On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:55:15AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Ahh. And any old support isn't possible since it'd have to be built > > against glibc2.1, which means glibc2.1 would have to be available for > > woody, which it won't be since glibc2.2 is. > Er, so? We don't guarentee we can build everything in woody with stuff in > woody in an automated fashion. > > Include the binary from potato, and whatever source is required to keep > RMS happy and don't worry about it. The source is "gcc", which has been messed around with in woody. > We go through this every release, and we always do this. We *MUST* ship > the usual set of libsdtdc++'s because commercial apps, and apps from other > distributions use them, not to mention us :P libstdc++2.8, 2.9 and 2.10 shipped with potato; of those only 2.8 is still present in sid; which means all the others will be removed from woody sooner or later unless someone fixes this... Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you do not understand, cannot perceive, or don't care about, is too much.'' -- John S. Novak, III (The Humblest Man on the Net)
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