On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 22:59 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
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.
>> """
>
> -1
>
> Closing out devel-packages closes out packages which require older
> APIs/ABIs from rebuilding.
>
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.
Hmm, I feel like reading a completely different text:
I read: "No Fedora packages may be built against them (compat-*)"
== Close out packages from Fedora which can't be built against upstream
packages.
I read: "Any -devel subpackage must be omitted via
the removal or exclusion of development-related files."
== NO devel files (comprising compat-*-devel packages) are allowed.
Ralf