Policy proposal for compatibility packages

Denis Leroy denis at poolshark.org
Thu Jan 3 15:03:39 UTC 2008


Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:42:35 +0100
> Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:
> 
>> Why not let the packagers decide for themselves? Packagers should
>> decide on their own how the spend their time best. This should not be
>> in the scope of FESCO.
>>
>> I can't really see how compat-packages could be a threat to Fedoras 
>> release cycles.
>>
>> Not trusting packagers is a threat for fedora.
> 
> When those compat packages start failing to rebuild, that slows us
> down.  When too many of our packages rely on those compat packages,
> that slows us down.  When the package maintainer for the non-compat
> package gets bogged down with bug reports and requests for assistance
> with the -compat package problems that slows us down.

Well this isn't really specific to compat packages...




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