Le mardi 11 novembre 2008 à 00:16 -0500, Jon Masters a écrit : > On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 00:23 +0200, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: > > > db-4.1 was last the system DB library in RHEL 3/FC1. > > What's the point of a "compat" library if not to support software built > for such systems? Compat libraries are here to help transitions within the repository, when some packages have been rebuilt to use the new version and others — not. They're killed as soon as this transition is complete because: — compat libraries have their own maintainer cost, and we don't want to pay it when there are no in-distro users — as long as they're available there's the risk someone adds a new package depending on them in the repo, making the transition go backwards Thus compat libraries represent a grace period for everyone to transition gracefully. That some ISVs do not want to understand this and wait till the grace period is over to realise they need to do some work is something you should take with those ISVs. Fedora/RHEL provided a grace period, they chose not to use it. It's the same problem as users wanting to block xorg releases till nvidia supported the new APIs, while nvidia waits for new releases to be official to start working on those APIs. Bad service from ISVs that do proprietary software, nothing less. -- Nicolas Mailhot
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