Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 04:58:09PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Marco d'Itri (md@Linux.IT) [030622 16:35]:
> > On Jun 22, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> > >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.
>
> > This looks like a good enough reason to me.
>
> Sorry, but I can find no RFA/O-entry for this package. That should be
> done first before kicking it off.
That's not a rule. Maintainers are allowed to say that their package
should be removed if they believe that it's no longer useful; they're
usually much more qualified to say that than, say, the QA group are.
It's not as if it's impossible for somebody else to reintroduce the
package if they really care.
> And I don't remember to read anything from the current maintainer
> either.
Obviously you haven't looked too closely at who started this thread
then?
From: "Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie@debian.org>
Subject: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies
Package: libc5
Maintainer: Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org>
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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