Ready for new RPM version?
Jon Ciesla
limb at jcomserv.net
Thu Feb 26 17:45:46 UTC 2009
Panu Matilainen wrote:
>
> Are we ready to consider a brand new RPM version for F11, amidst all this
> mass-rebuild-for-strong-hash chaos and just days to go to development
> freeze?
>
> We just put out first rpm 4.7.0 beta:
> http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-announce/2009-February/000016.html.
> This is nothing like the 4.4.2.x -> 4.6.0 leap-of-faith upgrade last
> year but it's still non-trivial amount of changes to get the kind of
> memory use and performance improvements that 4.7.0 has, which is why
> it's not just 4.6.1.
>
> The wording of Fedora Feature policy pretty explicitly singles out
> each RPM upgrade to be a Feature... I would like to hear a preliminary
> opinion on it: if everybody is going to be an outright "NO!" then I'm
> not going to waste my time with writing up a Feature page. If it's
> "maybe" or "it depends" then ok, will submit as a feature in time for
> tomorrows FESCo meeting.
>
> So, should I bother with a RPM 4.7 feature page or not?
>
> - Panu -
>
F12 maybe?
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