There is significant improvement in moving to the rpm 4.7.0 beta in the F11 cycle, but we would like FESCo's approval before making this change.
The big wins:
Full details are here: http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.7.0
We would not be making buildsystem changes as part of this, just updating the rpm release in F11. Any serious showstoppers could be handled by reverting to 4.6.
Please consider this in tomorrows meeting, so that we can get a yes or no. If yes, we will be able to pick this up by beta.
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