On 12 Oct 1998, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > Jason> I'm just going to assume this was discussed on policy > Jason> before mass bug filings were done. libstdc++2.8 -MUST- be > Jason> in slink, we can't release without it as too many 3rd party > Jason> things need it. Yes apt in slink should use 2.9 but it was > Jason> not a release goal to migrate libstdc++ in slink.. > > I think you should submit a grave bug on libstdc++ then.
I brought this up on debian-devel over a month ago, the consensus was it should come back. I think though that the new egcs cannot compile libstdc++2.8 which is why it can't come back, but it -needs- to come back :< Jason

