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

[Gary L. Greene Jr.]

On Monday 27 August 2007 11:28:20 pm Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 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?

Sorry, mistyped your name....

> > 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
>
>
>
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