I did not run into this until now because Karmic had other deal breakers
for me. Now that those are gone in Lucid here is an even bigger one.

>From the time passed it looks like this is not going to get fixed?

There is a real world out there and it is not purple. Some of us have to use 
software that is one or more of proprietary, binary, and old. No recompile 
possible. 
The suggested fix is possible, but that is besides the point. One reason for a 
comprehensive package management system is to not have to do things like this. 
Why should I jump through the hoops setup by Mr. Kitterman and Mr. Young when 
it would have taken one of them less time to package the library instead?
After all, libstdc++5 is still in debian testing (eventually to be squeeze) and 
unstable. Why remove it and not simply leave it in? It breaks nothing but makes 
live easier for dozens and probably hundreds of people. Do something nice and 
don't be like the Redmond guys.

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libstdc++5 removal breaks non-ubuntu applications
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