[Bug 490397] Review Request: compat-gmime - Library for creating and parsing MIME messages

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--- Comment #15 from Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>  2009-03-18 01:33:18 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> (In reply to comment #8)
> > One comment, for naming:
> > 
> > - On Fedora, "compat-" package meant is to provide binary compatibility
> >   for old applications and no packages on Fedora are allowed to
> >   build against "compat-" package, c.f.
> >   http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-February/msg01009.html
> >   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432310#c7
> > 
> > If this package wants to provide -devel subpackage, this must
> > be named differently.  
> 
> That can't be true across the board.  For example compat-libosip2 provides a
> shared library that linphone (and other apps) link against.

Yes, even _me_ didn't know this (i.e. the meaning of "compat-") before
(actually I approved "compat-guile-16"), but I have already seen
that many reviewers say that "compat-" is meant as so.

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