Ready for new RPM version?

[Jon Ciesla]

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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