Odd undefined function after Fedora/Emacs upgrade

[david.goldberg6@verizon.net (Dave Goldberg)]

This is probably more of an Emacs question than a Gnus question but
it's related enough that I hope someone here can help.

Since upgrading to Fedora 19 I now have a new version of Emacs:

GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.8.0)
 of 2013-04-10 on buildvm-11.phx2.fedoraproject.org

and a weird problem.  When I start gnus I get an error that

gnus-get-text-property-excluding-characters-with-faces 

is an undefined function.  I use the latest gnus from git which I keep
in ~/gnus-src and the lisp subdirectory of which is put in my load
path very early on.  I do see that function defined in gnus-util.el
there, and sure enough, if I explicitly load gnus-util before running
gnus everything is fine.  So my workaround has been to explicitly put
(load-library "gnus-util") at the top of my .gnus file.  What I think
has happened here is that Fedora has burned me by building emacs such
that the gnus-util in /usr/share/emacs is loaded on startup (or
perhaps even compiled in).  Sure enough if I run emacs -q and C-h v
features I see gnus-util listed there.  I can live with that - the
explict load-library gives me the behavior I want, but I wonder if
there is a better option, or if this is something that should be
reported as a bug to the Fedora packager?

Thanks,

-- 
Dave Goldberg
david.goldberg6@verizon.net