However, I think the point still stands that the commit message needs to
provide a better description of why the package is being removed.  If you
think it represents an ongoing maintenance headache that's already bad and
only going to get worse, and this now outweighs its usefulness, let's just
say that.  Not all old software is problematic, and not all problematic
software is old; the fact that the last release was 20 years ago is an
interesting fact but in isolation that doesn't represent a problem.
Indeed, compared to some other packages in oe-core, eight patches in
total over a 20-year period doesn't seem like that bad of an average.