On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 02:08:26PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:14:45AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > Joey Hess writes: > > > altgcc > > > > I didn't realize that this one still does exist. Please remove it from > > unstable. > > A number of libc5 related packages still depend on it though, and > should be removed together. > > ld.so: The Linux dynamic linker and library for libc4 and libc5. > libc: libc5 > libdb: libdb1 > libg++27: The GNU C++ libraries (libc5 version) > regex: libc5 version of regex libs > termcap-compat: Compatibility package for old termcap-based programs. > > > What do you think of this? Based on popcon stats libc5, it's hard to > say whether it's still really used, though I think it's pushing things > to still ship this stuff with etch. >
I already proposed to remove the whole libc5 chaintools and dependencies before woody release. A few users complained because of a few old commercial programs (such as wordperfect and so) which depends yet on it. I asked on d-d at that time. Probably a survey could be conducted on d-u (I'm not subscribed) to know general suggestions by our users. I still have the same opinion, the old chaintool is now and always a pain to compile with every new release of the current one, and has a good deal of bugs. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
