RPM

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 20:17 +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Monday, 23 October 2006 at 19:50, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 10:59 +1000, Norman Gaywood wrote:
> > > Another article and discussion of interest is "Who maintains RPM?",
> > > posted in August 2006.
> > > 
> > > http://lwn.net/Articles/196523/
> > 
> > After reading that,
> 
> That article is biased and inflammatory. Can we please stop quoting it?
> 
> > and especially this[1], can we *PLEASE* put our foot
> > down, show some balls, take the lead, show some initiative, and fork the
> > "Fedora Package Manager"?
> 
> What about "working with upstream"? I thought that was one of the main Fedora
> goals.
> 
> > Jeff Johnson isn't fit to maintain Evolution.
> 
> Why are doing this? Stop flaming, please.
> 
> > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119185
> 
> Oh, for crying out loud, stop bringing up two year old bugs that have
> long been resolved. This is not helping.

It's resolved in upstream rpm 4.4.5; Fedora is stuck with 4.4.2 and so
it doesn't look resolved to me (and I see no sign of a backported fix
for this in the Fedora rpm changelog). Which is one of the issues that
this thread was raised about.

Paul.