Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

[Orion Poplawski]

On 09/11/2015 07:51 AM, Petr Pisar wrote:
> On 2015-09-11, Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac at redhat.com> wrote:
>> My complain here is about packaging libraries.
>> And just because a library has been upgraded from version .so.2 to version 
>> .so.4  and you can't have both (as the new one replaces old one by Fedora 
>> policy) 
> 
> You can.
> 
> AFAIK policy does not forbid it. The think that hinders you from having
> both of them are repository tools (etc.) that does not support multiple
> versions of the same package name.
> 
> You can work around it by packaging the old version under a new package
> name. AFAIK there was a (passed) proposal for fast reviews in case of
> renaming packages. That applies exactly for this case.

Right - currently we do this with compat- packages.  Fedora tends to avoid
them to avoid having to maintain two versions of the same library and due do
some desire to always be on the newest code, but if someone wants to package
it, they are free to do so.


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