On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:35:02PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > 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. BTW I was just trying to describe current usage of compat-*, I'm not against supplying Fedora users some libs that perhaps Fedora itself doesn't need anymore, but maybe a (significant?) amount of users still do. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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