Re: Bug#3066: a.out binaries in various packages
Chris Fearnley writes:
> > Could you please tell us where these packages are useful for? What can they
> > do that genscript can not?
>
> Who cares. I think it's important to have obsolete packages stowed
> off somewhere for the day when someone says, "Golly, now I know why we
> shouldn't have deleted that package - let me go get it and update it
> presently". Except in cases like ftape where there is absorbed by
> another package, perhaps.
But aren't they exactly that? Sven, since you're maintaining genscript, do
you think a2ps/a2gs are still useful? Or could e replace both by a
shellscript calling genscript?
Michael
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