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.
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