Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 21:43 -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:I would like for the Packaging group to discuss the following policy: """ compat-* packages ----------------- compat-* packages are for the sole purpose of providing obsolescent/obsolete libraries required by non-Fedora applications. No Fedora packages may be built against them, and no application packages may use the compat- namespace. Any -devel subpackage must be omitted via the removal or exclusion of development-related files. """
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If I'm reading the proposal correctly, this is more of a naming convention than a limitation on whether packages of libraries with older APIs can be created. On that basis, I'm +1.-1 Closing out devel-packages closes out packages which require older APIs/ABIs from rebuilding.
-Toshio
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