Ben Collins wrote: > Soon after the slink release I requested comments for a decision to remove > packages that supported libc5 for sparc (aka, xlib6 and other altdev > packages). That has pretty much been taken care of. The reasons behind it > were the lack of being able to build the latest libc5 for sparc, and also > that libc5 was pretty broken on ultrasparc platforms. > > Now coming into the potato release, I want to get some comments on > removing all traces of libc5 from the sparc dist. This includes altgcc and > libc5 itself. I can find no reasons to keep it in the dist. As I've said > before, there are no legacy applications that I know of that use libc5 on > sparc, and now that jdk for sparc is compiled against glibc, that one > milestone is gone too. > > Are there any real technical objections to this? If not, I'll start > posting bug reports to strip the last remaining packages out.
As the [non?-]maintainer of this package, I really agree it should be removed (along with all other old libs). I never even tried to rebuild it for months (maybe years :((( ). I don't use libc5 linked programs anymore and I didn't see one for months. If someone still want to install this library, and all other libc5 linked libs from the oldlibs section, they could be gotten from a slink CD or archive mirror. I guess there will be no incompatibilities in installing them on a potato system. Regards. -- Eric Delaunay | S'il n'y a pas de solution, c'est qu'il n'y [EMAIL PROTECTED] | a pas de problème. Devise Shadok.