Re: Bug#2393: incomplete non-free installation of giftrans, unzip, and zip
James D. Freels writes:
>
> Package: libc5 giftrans unzip zip
> Version: 5.2.18-1 1.12-6 5.12-11 2.01-11
>
> Using the present non-free debian tree, a normal installation of the
> packages giftrans, unzip, and zip is not possible from a stable
> (0.93R6) installation of debian. This is because these packages
> require the libc5 package which is currently only available under the
> development tree. Therefore, a user under the stable tree can not
> presently easily install giftrans, unzip, or zip packages.
>
> The solution to this problem is for the libc5 package maintainer to
> make an a.out version of the libc5 package available under the stable
> tree.
Unfortunatly this is impossible. The libc5 series cannot be compiled in AOUT
and even if it could it wouldn't help. These packages depend on libc5
because they are ELF. An AOUT library wouldn't help.
Michael
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Michael Meskes
Lehrstuhl fuer angewandte Mathematik insb. Informatik
RWTH-Aachen, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
email: meskes@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
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