Re: Do we still need libc5?

2005-09-03 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jeroen van Wolffelaar: > Fact is though that libc6 has been in Debian stable for over 7 > years, since hamm was releaed mid-1998, This suggests that we should give it three more years or something like that. However, if the packages aren't covered by security support anyway, it probably doesn'

Re: Do we still need libc5?

2005-09-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:32:41AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 04:33:13AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > > > I already proposed to remove the whole libc5 chaintools and > > dependencies before woody release. A few users complained because of a > > few old commerc

Re: Do we still need libc5?

2005-09-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 04:33:13AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > 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 a

Do we still need libc5?

2005-09-02 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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 Does the amount of usage warrant the efforts it take to maintain these rather outdated packages?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 re