Compat- packages in Fedora

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

So, here's another one I wanted to get some opinions on.

If, and when, like me, you are suicidal enough to have your servers run 
Fedora, and for some foolish reason you decide to install zope/plone, 
you will need python2.4 which is like from the Core era (or before, 
dunno, don't care, looking forward, history is overrated).

A lot of effort has been made towards building a python2.4 compat 
package, so that those that really really needed it could at least grab 
it from a repository where a bugzilla was attached and more of that 
"collaborative" and "upstream".

It has worked well... in fact, it has worked very very well. However, 
the compat-python2.4 package was not accepted for inclusion in Fedora, 
for various reasons I cannot recall right now. Seemingly endless threads 
on the -devel list is about all I remember.

The point of this message being; How do the other members of the Server 
SIG rate the importance of compat-/legacy tools and utilities being 
available in Fedora (rather then in the more-then-insignificant 
third-party-repository we all know about but do not dare mention)?

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip