Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies
xpm4.7 is needed for WordPerfect 8. I have a mass of wp5.1 and wp8
documents.
Phil.
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> Someone could already know this amazing bug:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=196015
>
> IMO it's a good moment to drop all the following i386-specific packages
> which are libc5 related:
>
> libc5
> libc5-altdev
> libc5-altdbg
> altgcc
> libdb1
> libdb1-altdev
> libdl1
> libdl1-altdev
> zlib1
> ldso
> libg++27-altdev
> libregex0-altdev
> svgalib1-altdev
> xlib6-altdev
> xpm4.7
> xaw3d
> netscape-base-4-libc5
> svgalib1
> svgalib-dummy1
> termcap-compat
>
> and others, partially.
>
> This could impact potentially very old (commercial mostly) binaries,
> Comments, ideas, complaints?
>
> --
> Francesco P. Lovergine
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