On Sat, 2016-10-08 at 13:37 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Tomas Mraz wrote:
> > At worst if the patching of a package is highly non-trivial and the
> > upstream is not responsive we might have to drop the package from
> > Fedora.
> > 
> > We do not want to keep 1.0.2 devel around as that could make it to look
> > like the 1.0.2 is still fully "supported" in Fedora and there would be
> > no incentive to switch to 1.1.0. Also to get any new features from
> > upstream OpenSSL we have to move to newer versions as they are released
> > as the old versions get only bug fixes.
> 
> IMHO, this is not acceptable. If the API of a library changes enough to 
> warrant a compat package, you have to provide the -devel for the compat 
> package as well. Dropping all the packages that don't build against the new 
> incompatible version from Fedora is not a reasonable plan.

I think the idea is that we fix them, not drop them.

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dwmw2

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