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[Kevin Kofler]

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet <at> gmail.com> writes:
> So then don't make it a compat-* package.
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-February/msg01009.html

This distinction you and Michael Schwendt are making between compat packages 
with or without the "compat-" prefix doesn't appear to be shared by all 
maintainers. I see the following packages in Rawhide matching compat-*-devel:
compat-guichan05-devel-0.5.0-8.fc9.i386.rpm
compat-guile-16-devel-1.6.7-7.fc8.i386.rpm
compat-libosip2-devel-2.2.2-15.fc8.i386.rpm
compat-wxGTK26-devel-2.6.4-2.i386.rpm

By the way, the _only_ case where a compat package without a -devel package 
makes sense is for an ABI-only change where the new package is 100% 
API-compatible (and thus software can easily be rebuilt). Otherwise you're 
penalizing software which is built from source (and thus needs the -devel 
package) over software shipped as a binary (which can just use the compat 
library), which disadvantages Free Software, so it's counterproductive.

        Kevin Kofler