[Rpm-maint] [REQUEST] new release of rpm-4.9.x branch

[Panu Matilainen]

On 03/13/2012 11:30 AM, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> Hi
>
> I see you're back-porting fixes in FC's rpm. eg:
>
> * Wed Mar 07 2012 Panu Matilainen<pmatilai at redhat.com>  - 4.9.1.2-6
> - fix memory corruption on rpmdb size estimation (#766260)
> - fix couple of memleaks in python bindings (#782147)
> - fix regression in verify output formatting (#797964)
> - dont process spec include in false branch of if (#782970)
> - only warn on missing excluded files on build (#745629)
> - dont free up file info sets on test transactions
>
> * Thu Feb 09 2012 Panu Matilainen<pmatilai at redhat.com>  - 4.9.1.2-5
> - adjust font detection rules for libmagic change (#757105)
> - fix classification of ELF binaries with setuid/setgid bit (#758251)
> - switch back to smaller BDB cache default (#752897)
>
> However they don't land in other distros' rpm unless they look at FC's rpm.
>
> I know that not all those patches would be committed upstream, but please
> can you do a new release of rpm-4.9.1.3 with those fixes so that
> everybody can enjoy them?

A new maintenance release of 4.9.x has been in the plans for quite some 
time now, it's just gotten delayed, delayed and delayed again for 
various reasons. But yes, there will be 4.9.2 bugfix release, hopefully 
sooner than later.

     - Panu -