Re: Obsolete packages in main/oldlibs
On Mon 21 Sep 1998, Paul Slootman wrote:
> 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.
OK, I just got word that these packages have been removed. So has ldso.
Paul Slootman
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