Hi all, Debian unstable & testing still carry around libc5, and some associated packages like altgcc, libdb1, ld.so and a few others.
Is there nowadays still a use for these packages? Does the amount of usage warrant the efforts it take to maintain these rather outdated packages? I get a mixed reading from the popcon output, I don't know how to interpret it accurately. Fact is though that libc6 has been in Debian stable for over 7 years, since hamm was releaed mid-1998, and I think Debian is like the only living Linux distribution out there still shipping libc5. Thanks for your insight, --Jeroen ----- Forwarded message from Francesco Paolo Lovergine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:56:36 +0200 From: Francesco Paolo Lovergine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Francesco Paolo Lovergine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, RISKO Gergely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Hudon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#323139: RoM: please remove altgcc Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]