[pacman-dev] Bug in pactest suite

[Dan McGee]

On Dec 23, 2007 6:23 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 23, 2007 2:01 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Dec 23, 2007 6:55 AM, Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > I noticed, that with fileconflict*.py the .FILELISTs of generated
> > > packages isn't generated correctly: the symlinks are missing. So we can
> > > ignore the results of these pactests now.
> >
> > .FILELIST was killed off ages ago. I think even before pacman 3.0
> >
> > Considering you tracked this bug down, could you maybe... I dunno,
> > even give us some sort of source line or something if you're not going
> > to provide a patch?
>
> Um...I've thought it should be killed off, but that really wasn't done.
> <http://projects.archlinux.org/git/?p=pacman.git;a=blob;f=scripts/makepkg.sh.in;h=ef7bae5029d459c25a0cadfb7ad3716d099bb464;hb=9addd88a7d12c8c8445ec226e2837afe01e660b7#l788>
>
> It is true that we no longer require it for pacman. Has it been long
> enough then that we can safely remove it from makepkg (meaning there
> are no holdovers from  2.9.8 that we want to worry about)?

Aaron, can you give me some feedback here?

-Dan