On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 04:12:45PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > The situation is: gcc-2.95 is no longer needed to compile debian packages, > > but it is still needed for other tasks, by many people. > > By whom, and for what? So far I haven't heard a specific project's > name. Debian does not exist for the benefit of its developers, it exists for the benefit of its users. I doubt that many Debian *users* read debian-devel so they aren't going to be responding to messages in this thread. I am quite sure that there are Debian *users* out there that have legacy code that only builds under gcc 2.95 (or more likely g++ 2.95) and they haven't ported it to a newer C compiler because there is no business case for it. Removing a package simply because the Debian developers don't need it any more is the kind of arrogance that drives users away from Debian to other distributions. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA dave@rudedog.org | http://www.rudedog.org/ UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL-Postfix
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