[Bug 220381] New: Review Request: flex-old - Legacy version of flex, a tool for creating scanners

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           Summary: Review Request: flex-old - Legacy version of flex, a
                    tool for creating scanners
           Product: Fedora Core
           Version: devel
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: normal
         Component: Package Review
        AssignedTo: nobody at fedoraproject.org
        ReportedBy: pmachata at redhat.com
         QAContact: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org
                CC: fedora-package-review at redhat.com,notting at redhat.com


Spec URL: http://people.redhat.com/~pmachata/flex-old.spec
SRPM URL: http://people.redhat.com/~pmachata/flex-old-2.5.4a-1.src.rpm
Description:

We are preparing to get reentrant flex (2.5.33) into Fedora Core. After the discussion with notting, we settled down on a following scenario: 

 * starting with FC7, the package flex will provide flex-2.5.33
 * in addition, flex-old will be provided, holding 2.5.4 branch of flex
 * the two packages don't conflict, it's possible to install them side by side

flex-old installs everything with the -old  suffix, e.g. /usr/bin/flex-old, /usr/lib/libfl-old.a.  Header file is in /usr/include/flex-old/FlexLexer.h, so that it's possible to request its inclusion via gcc's -I flag (dirs added with -I have precedence before system include directories).

The output of rpmlint is as follows:
$ rpmlint ../RPMS/i386/flex-old-2.5.4a-1.i386.rpm
W: flex-old devel-file-in-non-devel-package /usr/lib/libfl-old.a
W: flex-old devel-file-in-non-devel-package /usr/include/flex-old/FlexLexer.h

flex is of course development package itself, so the warnings should be ignored.

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