[Bug 220381] 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


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220381


pmachata at redhat.com changed:

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------- Additional Comments From pmachata at redhat.com  2006-12-21 12:51 EST -------
> Yes, but all of these are moving to Extras with the merger.

Oh, I idn't know that.  So I'll have to set up extras account sooner or later. 
Good to know.

> Yes, but all of these are moving to Extras with the merger.  Unless there is
> specific reason (needed to build something else) for this new package to go 
> into Core, it must go into Extras instead.

Well, that will turn out.  The whole point of providing compat flex is that the
changes between 2.5.4 and 2.5.33 were very internal, and there are lots of them.
 I don't want to be stuck with the same ancient version of flex forever, .33 has
interesting features, and people are requesting it for some time already.  But
on the other hand, I don't dare upgrade without a fallback.  So some components
actually may end up with BuildRequires: compat-flex, although this should be
rare, and hopefully temporary.

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