diff --git a/TODO-private b/TODO-private
deleted file mode 100644
index 09e6755ee..000000000
--- a/TODO-private
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-Move things so there are no symlinks from repository to
-any directory other than common
-
-******************
-LINGUAS:
-  sort -u ../[fst]u/po/LINGUAS > po/LINGUAS
-
-go cu
-cd po
-for i in f s t; do
-  echo $i:
-  xu=${i}u
-  for j in $(cat ../../$xu/po/LINGUAS); do
-    echo "  $j"
-    msgmerge -o k ../../$xu/po/$j.po $j.po && mv k $j.po
-  done
-done
-
-go cu; cd po; export xu=tu j=zh_TW
-go cu; cd po; export xu=su j=ru
-go cu; cd po; export xu=fu j=zh_TW
-go cu; cd po; export xu=tu j=fr
-go cu; cd po; export xu=su j=tr
-go cu; cd po; export xu=fu j=ca
-
-go cu; cd po; export xu=su j=sl
-go cu; cd po; export xu=tu j=el
-go cu; cd po; export xu=su j=da
-go cu; cd po; export xu=fu j=lg
-k=$xu-$j
-msgmerge -o $k ../../$xu/po/$j.po $j.po && mv $k $j.po
-cvs ci -m 'merge from fileutils-4.1.11' $j.po