\
**Category:** Project Discussions\
**Tags:** collections, community-wg\
**Created:** [November 26, 2023, 12:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/possibly-unmaintained-collections-in-ansible-9/2569 "2023-11-26T12:49:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**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:** [November 26, 2023, 12:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/possibly-unmaintained-collections-in-ansible-9/2569/1 "2023-11-26T12:49:31Z")

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This is a follow-up to the issue [Finding unmaintained collections in Ansible](https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/128) on GitHub.

`unchanged-dependencies.py 9.0.0 7.0.0`:

- community.azure [Remove community.azure from Ansible 10](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/issues/283)
- community.rabbitmq There has been a [new release](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.rabbitmq/releases/tag/1.3.0) Apr 1
- gluster.gluster [Remove gluster.gluster from Ansible 10](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/issues/249)
- hpe.nimble [Remove hpe.nimble from Ansible 10](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/issues/285)
- ibm.qradar There has been a [new release](https://github.com/ansible-collections/ibm.qradar/releases/tag/v3.0.0) Dec 1
- inspur.sm [Remove inspur.sm from Ansible 11](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/issues/363)
- netapp.elementsw [Remove netapp.elementsw from Ansible 10](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/issues/276)
- netapp.storagegrid [Remove netapp.storagegrid from Ansible 11](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/issues/373)
- splunk.es There has been a [new release](https://github.com/ansible-collections/splunk.es/releases/tag/2.1.1) Nov 17

`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()

```

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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:** [December 16, 2023, 2:39pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/possibly-unmaintained-collections-in-ansible-9/2569/2 "2023-12-16T14:39:08Z")

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I’m a little bit unsure about [community.rabbitmq](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.rabbitmq).

I’ve opened [Collection requirement violation](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.rabbitmq/issues/162), let’s see what happens.

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**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 9:02am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/possibly-unmaintained-collections-in-ansible-9/2569/3 "2024-02-14T09:02:48Z")

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