On Thursday 18 December 2008, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Dan Horák wrote:
I have checked all packages that link with the "base" wxGTK library and no other package is affected, they all use wxGTK-devel.
I think we should have some guideline that such versioned Provides should be kept indefinitely and packages should use them where available.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Renaming.2Freplacin... (especially the last 2 paragraphs)
We encourage garbage collecting old cruft, keeping it around indefinitely should be a pretty rare exception for quite specific cases (or at least that's the way I remember it when we worked on it in FPC).
I suppose that a "should add specfile comment if some compatibility are intended to be kept around indefinitely" note should be added in the above doc though, currently it's only a "should" for the common case where stuff is intended to be cleaned up later.