[Fedora-packaging] Re: compat package policy

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Wed Feb 20 09:18:17 UTC 2008


Le mardi 19 février 2008 à 23:35 +0200, Axel Thimm a écrit :

> 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.

+1

IMHO the most important property of compat packages is not that they
have a devel conterpart or not, but that we clearly tell packagers "this
bit is not to be used and will be removed mid-term". Restricting the
compat naming to link-only packages will only make this removal process
harder, as a lot of stuff will move to packages with no clear EOL
target.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

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