Explicit versioning of library names [was Re: package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit]

[Matthias Runge]

On 04/04/2013 08:21 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> 
> After  sending this I saw mrunge's announcement of updating the
> python-django package to 1.5 in rawhide and talked to sgallagh on irc.
>  I misunderstood the basic plan, so there's no guidelines
> incompatibility here :-)
> 
> The plan is to release python-djangoVERSION compat packages every time
> the main python-django package updates.  The old python-djangoVERSION
> compat packages will also be retired when upstream django ends support
> for that release.
Correct and exactly what I meant.

I'd love not to do this, but for compat reasons, we need to keep those
versioned names for a limited time.
-- 
Matthias Runge <mrunge at matthias-runge.de>