Ready for new RPM version?
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Thu Feb 26 19:44:49 UTC 2009
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 11:41 -0800, John Reiser wrote:
> Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Panu Matilainen (pmatilai at laiskiainen.org) said:
> >> So, should I bother with a RPM 4.7 feature page or not?
>
> > - does it change the output package format in any way that would
> > make packages unreadable by prior versions?
>
> If the output package format is not 100% usable by previous versions of rpm
> (all the way back to the rpm that was in the original Fedora 9 release)
> then such a change is forbidden without explicit migration and
> compatibility features. Not only would that require a feature page,
> it requires testing for a full release cycle.
"forbidden"? Forbidden by whom?
I'm curious where you're pulling all of this declarative language from.
-sv
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