Obsolete packages in main/oldlibs
There's been some discussion about obsolete packages, particularly ldso.
I've just been through the current Packages file, looking for stuff in
oldlibs that isn't used anymore. The complete contents of oldlibs
appeared to fall in this category:
gmp
libdb1
libgdbm1
libgpm1
libjpeg6a
libpam0
libpaper
libpng0
libpwdb0
libreadline2
ncurses3.0
slang0.99.34
slang0.99.34-dev
tcl76
tcl76-altdev
tk42
termcap-compat
xslib
zlib1
There isn't anything that depends on these, in main, contrib, non-US and
non-free. I don't know about Red hat :-)
Anyway, can anyone think of a reason why any of these should remain? If
not (I'll give it a couple of days), I'll file a bug report against
ftp.debian.org to have all packages in oldlibs removed for the Alpha
distribution.
Apparently the freeze for slink is about 4 weeks away, and it would be
cool if Debian/Alpha makes it this time!
Paul Slootman
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