debian-devel thread (Re: Do we still need libc5?)
This is a thread being discussed on debian-devel. Patrick apparently
rewrote the address to debian-laptop by mistake when he responded to a
message posted to debian-devel. Let's not split the discussion. If
this interests you, read the debian-devel thread and reply there.
Thanks
Bob
Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> On 9/2/05, Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> wrote:
>
>
> Debian unstable & testing still carry around libc5, and some associated
> > packages like altgcc, libdb1, ld.so and a few others.
> >
> > Is there nowadays still a use for these packages? Does the amount of
> > usage warrant the efforts it take to maintain these rather outdated
> > packages?
>
>
> How hard can it be to keep these packages around?
>
> I already proposed to remove the whole libc5 chaintools and
> > dependencies before woody release. A few users complained because of a
> > few old commercial programs (such as wordperfect and so)
>
>
> (Apologies if attribution got messed up here.)
>
> Uh, you bet. Commercial or not, WordPerfect 8 for Unix remains the best word
> processor available on our platform. OO.org is as bloated as the software it
> emulates. I would be incredibly pissed if I could not continue to run WP8.
> But, that said, all I need is that it not be _broken_, so that those legacy
> libraries remain available and functional.
>
> I have a page at
> http://ul451.gsu.edu/~pwiseman/WP8_and_Debian_GNU_Linux.html which has some
> of the necessary packages to make it work. If there will be others taken out
> of future Debian distributions, I'd appreciate being told, so that I can
> make them available to troglodytes like myself who continue to use WP8.
> Whatever its weaknesses, it's still WordPerfect, the best word processor
> ever, whatever your platform.
>
> Patrick
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