Why is 2.95 still around?

[Michael Bienia]

On 2005-11-09 14:08:22 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> I'm curious why gcc-2.95 or even gcc-3.3 is still in the archives? Is
> there a mistrust for newer stuff or something related to stability as
> is the case with 2.4 and 2.6 kernels? Thanks...

Some packages get miscompiled with gcc-4.0 on some architectures and
need to be compiled with an older gcc. I assume this is the case for
still having gcc-3.3 around. I don't know if this also applies to Ubuntu
as it doesn't support as many architectures as Debian.

Michael