On 21 July 2010 12:12, Adam Williamson <awill...@redhat.com> wrote: > Thanks, but afaics that thread doesn't really answer any of my > questions, it's just a bunch of yum technicalities about how the > implementation of having two packages actually works. What I'm > interested in is what was the original reason for having two branches > packaged, and do we still need to do it (or even have 3).
In broad terms, later unison versions are not wire compatible with earlier ones. i.e. unison developers regularly break wire compatibility. Since people have a need to synchronize with machines running different unison versions, multiple unison versions are needed to be packaged, alas. Jonathan -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
