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Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies



On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 09:27:57AM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:43:23PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote:
> > 
> > You, and rest of the minority who use libc5 program, can dual-boot
> > an older distribution of Debian (say potato) where the programs still
> > work. Yes, it can be a hassle, but it works.

What about a solution using a libc5 aware chroot only, or something such ? 

So, no need to dual-boot, and a subset of woody containing only the
libc5 stuff can be kept even after we drop official support for woody.

I don't know if this would be feasible though.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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