On Friday 19 December 2008, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Ville Skyttä wrote: > > We encourage garbage collecting old cruft, keeping it around indefinitely > > should be a pretty rare exception for quite specific cases (or at least > > that's the way I remember it when we worked on it in FPC). > > Once again, a Provides with a version number attached is *not* old cruft, > it's both backwards and *forwards* thinking, because another new major > version will inevitably happen. This thinking sounds even worse - it is not only about preservation cruft in Provides, but it prepares things so that it is usual/expected and easier to ship cruft as several versions of packages, and thus more or less encourages it. I thought we had guidelines how to do compat-* packages properly and some guidelines about their life cycle but it appears I'm wrong or just can't find it now :( -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
