Re: Removing old and broken and/or insecure packages

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

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 01:05:33PM +0000, Dave wrote:
> I knew I was in the minority here ... I just didn't realize that I was
> half of it.  Even if I had the time to devote to making it buildable on
> today's GCC, there's no way that a community of two can possibly keep
> the thing maintained when tomorrow's GCC comes out.

I can understand that. My priority here is to have a package that
builds (and hopefully is usable). That's the only way to ensure that it
doesn't bitrot even further. Hacking GCC sources to build with newer
versions of GCC is not exactly fun, I know.

Joerg