Re: Bug#24334: libc4 missing in hamm
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 09:59:05AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > > Previously Anton Rebhan wrote:
> > > > If the only severe problem with this package is that its package format is no
> > > > longer up-to-date, couldn't there be simply a non-maintainer-upload?
> > >
> > > The problem is that our current development tools are no longer able to
> > > compile the libc4-librarries. And since it's policy to make sure all
> > > packages in the distribution can be compiled using the supplied source
> > > we can't include libc4.
> > >
> > > If you have a solution to make libc4 compile using our current development
> > > suite we would be very happy to know about it.
> > >
> > Can't we just put the bo libc4 package in hamm/contrib?
>
> contrib is not intended to be a dumping ground for bad packages.
It was my understanding that contrib was for packages that are "free
enough" for the main distribution, but depend on something outside main
for either their operation or construction. (often a non-free package,
but I think obsolete package dependence is equivalent in this case)
I don't consider this "dumping". It looks more like "providing" to me.
>
> The fact is that libc4 just doesn't build on the current dlltools
> (in fact, I can't even find the dll tools package any more). It might
> be possible to build it on a bo system using dlltools of that era,
> which would at least solve the old-source-format issue, but wouldn't
> really be a good fix. I might get some time on the weekend to look at it
> if anyone thinks it's worthwhile. I have tried to build it on libc6
> and just couldn't work out how to do it, and now dlltools seems to be
> gone too.
>
The solution is to create a "looped" file system of about 200 meg and
install 1.1, or 1.2 on that file system. You should then be able to chroot
to that file system and build the packages. I will attempt it this
weekend, as I have plenty of space on my root file system.
Even under those conditions, I would consider it a candidate for contrib,
as it depends on a previous system configuration, no longer possible with
packages from main. (I am assuming that the source format could be
repaired at that point?)
Thanks,
Dwarf
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