diff --git a/future/1.2.2/libstdcpp/libstdcpp-external.toml b/future/1.2.2/libstdcpp/libstdcpp-external.toml
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+++ b/future/1.2.2/libstdcpp/libstdcpp-external.toml
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+name = "libstdcpp"
+description = "libraries for statically linking with c++ - development files"
+maintainers = ["Jan <janv@uic.edu>"]
+maintainers-logins = ["janverschelde"]
+[[external]]
+kind = "system"
+   [external.origin."case(distribution)"]
+   "fedora" = ["libstdc++-static"]
diff --git a/future/README.md b/future/README.md
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+++ b/future/README.md
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+Crates that require some future feature or bugfix.
+
+The versions under this folder are future index versions.
+
+## Future crates
+
+- `libstdcpp`: requires a bugfix in alr 2.0 for package names in rpm-based
+  distros that contain characters that have special meanings in regexes (like
+the '+' in `libstdc++-static`
diff --git a/index/ph/phcpack/phcpack-2.4.88.toml b/index/ph/phcpack/phcpack-2.4.88.toml
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index 000000000..bb370408f
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+++ b/index/ph/phcpack/phcpack-2.4.88.toml
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+name = "phcpack"
+version = "2.4.88"
+description = "Polynomial Homotopy Continuation"
+long-description = "PHCpack is research software to solve systems of polynomial equations with homotopy continuation."
+licenses = "GPL-3.0-only"
+authors = ["Jan Verschelde"]
+maintainers = ["Jan <janv@uic.edu>"]
+maintainers-logins = ["janverschelde"]
+website = "https://github.com/janverschelde/PHCpack"
+project-files = ["phclib.gpr", "main.gpr"]
+executables = ["phc"]
+
+[origin]
+commit = "e448e94a57b051aea79b033c37eb490aa93d0077"
+url = "git+https://github.com/janverschelde/PHCpack.git"