On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:27:27PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > >> > >> I'm quite confident that the release team and/or gcc maintainers will > >> agree that 'is needed to compile 2.4 kernels' is a big enough reason to > >> keep some gcc version around if Debian gets to the point to decide which > >> old gcc versions should be shipped or dropped. > > > > We even have GCC 2.7.2 in unstable (gcc272). Does anyone actually use > > this anymore, or could it be removed for etch? > > Not sure about 2.7.2, but 2.95 is definitly usable - at least to compile > code that has problems with later versions. I hope it will not be removed > anytime soon. > > And 2.95 is ok to build both kernel 2.4 and 2.2 >
Eh, deja vu. We have yet libc5 and its toolchain around just to allow use and compilation of ancient code. When I asked for revoming due to an old grave bug, people answered almost the same: it's yet useful. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
