[Apt-Rpm] rpm 4.4.9 woes for apt-rpm

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 23:13 -0700, Gary L. Greene Jr. wrote:
> On Monday 27 August 2007 10:34:49 pm Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 12:33 +1200, Tobias Gerschner wrote:

> 
> Ralph,
Kary?

> it's not a fork, this is the upstream version of RPM from www.rpm5.org which 
> is maintained by JBJ. 
It doesn't matter if you consider rpm5.org a fork or not, nor the fact
that rpm5 is not backward compatible.

It's simply the fact that this patch is not compatible to other versions
of rpm, of whatever origin.

> Post-4.4.7, segments of the non-public API of librpm 
> changed. Unfortunately, since APT knows _way_ too much about the private API 
> than is really good for itself, these kind of changes are necessary to make 
> it build with the new version of RPM. A good solution for this likely would 
> be to have the differences between API abstracted or be surrounded by header 
> guards.
Right, this would an appropriate approach. This patch isn't.

Ralf