Old Library dependencies Re: Release Plans (19990513)

[Steve Dunham <dunham@cse.msu.edu>]

Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> writes:

> (Please send followups to this mail to debian-devel, not
> debian-devel-announce)

> This is what I learned from the responses to the previous announcement.

>   Boot disks:
>   CD Images:
>   Architectures:
>   PAM:
>  Perl 5.005:

Library dependencies:

  Remove as many dependencies on old libraries as possible, this
  includes:

    libjpegg6a, libncurses3.4, newt0.25, libpgsql, tk4.2, tcl7.6,
    libwraster1, libpng0g

  and various older gtk/gnome libraries.

Problematic packages can be found using "apt-cache showpkg libjpegg6a"
(replace libjpegg6a with the outdated library).  A whole list of
packages can be done with a script like:

  (LIBS="libpng0g newt0.25 ncurses3.4 libpgsql libjpegg6a tcl7.6 libwraster1"
  for pkg in $LIBS; do 
    apt-cache showpkg $pkg|sed -e '/^Reverse D/,/^[^ ]/p;d'|grep -v Depend
  done)| sort -u 

(We should filter out an exceptions list too - these lists will have
to be seperately generated for each architecture.)  It might also be a
good idea to add a filter to dinstall to keep new packages that depend
on one of these libraries from being uploaded (with a suitable
exceptions list).  A raw list of "bad" packages is at the end of this
message.


Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu


  abiword,libpng0g
  angband,ncurses3.4
  boot-floppies,newt0.25
  cqcam,libjpegg6a
  cti-ifhp,ncurses3.4
  dbf2pg,libpgsql
  fbtv,libjpegg6a
  ftape-util,tk4.2
  gettyps,ncurses3.4
  gicon,libjpegg6a
  gnotes,libjpegg6a
  gtksql,libpgsql
  gzilla,libjpegg6a
  hdlant,ncurses3.4
  hfsutils-tcltk,libjpegg6a
  imagemagick,libjpegg6a
  imaptool,libjpegg6a
  ircii,ncurses3.4
  itcl3.0,ncurses3.4
  jpeginfo,libjpegg6a
  kerberos4kth-clients,ncurses3.4
  kerberos4kth-services,ncurses3.4
  kerberos4kth-user,ncurses3.4
  knews,libjpegg6a
  libch,libpgsql
  libhdf4g,libjpegg6a
  libjpeg6a,libjpegg6a
  libjpegg-dev,libjpegg6a
  libmagick4g,libjpegg6a
  libmagick4g-lzw,libjpegg6a
  libpgsql2,libpgsql
  libterm-readline-gnu-perl,ncurses3.4
  libtiff3,libjpegg6a
  malaga-bin,tk4.2
  mgt,ncurses3.4
  mosaic,libjpegg6a
  mosaic,libpng0g
  mush,ncurses3.4
  netris,ncurses3.4
  netstd,ncurses3.4
  nn,ncurses3.4
  oneliner,ncurses3.4
  perlmagick,libjpegg6a
  pfe,ncurses3.4
  prc-tools,ncurses3.4
  rat,ncurses3.4
  rscheme,ncurses3.4
  scilab,ncurses3.4
  scottfree,ncurses3.4
  sniffit,ncurses3.4
  socks4-clients,ncurses3.4
  speak-freely,ncurses3.4
  streamer,libjpegg6a
  tcd,ncurses3.4
  tcl7.6-dev,tcl7.6
  tcl76,tcl7.6
  tela,ncurses3.4
  telnet98,ncurses3.4
  telnetd98,ncurses3.4
  tf,ncurses3.4
  tk4.2,tcl7.6
  tk4.2-dev,tk4.2
  tk42,tk4.2
  tkdesk,tcl7.6
  tkdesk,tk4.2
  tkgofer,ncurses3.4
  tkgofer,tcl7.6
  tkgofer,tk4.2
  tkstep4.2,tcl7.6
  trn,ncurses3.4
  ultra-utils,ncurses3.4
  uudeview,tcl7.6
  uudeview,tk4.2
  vice,ncurses3.4
  webcam,libjpegg6a
  wmss,libwraster1
  worklog,ncurses3.4
  www-pgsql,libpgsql
  x11iraf,ncurses3.4
  xacc,libjpegg6a
  xawtv,libjpegg6a
  xfig,libjpegg6a
  xlife,ncurses3.4
  xloadimage,libjpegg6a
  xpaint,libjpegg6a
  xpcd,libjpegg6a
  yagirc,libjpegg6a