Hi, I sent this inquiry to the current maintainer and the wnpp maintainer but haven't yet received any reply, so I thought I'd ask here.
In a nutshell, the situation is this: There is a package called binutils-m68k-palmos-coff that is part of a cross-compiler to compile programs to run on a PalmPilot. However, by itself it is largely useless. One also need the gcc and gdb packages. However, gcc-m68k-palmos-coff and gdb-m68k-palmos-coff are both orphaned, and the binutils-m68k-palmos-coff is outdated. (One actually needs pilrc as well, but that is from a separate source tree and not at issue here.) So, last weekend I packaged up prc-tools (which containcs the m68k-palmos-coff of all three of those programs, as in the upstream version). It has newer binutils than the binutils-m68k-palmos-coff package. prc-tools properly conflicts, replaces, and provides the older packages. This in all is a Good Thing since gcc-m68k-palmos-coff and gdb-m68k-palmos-coff are dropped, and without gcc at least, binutils-m68k-palmos-coff is pretty well useless. So, since we have newer, working versions of all these tools, should binutils-m68k-palmos-coff be removed? This is the question I asked its maintainer but haven't heard back yet. My reccommendation would be to remove binutils-m68k-palmos-coff. In any case, the gcc and gdb m68k-palmos-coff packages can be removed from the wnpp list since working versions now exist. John -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Visit the Air Capitol Linux Users Group on the web at http://www.aclug.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]