Policy proposal for compatibility packages
Tom "spot" Callaway
tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Jan 2 19:28:42 UTC 2008
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> There certainly should be an upper time limit after which the maintainer
> justifies why Fedora should still carry compatibility cruft. Sometimes
> packages (or other compatibility workarounds) get pushed release after
> release just because it's easier to keep them than to re-check if they
> can be killed at last.
I'd originally suggested that the existence of compat-* packages should
be rationalized by the maintainer as part of each release cycle.
Valid rationale could be (but is certainly not limited to):
- Fedora applications which are not yet ported to the new interface
- Third party applications which still depend on the old interface (that
the maintainer is aware of specifically, not "something might use it
someday")
~spot
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