Re: Ready for new RPM version?

[seth vidal <skvidal fedoraproject org>]

On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 11:41 -0800, John Reiser wrote:
> Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Panu Matilainen (pmatilai laiskiainen org) said: 
> >> So, should I bother with a RPM 4.7 feature page or not?
> 
> > - does it change the output package format in any way that would
> >   make packages unreadable by prior versions?
> 
> If the output package format is not 100% usable by previous versions of rpm
> (all the way back to the rpm that was in the original Fedora 9 release)
> then such a change is forbidden without explicit migration and
> compatibility features.  Not only would that require a feature page,
> it requires testing for a full release cycle.


"forbidden"? Forbidden by whom?

I'm curious where you're pulling all of this declarative language from.

-sv