[pacman-dev] additions to NEWS file

[Roman Kyrylych]

2007/2/16, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
> On 2/16/07, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just a quick list of what's missing from NEWS.
> > Feel free to change wording to more appropriate where needed.
> >
> > pacman:
> > - added -arch suffix to package tarballs
> > - the speed of operations with lists is greatly improved
> Already a speed related comment in there (selective loading of database...)
> > - proxy support (right after "- switch to usage of libdownload and
> > libarchive" line)
> Added.
> > - pacman now asks confirmation before cleaning cache
> Eh...true, but small. Nothing groundbreaking, as this probably should
> have been done before, so it was more of a bugfix.
> > - fixes for version checking
> Bugfix? Do we really want to document all of these?
> > - pacman now honours force=y option on -S operation
> Another bugfix, so I don't know if we need to document it. I want to
> keep NEWS concise enough that people will actually want to read it.
> >
> > makepkg:
> > - installed dependencies are removed when build fails too
> Added.
> > - -g and -o don't require -f and don't do deps check now
> Bugfix.
> > - possibility to select paths to strip from info/docs
> Added.
> >
> > - added testing repo to abs
> Added.

OK, I agree that notices about bugfixes are not needed.
But don't forget to add: "a ton of bugfixes" somewhere to the bottom
of 3.0.0 changelog. ;-)

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)