On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:27:45 +0000 (UTC), Kevin Kofler wrote: > 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 Notice that that last one on that list is mine. ;) And I regret that I used the compat- namespace like other packages around that time (e.g. the previous compat-wxGTK version). > 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). Have you ever wondered why Fedora still includes compat-libstdc++-296 and compat-libstdc++-33 and how they are built? > 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. I've read that section twice, but still don't understand it. See the lengthy paragraph in this thread I referred to earlier, Message-Id: <20080214130348.1e17f695.mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> it gives the background. There is no penalty involved at all. Fedora doesn't ship prebuilt binaries in packages that cannot be rebuilt. I do not demand that an older xerces-c must be built as a compat- package without any means to rebuild other packages against it. I only request that if the alternative version of a library is meant to be for concurrent development, it ought not be shipped as a compat- package, but as a xerces-c27 and xerces-c27-devel pair of packages. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
