Affects PMD Version: ./.

Rule: UselessAssignment

Description:
https://github.com/pmd/pmd/blob/master/pmd-java/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/rule/UselessAssignment.java is not available in any ruleset and has a comment

//FUTURE This is not referenced by any RuleSet?

which indicates that this has been forgotten. If it's no longer use it should be marked deprecated or removed all together (and its removal should be noted somewhere since users will search for the functionality it provides).

Code Sample demonstrating the issue: ./.

Running PMD through: ./.