Re: ncurses3.4

[cjw44@cam.ac.uk (Colin Watson)]

Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at> wrote:
>Ivo Timmermans <zarq@zebra.icicle.yi.org> writes:
>> On Wed Apr 05 2000, "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <jhm@cistron.nl> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 14:23:55 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
>> > > BTW: Will we remove libc5 also in woody? It's older than ncurses3.4...
>> > 
>> > We should probably ask our users about this. Even if no Debian package uses
>> > these libraries, there may well be binary-only software in common use that
>> > uses them.
>> 
>> netscape, maple
>
>ldd /usr/lib/netscape/472/navigator/navigator-smotif.real 
[...]
>        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x401de000)
>        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
>
>See?

Are you aware of netscape-smotif-472-libc5 (for example)? Many people
use it because it's more stable on their systems.

-- 
Colin Watson                                           [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]