[fab] Fw: [Bug 174307] RPM 4.4.6 is available
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Mon Jul 10 00:38:28 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 19:12 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
>
> Really there are two issues.
Three.
>
> 1) Are we going to use the latest upstream rpm version?
>
> 2) Are we going to continue using upstream rpm at all?
<snip perfectly valid answer for #1>
> #2 is a far more complicated question, one that SHOULD involve the board and
> the community, and is noted to be on the boards plate.
Good to know.
> How we got to this point was the goals we had in mind for this release and
> last. They were incompatible with a major change to RPM. Plain and simple.
And that brings up 3.
3) Communication on such things with the community.
The above is a perfectly valid statement as to why RPM has not been
upgraded in Core. Why couldn't someone simply add a comment to the bug
saying so? Instead, it was left completely unanswered until it turned
into the flamefest it is now.
josh
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