[Bug 431091] Re: libstdc++5 removal breaks non-ubuntu applications

[hawthornso23]

These libraries don't need community support. They don't even need to be
in the default distro. However they DO need to be available in the
repositaries so that those who discover they need them (like swiss
people trying to do their taxes) can install them in the usual way.

If you try to run an application and it complains about a missing
libstdc++5 you should just be able to go to synaptic and search for
libstdc++5 and install it that way. That is the way ubuntu users expect
things to work. You shouldn't have to go trolling the internet to find
the missing library and look for a recipe on some untrusted website
telling you how to install it. That is where this is going and it is a
step backwards.

To refuse to even put the libraries in the repositaries breaks the
ubuntu software package management and installation model. If you force
people to go around installing libraries manually to get legacy
applications to run - well that is precisely the kind of mess that
package management software is supposed to help us avoid.

There is a lot of stuff available through synaptic that isn't community
supported. Put a disclaimer on it or whatever. But don't break the
package management system in this arbitrary way.

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libstdc++5 removal breaks non-ubuntu applications
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/431091
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