In the svn repository I found:

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r4221 | stefan | 2009-06-17 03:45:25 +0200 (Wed, 17 Jun 2009) | 1 line

Remove obsolete detectors.
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But this isn't mentioned in the changelog or release notes,
and I still have to look at the current docs what I should use instead
of newissuecopy.py