Tomas Mraz wrote:
> At worst if the patching of a package is highly non-trivial and the
> upstream is not responsive we might have to drop the package from
> Fedora.
>
> We do not want to keep 1.0.2 devel around as that could make it to look
> like the 1.0.2 is still fully "supported" in Fedora and there would be
> no incentive to switch to 1.1.0. Also to get any new features from
> upstream OpenSSL we have to move to newer versions as they are released
> as the old versions get only bug fixes.
IMHO, this is not acceptable. If the API of a library changes enough to
warrant a compat package, you have to provide the -devel for the compat
package as well. Dropping all the packages that don't build against the new
incompatible version from Fedora is not a reasonable plan.
Kevin Kofler
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