Why is 2.95 still around?

[Eric S. Johansson]

Michael Bienia wrote:
> 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.

another thing I found out today is that binutils will not compile with 
gcc-4.0 and I need to back down to 3.3ish in order to finish the IPCop 
compile.

---eric