Re: Libc6 progress: 1997-11-23
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
> Mark Baker wrote:
> > > That means taking at least aout-gcc, aout-binutils, and dld.
> >
> > If we do take them out, we have to take out a.out runtime support too (since
> > they're needed to compile it). I don't think that's a great loss these days,
> > but some people might disagree.
>
> Let's just move them to contrib. I actually know someone who is using an
> a.out binary (an old version of the BRU commercial backup program), and has
> a otherwise libc6 hamm system.
'contrib' should not be used for old/unsupported packages anymore.
These should go in either 'oldlibs' or 'project/orphaned'.
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