Ready for new RPM version?

[Panu Matilainen]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> 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?
>>
> Just a packager's perspective but:
>
> 1) The memory optimization features look great!
> 2) A few of the API changes aren't clear if they remove old API.  Should
> that be assumed wherever "should be transparent" isn't written?

Removals are stated explicitly AFAICT, but all of them are things that 
have only ever been useful within rpm and now wouldn't do anything at all. 
"No existing API consumer should be affected" goes for all of the API 
changes whether written or not. (but ok will clarify, the current version 
is just the first draft)

> 3) As the rpm maintainer, do you recommend we go with this for F11?

Would I have started this thread if I didn't? :)

 	- Panu -