some minor Core pruning

Denis Leroy denis at poolshark.org
Mon Jun 12 23:45:34 UTC 2006


Tom Lane wrote:
> Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> writes:
> 
>>Library + binary packages required by nothing (could be killed, or moved):
>>mysqlclient10
>>mysqlclient14
> 
> 
> Those are compatibility packages to provide ABI compatibility for
> programs built against old versions of libmysqlclient.so.  They were
> always intended to have a limited lifespan --- I don't see a reason to
> carry them forward into FC6, unless we want to offer them in RHEL5.
> Do we promise ABI compatibility across RHEL releases?

mysqlclient10
mysqlclient14

If they're put up for adoption in Extras, I will probably pick them up 
(at least mysqlclient10) as I'll need them to package Glom and its 
compat-libgda.

-denis




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