Re: Removing old and broken and/or insecure packages

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 02:51:55PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
>     Date:        Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:10:38 +0000
>     From:        Dave <dave%email2.asnetinc.net@localhost>
>     Message-ID:  <20100120062128.3CBD263B12C%mail.netbsd.org@localhost>
> 
>   | > cross/h8300-hms-gcc (3.8a, ancient GCC)
>   | 
>   | I'd prefer if you don't remove this,
> 
> Yes, me too, I've also used the cross/h8300-* packages to compile
> code for a development board that uses one of that processor family.
> 
> It really doesn't matter (for this kind of thing) how "old" the
> compiler is, just as long as it works reasonably well, and I think
> this one does (for the kind of use it gets, the new glop that's
> in newer versions of gcc tends to be more hindrance than assistance.)

In that case, please spend some time to make it actually buildable with
modern GCC...

Joerg