New RPM has landed...

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Jul 11 19:46:53 UTC 2008


Jon Stanley (jonstanley at gmail.com) said: 
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Oh and for now, please refrain from using the new spec features in Fedora to
> > minimize the fuss in case disaster strikes and we need to go back to rpm
> > 4.4.x. The new rpm is on probation for a while ;)
> 
> Would it not be on "probation" until we have no more rpm 4.4.x-based
> releases to maintain (i.e. F8 and F9)?

specs don't *need* to be portable across branches. But we don't want to
have to undo things to make the devel branch build if we go back.

Bill




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