[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RPM v6 package format, first public draft for commenting (Discussion #2374)

[Panu Matilainen]

>  What about padding between one tag and the next?

See above, "you'll have an explicit requirement for *all* padding to be zeros in v6" (emphasis added)

> That said, the current solution is simpler and much more obvious from the perspective of package reading.

In some ways yeah, but the padding is an annoying wrinkle that requires separate functions/special cases to read what is supposed to be just two headers in a row. So a self-padding signature header (whatever the exact means) would be a nice simplification for the reader. 

Whether dribbles or not etc, I totally agree there needs to be exactly one accepted way.

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