Hi all, It's in the mood: GTK, Gnome, Linux are bumping their major version numbers. Should we follow the same path? Several reasons why I think this is a good idea: - we have a major feature coming: signature checks - we have a major API breakage: the pmhandle_t thing, the signature check level thing - throughout the 3.x development cycle, a lot of incompatibilities/changes have happened: * database have no longer the separate "depends" file * sync DBs are now a single tarball * packages have an "epoch" field not understood by previous versions * packages can be xz-compressed * PKGBUILDs have epoch, check() and checkdepends * force is not accepted anymore by makepkg If the next pacman version were to be 3.6, it would have very little similarities with pacman 3.0. They don't seem to be forward-compatible, neither are they backward-compatible. So maybe it's time to go pacman 4.0 ? Cheers, Rémy.