On Sat, 2016-10-08 at 13:37 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > 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. I think the idea is that we fix them, not drop them. -- dwmw2
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