Heads-up: RPM 4.17 alpha coming to rawhide near you

2021-04-26 Thread Panu Matilainen
It's spring, it's raining sleet where I live, and it's also the season for new rpm in rawhide. As per https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RPM-4.17. The changes to the macro subsystem internals have been quite large, and while it's supposed to be backwards compatible with changes this big

Heads-up: RPM 4.16 alpha coming to rawhide

2020-03-31 Thread Panu Matilainen
It's that time of year again... as our RPM change proposals passed with flying colors in yesterdays meeting, I'll hope to land RPM 4.16 alpha in rawhide later today or tomorrow by latest. There aren't any big incompatibility bumps here, but to pave way for the fancy new expression stuff, some

Heads-up: rpm 4.15 alpha coming to rawhide

2019-06-10 Thread Panu Matilainen
As per https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RPM-4.15, rpm 4.15-alpha will be hitting rawhide soon. A soname bump is involved but Igor kindly promised to handle rebuilding all dependent packages as part of the change, so no further action required from others on that account. There are