On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 09:43:38PM -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. > """ > > This policy would not be enforced retroactively (although maintainer > compliance should be welcomed). Usually the kind of packages you describe simply vanish from rawhide - e.g. if there is no use for a non-leaf package it is very soon removed. Most current compat-* packages are used for some other Fedora package, or at least that was the case some time ago - maybe that changed. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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