John Hasler sent in a patch to do this (which still wouldn't make it compile
for me). This reminded me that I had tackled this myself when my distro moved
to gcc-4 a while back. It turned out I had never even checked in the file from
the working copy I was using (!). Anyway, here it is now.
This is a verbatim copy of the files at that stage of the repository that was
built from the CVS import. It allows future development to see a bit of recent
history, but without carrying around the baggage going back to 1997. If that
is really required, git grafts can be used.