pmatilai left a comment (rpm-software-management/rpm#2760)
Hmm so, we can't really go and change the C level tags to point to another
type.
What we could do, in that department, is rename the old tags to SHORTFOO: this
will preserve functionality for existing binaries, but when recompiling, you're
forced to adopt. Which is okay - silent breakage isn't.
The gotcha with this is that Python and queryformat need to resolve from name
to a tag. Perhaps it'd be enough to have rpmTagGetValue() to know about these
SIZE's meaning the LONG version - for Python and cli the type change is not an
issue.
But of course a C client could also be using rpmTagGetValue() to determine the
tag and be unpleasantly surprised when they get a different type...
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