Re: Libraries to move to oldlibs

2001-07-13 Thread Edward Betts
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 commer

Re: Libraries to move to oldlibs

2001-07-13 Thread Edward Betts
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Old libraries that no programs are using: > > libgmp2 (5 bugs), libgtk1 (3 bugs), libxdelta2 (0 bugs), plib1.3 (0 bugs) > > > > These libraries should be removed from Debian. > >... > > <-- snip --> > > Package: xdelta > Priority: optional > Section:

Re: Libraries to move to oldlibs

2001-07-13 Thread Edward Betts
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If it's relatively easy, I suppose I could move to it, but I'm deeply > reluctant to do that to man-db during the freeze. libc6 also has issues > with upgrading from potato that require a dependency on libdb2 (AIUI). > Please leave libdb2 where it is until

Re: Libraries to move to oldlibs

2001-07-13 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Edward Betts wrote: > What follows is a list of libraries that are included in Debian, outside the > oldlibs section. All of the libraries listed have a newer version available. > My question, is what should be done with these libraries? >... > libqt2 (2 bugs) - move to oldlib

Re: Libraries to move to oldlibs

2001-07-13 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Edward Betts wrote: >... > * Old libraries that no programs are using: > libgmp2 (5 bugs), libgtk1 (3 bugs), libxdelta2 (0 bugs), plib1.3 (0 bugs) > > These libraries should be removed from Debian. >... <-- snip --> Package: xdelta Priority: optional Section: utils Install

Re: Libraries to move to oldlibs

2001-07-12 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 02:31:16AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >libdb2 (1 bug) - lots of packages do not work with libdb3 (exim), and there > >are problems in with data files in the transition, leave the libdb2 its > >current place, or move it to oldlibs t

Re: Libraries to move to oldlibs

2001-07-12 Thread Colin Watson
Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >libdb2 (1 bug) - lots of packages do not work with libdb3 (exim), and there >are problems in with data files in the transition, leave the libdb2 its >current place, or move it to oldlibs to show that it is deprecated. Erk. I asked the maintainer a while ago

Re: Libraries to move to oldlibs

2001-07-12 Thread Edward Betts
Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > libxaw6 (0 bugs) - rosegarden (6 bugs) Just compiled rosegarden against libxaw7, seems to work fine, I have not tried executing it. > plib1 (0 bugs) - flightgear (10 bugs) Found that flightgear depends on simgear-dev, which depends on plib1-dev, which de

Libraries to move to oldlibs

2001-07-12 Thread Edward Betts
What follows is a list of libraries that are included in Debian, outside the oldlibs section. All of the libraries listed have a newer version available. My question, is what should be done with these libraries? * Old libraries that lots of programs still use: libasound1 (1 bug)- move it to oldlib