A bug in RCS causes filtering locked files by username to not work, this was patched by Redhat in RHEL7 [1] but not filtered upstream to Fedora or GNU [2].  I mirrored the Fedora package [3] in my organization local Gitlab, added this patch to the epel9 branch and bumped the Epoch and Release numbers so my in-house build will override the Fedora EPEL one, and the patch applied cleanly and fixed the problem.  It's a pretty small and straightforward patch, so whether it gets applied upstream or local to Fedora probably depends on the availability of maintainers and willingness to bump the minor version in EPEL if upstream is responsive and cuts a v5.10.2.


# incorrect behavior, showing locked files by both mtinberg and bbadger
[mtinberg@rhel9 rcs-test]$ rcs log -L -R -lmtinberg *,v
test-locked-bbadger-author-bbadger,v
test-locked-bbadger-author-mtinberg,v
test-locked-mtinberg-author-bbadger,v
test-locked-mtinberg-author-mtinberg,v

# upgrade to local build
  Upgrading        : rcs-1:5.10.1-4.el9.x86_64                                                                             1/2 
  Cleanup          : rcs-5.10.1-3.el9.x86_64  

# correct behavior, only showing files locked by mtinberg
 
[mtinberg@rhel9 rcs-test]$ rcs log -L -R -lmtinberg *,v
test-locked-mtinberg-author-bbadger,v
test-locked-mtinberg-author-mtinberg,v

- [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1696716
- [2] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?67093
- [3] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rcs.git