On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 11:34:45AM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 18:32 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > > Well, what does that mean for compat-packages in general? Should each of > > those have a limited life time as well? Or do we need other rules like > > "packages from the repo are not allowed to use or link against compat > > packages in the devel tree at release time of a Fedora release"? > > Probably. Jeremy Katz was working on a draft that says as much, > although, I haven't seen it yet. I hope it will only be a best effort and not a requirement... I have used g77 (which is in a compat package) for quite a long time, and I maintain a libnet10 compat package for those who want to use the old api and I hope that it won't be forbidden. Of course we should push upstream to use recent libraries, but we are not in control. -- Pat -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
