Hi,

With the latest release of Fedora37 we were hit with an issue where the ncurses-compat-libs RPM had been depreciated. Due to this some of the tools we use would no longer install from their respective RPM's or their tar based installs would not run as they needed the libncurses*5.so shared libraries.

We use a number of software packages for Electronics and Software development, some of which are developed by organisations and companies outside of Fedora. This includes things like ARM GCC compilers, FPGA compilers, PCB tools, manufacturers utilities etc. Many of these are built for Redhat7, being a good general and stable base Linux system for these companies/organisations to target. There are a few shared libraries that are commonly used and ncurses is one of these.

I am wondering what Fedora's policy is on depreciated old shared libraries and particularly compat RPM's ?

If there isn't one, for the benefit of users and making Fedora OS more generally useful, can I suggest that relatively often used compat RPMS are kept available at least while a major base system such as Redhat7 is still widely used as a build platform for external companies/organisations and/or perhaps for at least 15? years (or some defined time) after they become compat RPM's ?

Terry