Martin Michlmayr writes: > Is there a good reason to keep libstdc++2.8? It has not made the FHS > transition, is out of date, and no package depends on it. > > Can it be removed?
AFAICR some netscape package depended on it (or plugins for netscape). Newer netscape packages don't depend on it anymore (at least for i386). For i386, removal should be safe. At least the package can be fetched from potato if needed.