Hi,
With the latest release of Fedora37 we were hit with an issue where the
ncurses-compat-libs RPM had been depreciated. Due to this some of the
tools we use would no longer install from their respective RPM's or
their tar based installs would not run as they needed the
libncurses*5.so shared libraries.
We use a number of software packages for Electronics and Software
development, some of which are developed by organisations and companies
outside of Fedora. This includes things like ARM GCC compilers, FPGA
compilers, PCB tools, manufacturers utilities etc. Many of these are
built for Redhat7, being a good general and stable base Linux system for
these companies/organisations to target. There are a few shared
libraries that are commonly used and ncurses is one of these.
I am wondering what Fedora's policy is on depreciated old shared
libraries and particularly compat RPM's ?
If there isn't one, for the benefit of users and making Fedora OS more
generally useful, can I suggest that relatively often used compat RPMS
are kept available at least while a major base system such as Redhat7 is
still widely used as a build platform for external
companies/organisations and/or perhaps for at least 15? years (or some
defined time) after they become compat RPM's ?
Terry
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