some minor Core pruning
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Tue Jun 13 01:19:31 UTC 2006
Tom Lane (tgl at redhat.com) said:
> Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> writes:
> > Library + binary packages required by nothing (could be killed, or moved):
> > mysqlclient10
> > mysqlclient14
>
> Those are compatibility packages to provide ABI compatibility for
> programs built against old versions of libmysqlclient.so. They were
> always intended to have a limited lifespan --- I don't see a reason to
> carry them forward into FC6, unless we want to offer them in RHEL5.
> Do we promise ABI compatibility across RHEL releases?
Yes, but RHEL != Fedora. There's no reason they *couldn't* be in
Extras.
I thought (wrongly?) that mysqlclient10 was still around because of
the MySQL LGPL -> GPL license change.
Bill
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