On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 10:34 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: > 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. I think Extras is exactly the right place for them actually. They're not "Core" but many people would find them useful to have available. I still get lots of hits on the libcurl7112 package (for libcurl.so.2) in my personal repo, which might be a useful addition to Extras. Not sure about having devel subpackages of compat libraries though. Paul. -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
