Re: Should we have rpm package policies tying extension packages to the GNOME versions they'll work with?

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 01:40:39PM +0100, Frantisek Zatloukal wrote:
> Matthew, can you ask the GNOME folks if they have any plans about this? If
> the compatibility enforcement was to be disabled again, this "may not" (I
> am not 100 % sure about this) be necessary at all (the extensions worked
> throughout different GNOME versions before 40 just fine in the most cases,
> without any fixing and tweaking)?

Sure, or some of the folks on the desktop list here who might be already in
the know could chime in. :)

I kind of think it'd be useful to at least _alert_ maintainers and ask them
to test and update (either to a new version, or just patch the compat list
if the current one works), no matter what that setting ends up as.