Posted May 4, 2011 2:33 UTC (Wed) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
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openSUSE 11.2 already used rpm-4.7, which indeed, was a big forward leap at that time.
Who maintains RPM? (2011 edition)
Posted May 5, 2011 12:16 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646)
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To expand that information: Consequences of an update to 4.9 have been discussed recently on the developer's list. The next openSUSE release will probably use that version.