On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > The list of > packages shows many "obsolete/local" packges with no replacements > available. I am sure SOME of these were hamm packages which have no > slink equivelents.
The same thing happened to me when slink went to stable and hamm wasn't being looked at by dselect anymore (either ftp or apt, i forget which i had at the time). It turned out that they all were old packages that were renamed at some point between hamm and slink, so i just removed them all. > I remember one being Infocom, there were also some > 'libxxxxx' packages, I think slink has some equivelants with later .so > numbers (but shouldn't dselect been able to upgrade these?). Bug? Or just someone not doing the Right Thing when updating a package? However, i won't complain until i manage a package myself and do everything perfectly ;) > A few > were truly local packages (.rpm's that I ran though alien, Netscape > being one). There're quite a few Netscape packages available in Debian. Wrappers for installing 3 and 4 from the tar gzips off of netscape.com, and a plethora of Netscape 4 packages now that the source is free. > What should I do about these? I most cases I guess just > continue to use the older packages as long as they still work. Check if you still need them, and remove them if you don't.
