On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 06:30:22PM -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote: [...] > > > ii xcompat 3.1.2-4 X11R5 and X11R6 a.out compatibility librarie [...] > Source is available, it's xfree86. Building it is only possible if you have > libc4 devel tools, which virtually no one does anymore. > > Taking it out would be bad, though, because there are still a few persistant > libc4 apps that people would like to run. > > I have nothing against moving it down to contrib, since quality control will > obviously suffer. It probably has security holes, but if you still have a > setuid libc4-based xterm, xcompat is the least of your problems. Well, would someone else like to handle this package? I do not have a bo box to build it on, and frankly I don't have a whole lot of interesting in maintaining such a thing. -- G. Branden Robinson | Damnit, we're all going to die, let's Debian GNU/Linux | die doing something *useful*! branden@ecn.purdue.edu | -- Hal Clement, on comments that space cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | exploration is dangerous
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