> > Yes, they should be. When do we remove all the non-libc6 packages, though? > > I'm not entirely certain I see why we need to remove libc5 packages from > the system for Debian 2.0. While I agree that the primary packages should > really be glibc, I don't see how a few lib5 packages are going to hurt the > distribution
Well, they won't hurt much, but they would: - make memory usage less favourable (if you're running a mix of libc5/libc6 binaries, you'll have both in memory). - make Debian look less attractive (We wouldn't appear in the list of distributions that are fully libc6). As more-or-less automatic compilation of packages is now possible, we could always (at some point) just write a script and automatically convert all remaining libc5 packages to libc6 -- the ones that don't compile obviously have bugs in them, that can then be reported, thus forcing the maintainer to do something about it. But I don't think there will be many of those packages. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) #what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .