[fab] Fw: [Bug 174307] RPM 4.4.6 is available

[Josh Boyer]

On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 19:12 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> Really there are two issues.

Three.

> 
> 1) Are we going to use the latest upstream rpm version?
> 
> 2) Are we going to continue using upstream rpm at all?

<snip perfectly valid answer for #1>

> #2 is a far more complicated question, one that SHOULD involve the board and 
> the community, and is noted to be on the boards plate.

Good to know.

> How we got to this point was the goals we had in mind for this release and 
> last.  They were incompatible with a major change to RPM.  Plain and simple.

And that brings up 3.  

3) Communication on such things with the community.

The above is a perfectly valid statement as to why RPM has not been
upgraded in Core.  Why couldn't someone simply add a comment to the bug
saying so?  Instead, it was left completely unanswered until it turned
into the flamefest it is now.

josh