diff --git a/tools/rosdep/scripts/depdb-update b/tools/rosdep/scripts/depdb-update
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--- a/tools/rosdep/scripts/depdb-update
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@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-set -o errexit
-echo "NOTE: this mechanism is deprecated. It is now preferred to add rosdep.yaml files to individual stacks; rosdep will merge them on-the-fly."
-if [ $# -ne 1 ] ; then
-  echo "syntax: depdb-update FILE"
-  exit 1
-fi
-BACKUP=$(dirname $1)/rosdep.yaml.$(date "+%F-%H-%M-%S")
-echo "backing up your current rosdep.yaml file to $BACKUP"
-cp $1 $BACKUP
-echo "downloading the latest rosdep.yaml from sourceforge..."
-wget -q http://ros.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ros/trunk/tools/rosdep/rosdep.yaml -O $1
diff --git a/tools/rosdep/scripts/satisfy b/tools/rosdep/scripts/satisfy
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index 78852e2d..00000000
--- a/tools/rosdep/scripts/satisfy
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-set -o errexit
-if [ $# -lt 1 ] ; then
-  echo "syntax: satisfy PACKAGE[S]"
-  exit 1
-fi
-# first, try to generate the bash quietly. see if that craps out.
-if ! rosdep generate_bash $* >/dev/null ; then
-  # do it again, so that stdout can see what happened and errexit
-  rosdep generate_bash $*
-fi
-
-# since that seemed to succeed, try to run it.
-if bash <(rosdep generate_bash $*) ; then
-  echo -e "\n[rosdep]: success\n"
-else
-  echo -e "\n[rosdep]: failure\n"
-fi