Bug#930695: libstdc++6 dependencies list is huge
On 18.06.19 20:21, alejandro-colomar wrote:
> Package: libstdc++6
> Version: 6.3.0-18+deb9u1
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
>
> * What led up to the situation?
>
> Installing g++-8 on Debian Stretch through the Debian Buster
> repository. Previously (some months ago) this was possible;
> I've done it several times, but some day, the dependencies
> changed, and when I updated g++, my system broke (I didn't check
> the warning from apt-get, which I should have done). When I
> did a clean install of Debian 9, I tried to do it again, and
> found that the dependencies of g++ caused xorg to be removed,
> and tracked it down to libstdc++6.
don't do that. it's not supported to install packages on releases that they are
not built for. You could build gcc-8 on your own, if you want.
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