On 2023-02-18 at 03:08 UTC, Gordon Messmer wrote:
The point where compatibility becomes an issue is the use of old packages or third-party packages that don't Provide versioned virtual packages to fulfill the requirements of Fedora packages. Because Fedora package dependencies must be fulfilled entirely by other Fedora packages as a matter of policy, this potential incompatibility really only affects packages that are intended to replace a Fedora package. Those would need to be built with the improved ELF dependency generator in order to satisfy the requirements of Fedora packages.
About once per year I find it necessary or convenient to use /usr/bin/alien (provided by Fedora package alien-8.95-18.fc36.noarch, for instance) to import one or more Debian .deb package into Fedora as .rpm. I don't see how this could work with the proposed change, unless 'alien' is significantly enhanced. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
