Re: Netscape removed, why?

[Hartmut Figge <hfigge@knuut.de>]

Todd Suess wrote:
> 
> Just did an apt-get update tonight, and while doing my nightly apt-get
> dist-upgrade, this was the result.
> 
> tsuess:~# apt-get dist-upgrade -s | more
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   communicator-base-47 communicator-nethelp-47 communicator-smotif-47
>   communicator-spellchk-47 gconv-modules libc6-bin netscape-base-4
                                           ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   netscape-base-47 netscape-java-47

i've just seen a posting on devel, which _could_ explain that:

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On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> On 28-Jan-2000 Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> > The new libc6 package (2.1.2-12) is causing some dependency problems. It
> 
> Joel decided not to have a libc6-bin package, so anything that wants it should
> be RC bug'ed.

The only packages affected seem to be:
w3m
netscape-base-4
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hafi