I've got some questions about compatibility packages, and whether they are in the scope of Fedora Extras when nothing in Extras needs them. Obviously if a compat package is needed to build/run something in extras, it belongs in Extras for repo-closure (unless it is in core). The gstreamer08 packages are an example. A bugzilla I have open now is for the fc4 (gnome 2.10) version of gtkhtml3. When I opened it, an upstream package I maintained did not work with gnome 2.12 or newer. Then it worked, but was quite buggy. Finally (after testing on my own machine for a few days, it just went through the build system for fc5) upstream has a new version that as far as I can tell, works just as well as the older version that was coded for gnome 2.10. But I'm still willing to maintain the 3.6.x version of gtkhtml3 simply because I think Fedora needs to be more backwards compatible when it comes to shared libraries, especially since the official line now is to discourage static linking to the point where static libraries are not wanted in our packages. Every update of gnome - someone on some list or forum has problems because libgtkhtml changed its shared library, and I think that when possible (no file conflicts and someone is willing to maintain them), compat versions should be readily available. But do they belong in Extras if nothing in extras uses them, or should I maybe subscribe to yet another list (Fedora Legacy) and see if maybe some other people there want to make a "legacy library" repo for current versions of Fedora? Backwards compatibility is important to me, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. When things are built against shared libraries which is the better way to do it, backwards compatibility can only be obtained if the older shared libraries are easily available from *somewhere*. But if the consensus is that they shouldn't be in Extras unless needed by an Extras package, I'm willing to campaign for a repo elsewhere. I'd just like to know how people here feel about it. -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
