On 09/11/2015 07:51 AM, Petr Pisar wrote: > On 2015-09-11, Zdenek Kabelac <zkabe...@redhat.com> wrote: >> My complain here is about packaging libraries. >> And just because a library has been upgraded from version .so.2 to version >> .so.4 and you can't have both (as the new one replaces old one by Fedora >> policy) > > You can. > > AFAIK policy does not forbid it. The think that hinders you from having > both of them are repository tools (etc.) that does not support multiple > versions of the same package name. > > You can work around it by packaging the old version under a new package > name. AFAIK there was a (passed) proposal for fast reviews in case of > renaming packages. That applies exactly for this case.
Right - currently we do this with compat- packages. Fedora tends to avoid them to avoid having to maintain two versions of the same library and due do some desire to always be on the newest code, but if someone wants to package it, they are free to do so. -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane or...@nwra.com Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.nwra.com -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
