Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet <at> gmail.com> writes: > So then don't make it a compat-* package. > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-February/msg01009.html This distinction you and Michael Schwendt are making between compat packages with or without the "compat-" prefix doesn't appear to be shared by all maintainers. I see the following packages in Rawhide matching compat-*-devel: compat-guichan05-devel-0.5.0-8.fc9.i386.rpm compat-guile-16-devel-1.6.7-7.fc8.i386.rpm compat-libosip2-devel-2.2.2-15.fc8.i386.rpm compat-wxGTK26-devel-2.6.4-2.i386.rpm By the way, the _only_ case where a compat package without a -devel package makes sense is for an ABI-only change where the new package is 100% API-compatible (and thus software can easily be rebuilt). Otherwise you're penalizing software which is built from source (and thus needs the -devel package) over software shipped as a binary (which can just use the compat library), which disadvantages Free Software, so it's counterproductive. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
