Re: Bug#24334: libc4 missing in hamm
On Wed, 08 Jul, 1998, Anton Rebhan wrote:
> Package: project
> Version: Debian-2.0Beta
> Priority: wishlist
>
> Under hamm the package libc4, which provides backward
> compatibility is missing. I gathered from the bug reports
> that this package is orphaned, but by installing it
> (because I really need to run old programs in a.out format
> for which I don't have the source code)
> I noted that it still works. 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?
> I guess that there will be still many cases like me who
> depend on this backward compatibility or who would like
> to have it available.
Think yourself lucky you are a debian user not redhat. They dropped libc5,
repeat libc5, support in redhat 5.1
scary
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