RPM

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 20:37 +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Monday, 23 October 2006 at 20:16, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > 
> > > Frankly, I'm not interested in those past
> > > personal issues, I only care about improving Fedora's packaging tools. So,
> > > let me ask again: what *technical* issues prevent rpm-4.4.7 from being
> > > adopted in fc-devel/fc7?
> > 
> > AFAIK, nothing technical (that can't be dealt with anyway).  
> 
> That was my impression as well.
> 
> > Fact is, many folks have personal/professional problems working with
> > jbj/upstream. So, the biggest issue to tackle seems to be maintainership
> > and (re)defining upstream.
> 
> IOW, we only need someone that has no personal issues with jbj as the
> package maintainer for rpm. And, possibly, a separate bugtracker for RPM
> itself to keep bugreports against RPM package in Fedora and RPM application
> separate. That's one of the problems, AFAIR.

We don't get to decide who maintains RPM in Fedora Core.  That's up to
Red Hat.

A separate upstream RPM bugzilla would be good though.

josh