Hi,
With the latest release of Fedora37 we were hit with an issue
where the ncurses-compat-libs RPM had
been depreciated. Due to this some of the tools we use would
no longer install from their respective RPM's or their tar
based installs would not run as they needed the
libncurses*5.so shared libraries.
We use a number of software
packages for Electronics and Software development, some of
which are developed by organisations and companies outside of
Fedora. This includes things like ARM GCC compilers, FPGA
compilers, PCB tools, manufacturers utilities etc. Many of
these are built for Redhat7, being a good general and stable
base Linux system for these companies/organisations to target.
There are a few shared libraries that are commonly used and
ncurses is one of these.
I am wondering what Fedora's
policy is on depreciated old shared libraries and particularly
compat RPM's ?
If there isn't one, for the
benefit of users and making Fedora OS more generally useful,
can I suggest that relatively often used compat RPMS are kept
available at least while a major base system such as Redhat7
is still widely used as a build platform for external
companies/organisations and/or perhaps for at least 15? years
(or some defined time) after they become compat RPM's ?
Terry
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