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.
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