Shall I create a bogus libc5-dev compat package?
I've been thinking, while going through and doing mass rebuilds, that
it might be, if not The Right Thing, then at least a good time saving
move to build a fake libc5-dev compat package.
The way I envision this, it would really consist of nothing more than
a symlink between alpha-linux-gcc and alpha-linuxlibc1-gcc.
The resulting libraries wouldn't really be _needed_ by anything (there
wouldn't actually exist a specs file for gcc that pointed anywhere but
standard locations), and would likely never get installed because
nothign would depend on them.
Does anyone who'se actually worked with the compat packages know why
this wouldn't work? Do people think it's a silly idea? Once hamm is
released are we going to take all that compat-stuff out of packages
that have it, or are we going to maintain it indefinitely?
Thoughts,
Mike
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