On Tuesday, 06 December 2022 at 07:43, Terry Barnaby wrote: [...] > My view is that compat versions of the commonly used shared libraries > for programs that are used on Redhat7 should be kept available until > most people are not producing programs for that system at least > +nyears and then I guess Redhat8 once that really becomes a core base > platform that external people use. A core list of these (there are > only a few) could be kept somewhere and when one is to be depreciated, > or users see problems when Fedora is updated, a decision on this can > be then made with that info. This would keep the Fedora system > relevant for more users needs without too much work.
Well, that is still *some* work and someone would have to do it. Are you volunteering? > In the case of ncurses, it is really just putting back into the SPEC > file that which was removed for F37 plus the extra storage on mirrors > for the compat RPM's. If it's "just" that, why don't you do it yourself? Obviously, the current ncurses maintainer decided it was time to drop the old v5 ABI compat libs from the package. However, nothing is stopping you from picking that up and maintaining an "ncurses5" package for as long as you need it. Regards, Dominik -- Fedora https://getfedora.org | RPM Fusion http://rpmfusion.org There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
