# Remove cisco.asa from community package **URL:** \ **Category:** Project Discussions\ **Tags:** community-wg, collection-exclusion, network\ **Created:** [December 6, 2024, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/remove-cisco-asa-from-community-package/38960 "2024-12-06T16:09:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**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:** [February 7, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/remove-cisco-asa-from-community-package/38960/6 "2025-02-07T17:04:30Z")
The decision to remove the collection from the [Ansible Community Package](https://pypi.org/project/ansible/) has _nothing_ to do with Cisco supporting ASA or not. We’ll remove the collection because we have been informed that _the collection_ is deprecated. As long as [the maintainers of the collection don’t change their mind, or someone else steps up to maintain the collection](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/collection_contributors/collection_package_removal.html#canceling-removal-of-an-unmaintained-collection), I don’t think we will undo this. You’ll still be able to install the collection via `ansible-galaxy`, though, but I’m not really sure if it’s a good idea to depend on deprecated software… I suggest to not spam multiple GitHub issues and forum threads with this, but discuss this in [Deprecation Announcement for the cisco.asa Ansible Collection](https://forum.ansible.com/t/38939). At the end of the day, as long as the collection is deprecated I think we’ll keep to our decision to remove it from the Ansible community package (_not galaxy!_). --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.ansible.com/t/remove-cisco-asa-from-community-package/38960)._