Policy proposal for compatibility packages

[Jesse Keating]

On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:42:59 +0100
Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:

> The proposal IMHO tries to solve the problem the wrong way. Having
> compat-packages in the repo is not the biggest problem -- other apps
> in Fedora using those compat-packages IMHO is what we should prevent.

There is a difference between compatible library packages and
compatible development packages.  Compatible libraries make long term
sense.  Compat development packages don't.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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