Bill Nottingham wrote:
Panu Matilainen (pmatilai@laiskiainen.org) said:
So, should I bother with a RPM 4.7 feature page or not?
- does it change the output package format in any way that would make packages unreadable by prior versions?
If the output package format is not 100% usable by previous versions of rpm (all the way back to the rpm that was in the original Fedora 9 release) then such a change is forbidden without explicit migration and compatibility features. Not only would that require a feature page, it requires testing for a full release cycle.