This is a thread being discussed on debian-devel. Patrick apparently rewrote the address to debian-laptop by mistake when he responded to a message posted to debian-devel. Let's not split the discussion. If this interests you, read the debian-devel thread and reply there.
Thanks Bob Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On 9/2/05, Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 usage warrant the efforts it take to maintain these rather outdated 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? > > > How hard can it be to keep these packages around? > > 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) > > > (Apologies if attribution got messed up here.) > > Uh, you bet. Commercial or not, WordPerfect 8 for Unix remains the best word > processor available on our platform. OO.org is as bloated as the software it > emulates. I would be incredibly pissed if I could not continue to run WP8. > But, that said, all I need is that it not be _broken_, so that those legacy > libraries remain available and functional. > > I have a page at > http://ul451.gsu.edu/~pwiseman/WP8_and_Debian_GNU_Linux.html which has some > of the necessary packages to make it work. If there will be others taken out > of future Debian distributions, I'd appreciate being told, so that I can > make them available to troglodytes like myself who continue to use WP8. > Whatever its weaknesses, it's still WordPerfect, the best word processor > ever, whatever your platform. > > Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
