Heads up: rpm 4.11 alpha coming soon to rawhide near you

[Panu Matilainen]

Now that FESCo accepted http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RPM4.11 
for F19... (in what might well be a record time - less than a minute in 
the meeting from proposal to acceptance :)

Rpm 4.11 alpha (or actually post-alpha snapshot to pull in a few 
accumulated fixes + enhancements) will be hitting rawhide shortly. 
There's no soname bump involved this time, so no rebuilds required.

There's one thing that does affect nearly every package: new warnings 
about bogus spec changelog dates. The most common cause is the day name 
not matching the given date, such as:
warning: bogus date in %changelog: Tue Jun 03 2009 Panu Matilainen 
<pmatilai at redhat.com> - 4.7.0-5

Jun 03 2009 was Wednesday, not Tuesday, hence the warning. As rpm hasn't 
hasn't previously validated changelog dates make sense as a whole, 
nearly every spec has one or more of these mistakes. It's just a warning 
though and doesn't cause build failures.

Other than that, chances are you wont notice much anything at all. 
Assuming all goes well that is. So its the usual drill: keep your eyes 
open on rawhide builds and report any new oddities found ASAP. I'm not 
expecting any major issues with this but you never really know.

For further details see the draft release notes at 
http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.11.0

	- Panu -