Fedora packaging: unison?

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 21 July 2010 12:12, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> Thanks, but afaics that thread doesn't really answer any of my
> questions, it's just a bunch of yum technicalities about how the
> implementation of having two packages actually works. What I'm
> interested in is what was the original reason for having two branches
> packaged, and do we still need to do it (or even have 3).

In broad terms, later unison versions are not wire compatible with
earlier ones. i.e. unison developers regularly break wire
compatibility. Since people have a need to synchronize with machines
running different unison versions, multiple unison versions are needed
to be packaged, alas.

Jonathan