[Fedora-packaging] Re: compat package policy

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Tue Feb 19 22:58:12 UTC 2008


On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:35:02PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 09:43:38PM -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> > I would like for the Packaging group to discuss the following policy:
> > 
> > """
> > compat-* packages
> > -----------------
> > 
> > compat-* packages are for the sole purpose of providing
> > obsolescent/obsolete libraries required by non-Fedora applications. No
> > Fedora packages may be built against them, and no application packages
> > may use the compat- namespace. Any -devel subpackage must be omitted via
> > the removal or exclusion of development-related files.
> > """
> > 
> > This policy would not be enforced retroactively (although maintainer
> > compliance should be welcomed).
> 
> Usually the kind of packages you describe simply vanish from rawhide -
> e.g. if there is no use for a non-leaf package it is very soon
> removed.
> 
> Most current compat-* packages are used for some other Fedora package,
> or at least that was the case some time ago - maybe that changed.

BTW I was just trying to describe current usage of compat-*, I'm not
against supplying Fedora users some libs that perhaps Fedora itself
doesn't need anymore, but maybe a (significant?) amount of users still
do.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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