Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Philip Charles wrote:
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> > xpm4.7 is needed for WordPerfect 8. I have a mass of wp5.1 and wp8
> > documents.
>
> Note that the packages won't be removed from your system, they will simply
> no longer be in the Debian archive. This *may* become a problem if you
> clean-install a future version of Debian, but you should be able to get the
> old xpm4.7 and it's dependencies from a Woody CD for some years to come.
Should be no problem. This testing system started life as slink.
> And pester wordperfect^WCorel to use libraries from the current millenium.
Or pester openoffice.org for a WP filter and booklet printing.
Phil.
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