On Tue, 2020-09-15 at 14:10 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-09-15 at 13:46 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> >
> > The compat- prefix is no longer allowed. Instead we should be using
> > versioned package names.
>
> Why?
> The "compat-" prefix clearly indicated the .so was provided
> exclusively
> for backward binary compatibility and shouldn't be relied upon in
> other
> packages.
>
Provided ${libname}-devel pulls the latest, main version instead of one
of the older versions, hopefully there is no confusion which version is
meant to be used?
(That being said, when using other virtual provides such as
'pkgconfig(pcname)' it doesn't matter whether the package is versioned
or prefixed with compat- anyway, as that won't make a difference from
the call site).
> A bare name conveys nothing and risk introducing dependencies later
> instead of slowly draining out dependencies until it can be removed
> again.
>
> > So if we're changing the old one, it'll become openssl1.0 to comply
> > with current guidelines.
>
> I think having a package named openssl1.0 or openssl1.1 would lead to
> more confusion, not less.
>
> Simo.
>
>
Anyone familiar with how this works in practice for Debian (and
derivatives) and, IIRC, Mageia? They've been using versioned packages
for years so if there are potential confusions they ought to have
encountered them before.
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