On 21.11.2009 06:20, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Steve Langasek:It's been suggested to me that it might help Debian move forward on this issue if I provide some background on why Canonical has chosen to not regard this issue as critical for Ubuntu.My personal impression is that Debian does not view this issue as critical, either. Switching the GCC default hasn't happened for other reasons.
Which are these reasons? I'm not aware of any other reasons. Maybe it's not the best thing to start with this until the eglibc/libstdc++ issue on hppa is resolved, but this would affect one architecture only.
Matthias