RPM

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 23 October 2006 at 04:08, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 03:36 +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to see rpm-4.4.7 in the next Fedora release, too. I've had many
> > talks with Jeff (the author of RPM) in #rpm at irc.freenode.net and I don't
> > understand all the bad blood between some Fedora Core developers and him.
> > Even if there were some problems in the past, I wish both sides would put
> > them aside and work together.
> 
> Jeff has said that his intentions are to take rpm in a direction that
> would make life as painful for "Red Hat" as possible.

Did he? I don't believe that. I will ask him personally.

> It is difficult to
> overcome a hostile upstream which is consistently negative and unhelpful
> in all channels of communication.

I don't find him negative and unhelpful. Quite the contrary.

Regards,
R.

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