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

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Subject: Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 15:46:13 +1000
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John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> wrote:
> 
> Why not just ship an old binutils/gcc to build the old libc5 binaries?

There is no technical reason why we can't support libc5 anymore.  The only
reason that this is being discussed is that nobody has stood up to maintain
the package.
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