At 06:41 +0200 1999-08-18, Richard Braakman wrote:
The main problem with such cruft is often, what are we supposed to do about it? We even have a bugreport asking *not* to remove libstdc++2.8. And there's the libjpeg situation... it is entirely unclear which of the libjpeg packages are supposed to exist, and the maintainer doesn't reply to my mail.
libjpeg62 is the latest, the others should go away. I am partially responsible for the libjpeg mess, since libjpeg62 and friends were created by my NMU to correct the serious problem of Debian using a soname different from what upstream uses.
-- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) Debian GNU/Linux Developer <URL:mailto:jk@espy.org> <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org> <URL:http://web.espy.org/> <URL:http://www.debian.org/>