It was discussed recently but I do not remember somebody from Mandrake to
comment on it.
The problem is, when updating libstdc++ to cooker (gcc-2.96) old one
(gcc-2.95) is lost. That has a number of problems:
- people may have local SW that depends on old library and cannot be updated
(for whatever reason)
- it unneccessarily complicates partial update to cooker packages. Many people
are interested in it (just browse usenet), but the lack of compatibility
library makes updateing too hard for normal users.
Just linking with to libstdc++ does not always help - at least update-menus
does not work in this case.
Actually, the first is enough to maintain compatibility library. Cooker does
contain compatible libstdc++ for much older distro - why is 7.2 forgotten?
-andrej
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