Re: Libraries to move to oldlibs

[Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>]

Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote:
> > These libraries should all be moved to oldlibs, bugs should be filed against
> > the packages that depend on them, all but libsdl* and libxaw6 should be
> > removed from Debian once there are no packages compiled against them.
> 
> There are several commercial programs that use SDL (especially games).
> When we remove libsdl1.0 it might be that our users won't be able to run
> some of them without manually installing the old SDL libraries - and they
> will blame Debian for this. This might also be a reason to keep some of
> the other libraries.
> 
> (but there's no reason against moving them to oldlibs)

I agree, that I why I suggested that we keep libsdl* and libxaw6 in oldlibs.

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