Removing ia32-libs and libstdc++5 from the seeds

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Tue Apr 3 21:07:51 BST 2007


On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 09:22:27AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2007/04/03 13:57 (GMT+0200) Reinhard Tartler apparently typed:
> 
> > Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com> writes:
> 
> >> I would like to remove ia32-libs and libstdc++5 from the seeds for feisty.
> 
> >>  - ia32-libs is seeded because it provides an i386 libstdc++5 library.
> 
> >>  - libstdc++5 is seeded, because some third party applications did need
> >>    it; there are less now than some months ago.
> 
> > Which "important" 3rd party still need libstdc++5? I remember the
> > sun-java sdk, what else?
> 
> Mozilla nightly builds of Firefox, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, etc.

Alexander, can you talk to Mozilla about this?  Is it still appropriate for
them to build with such old libraries?

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 - mdz



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