Ready for new RPM version?
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Thu Feb 26 18:40:17 UTC 2009
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 19:35 +0200, 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?
Roll it in for F11 beta and let's see how much breaks.
Thanks,
-sv
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