On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Patrice Dumas wrote:
Why not let the packagers decide for themselves?
It's just a policy, it's not Gods commandments. As a policy, we don't publish a plethora of compat-cruft. We (individual packagers) compromise any time we like as usual, and a maintainer with a soft spot for a certain compat-package can probably maintain it without problems.
I see it more like a guideline to the developer who is to make a decision: must I publish a compat-package or can I just discard the old API? Given some harsh words every here and there on breaking APIs you could easily get that impression. And then s/he knows that in Fedora, we love to discard old API:s.
So our community attracts people with this mindset and so forth. Linus -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
