-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/28/2013 12:47 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > One disclaimer to start off -- > > We're on a big tangent here. If I understood the original poster > correctly, he'd concerned about what we name parallel installable > versions of packages rather than whether we should have parallel > installable packages at all. > > That said, there's a lot to say about parallel installable packages > so I'll jump in here. > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 08:31:22AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 03/28/2013 08:30 AM, Jan Zelený wrote: >>> On 28. 3. 2013 at 12:59:44, Vít Ondruch wrote: >>>> Dne 28.3.2013 12:09, Florian Festi napsal(a): >>>>> This is done to make life easier for package maintainers. >>>> >>>> Sorry, you definitely not speak for me! This are just >>>> excuses. And I asked already several times to have some way >>>> to reliable support multiple version of packages without >>>> mangling their names. >>> >>> Víťo, I certainly understand your frustration, as it comes >>> from talking about this topic over and over again. However >>> Ruby community is a *very* special case in this regard and I'd >>> like to treat it as such. >>> >>> If you want, we can start a discussion here. But if we do, >>> let's keep the discussion strictly constructive and just about >>> *technical* problems. Let's not take this to design level of >>> things, as Ruby and Fedora are two completely different worlds >>> that will never be fully compatible by design. Therefore the >>> final solution (if there is any) has to be some sort of >>> compromise. >>> >> >> It's not just Ruby that has these issues, though. To take a >> python example: Django. Most Django packages are built against a >> specific minor version of Django, and the Django upstream >> regularly breaks backwards compatibility with those minor >> releases. >> >> It ends up requiring Fedora to carry multiple copies of >> python-django in the repo, usually versioning the older ones (so >> in the current situation, we have python-django and >> python-django14, with python-django referring to Django 1.5) > > Note: Is this a hypothetical? I'm unable to find a > python-django14 (or other versioned python-django) package build in > koji. Sorry, I forgot to reply to this. This was discussed on the thread http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-February/179185.html a while ago. The general sense was that we would function as above. I then promptly forgot that the package review hadn't yet been finished for python-django14. I'm about to approve that review, unless this is being deemed unacceptable by FPC (though it's not really in the guidelines). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlFcG3wACgkQeiVVYja6o6NaxgCeKBxLAz3eNs8Tr8P8icxzoLiU Z78AniyWtA4AtjtZlm9BO+7qqmJXVBzI =5Rxw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
