new RPM version and Feature process (was: Re: Heads-up: brand new RPM version about to hit rawhide)

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 20:41:31 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:

> Though I do foresee *cough* certain people *cough* complaining about
> how their spec they've used unchanged since RHL 6.2 no longer builds,
> and accuses us of "breaking things" and "actively sabotaging" RPM...
> So this should probably get prominent notice in the release notes, at
> least.

Oh, that will get funny anyway if packagers start using the new features,
such as %{patches}, and run into problems when mass-copying their
%{dist}-poisoned spec files to older branches. ;)