Hi,

Since my original proposal [1] was rejected, before there was even single attempt to improve my draft, I am moving this topic here in hope that somebody can build upon it:

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Always consider to let a nonversioned package to follow an upstream release versions. The other versions of package kept in Fedora for compatibility reasons should be either prefixed by compat- prefix or their name should be suffixed by version string.

For example, lets have in Fedora foo package of version 1.0 (foo-1.0) while upstream releases version 2.0.

1. If you are reasonably sure that the 1.0 version of foo package will be needed just temporary, then update the original package to foo-2.0 and introduce compat-foo-1.0 package. 2. If there might be more then one older version of library, then migrate the foo-1.0 to foo-2.0 and introduce the compatibility package foo1-1.0 or optionally foo10-1.0 package (the version in name depends on versioning scheme used by upstream).

Try to avoid foo2-2.0 package as much as possible, since it prevents innovation and make package version irrelevant.

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There was also a lot of valid feedback on FPC meeting [2], so I hope you guys are going to elaborate here.

Thank you.

Vit

[1] https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/227 [2] http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2012-10-24/fpc.2012-10-24-...