Re: aout-* packages

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

David Engel writes ("Re: aout-* packages"):
> This brings up a good question.  Do we really want to provide new,
> a.out versions of *all* development packages, even if they don't
> contain any shared libraries?  Not doing so might be a good way to
> encourage all development to switch to ELF.

We have to provide a.out versions of all the development packages
which other Debian packages depend on at build time, since we'll
otherwise be unable to make emergency fixes to 0.93.

Ian.