[pacman-dev] .pacnew created when not needed, was: [signoff] openssh 5.0p1

[Xavier]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Roman Kyrylych
<roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Aha! That explains things.
>  It was definetely the old libarchive version that accompanied 3.1.3
>  pacman on that snapshot.
>

If it was the old version ( <= 2.4.12 ), then nothing is explained and
it remains a mystery.
If it was a newer version ( >= 2.4.14 ), it explains it.
But you didn't say which version, so I don't know :)