Re: Debian target audience

[Alex Yukhimets <aqy6633@is5.nyu.edu>]

> 
> Alex Yukhimets:
> > Debian is the effort of a large number of developers and primararily
> > *for* developers.
> 
> I disagree. I think Debian is for anyone who wants a good Linux
> system, and who doesn't need much non-free software.
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That was exactly my point. Why should Debian cut off those
who *does* need non-free software? Especially developers.

> 
> I don't agree that having both libc5 and libc6 run-time libraries
> in use at the same time is important enough to burden ourselves
> with duplicate packages.

The problem of having both libc5 and libc6 run-time libraries is minor,
the main one is that those stuck with libc5-dev cannot use other
newly-available versions of *libraries* from hamm. 

Thanks.

Alex Y.

> 
> I don't mind if someone maintains separate libc5 packages, but it
> should not be the project.
> 
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