On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Jon Ciesla <limb(a)jcomserv.net> wrote:
Panu Matilainen wrote:
>
> Are we ready to consider a brand new RPM version for F11, amidst all this
> mass-rebuild-for-strong-hash chaos and just days to go to development
> freeze?
>
> We just put out first rpm 4.7.0 beta:
>
http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-announce/2009-February/000016.html.
> This is nothing like the 4.4.2.x -> 4.6.0 leap-of-faith upgrade last year
> but it's still non-trivial amount of changes to get the kind of memory use
> and performance improvements that 4.7.0 has, which is why it's not just
> 4.6.1.
>
> The wording of Fedora Feature policy pretty explicitly singles out each
> RPM upgrade to be a Feature... I would like to hear a preliminary opinion on
> it: if everybody is going to be an outright "NO!" then I'm not going
to
> waste my time with writing up a Feature page. If it's "maybe" or
"it
> depends" then ok, will submit as a feature in time for tomorrows FESCo
> meeting.
>
> So, should I bother with a RPM 4.7 feature page or not?
>
> - Panu -
>
> F12 maybe?
It sure does offer some noticeable improvements, can't let F12 have
everything!
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