Policy proposal for compatibility packages
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Jan 2 18:53:37 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Change your terminology to 'pre-compiled' and 're-compiled' because it
> really doesn't relate to code being proprietary or not, only when it was
> compiled. And then you also see why the -devel doesn't matter.
That assumes the Free programs you're rebuilding actually rebuild against the
new version of the library. The #1 reason compat libraries are needed is that
this is not the case (due to API changes).
Kevin Kofler
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