22 Oct
2019
22 Oct
'19
11:31
Am 22.10.19 um 13:12 schrieb Simon Lees:
Then as the maintainer of that package no ones forcing you to drop the group you can keep it for as long as you need, but for those of us that are limited to calling osc mbranch and adding some more patches in our maintenance updates there's no reason not to drop them as we clean up our packages.
It would still be useful for many people in the community if it was possible to build current packages also on older releases.
The epel-rpm-macros in fedora are a really nice and useful example of a community that considers backwards compatibility at least to some extent.
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