Re: Backwards-incompatible RPM format change in Fedora 34?

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Once upon a time, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> said:
> Oh, I didn't fully understand your comment at the time. I automatically assumed
> that "enabled in production" only means that the *code* is there, i.e. that
> the version of rpm has been updated in preparation. Actually enabling this
> while the proposal is being discussed is definitely NOT OK. It makes
> mockery of the whole Change process and deliberation on fedora-devel and
> the fesco ticket.

I have to say, I didn't realize that the RPM format was being changed in
a backwards-incompatible way.  I don't see that mentioned ONCE in the
change proposal, and that's a very large thing to miss.

I think that alone is enough to kill any such proposal until the
compatible versions of RPM are in widespread use.  It has wide-ranging
impact - we still have "rpmbuild-md5" for back compat for example
(although that could probably be retired now; think EPEL 5 was that last
thing that needed it?).  That's needed for package developers working on
multiple releases/versions; there'd need to be another back-compat
rpmbuild (at least), for example for running on a desktop of Fedora 33
but working on a package for EPEL 7.

-- 
Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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