Libraries disappearing from compat-libstdc++-296

[Gordon Messmer]

William M. Quarles wrote:
> 
> I'm using Fedora 8 on my laptop. The library known as 
> "libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2" isn't there, which I need to run Maple 7 on 
> my computer. This should be a part of the compat-libstdc++-296 RPM, as 
> this library was originally a part of RHL 7.3 and 8.0 in libstdc++, and 
> available in the compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.118 RPM for RHL 9. Does 
> anybody know why this file was removed from the compat-libstdc++-296 
> RPM, and what I can do to get it from the SRPM again? (I'm guessing 
> theoretcially it should still be part of the source code.)

Apparently that library was intentionally removed:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=225371

...which seems odd.  I can't see how the compat-libstdc++-296 package 
actually provides compatibility with binaries that were built with gcc 
2.96.  It appears to be useless?  Brilliant!