"Andrej Borsenkow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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?
is fixed in last egcs package.
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