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.
Kevin Kofler