[pacman-dev] String freeze for 3.2 release

[Nagy Gabor]

> only happen on error cases, and they are relatively small.
> The question is how. Dan does not want to make these free functions
> public.

Why? I can't see too much difference between alpm_miss_get_causingpkg
(wow, new API change ;-) and alpm_miss_free.

> ... Maybe we want to store these error lists in libalpm, and
> allow the frontend to get it. And then it would be freed when the
> transaction is freed?

I don't like this. We should somehow differentiate pmdepmissing_t and
pmconflict_t ... lists, and we have more chance to do memleaks here.

> Otherwise, maybe this is where it would help to have a free function 
> attached to the list structure.
> 
> > 4. <flame> Revert vercmp code to 3.1 </flame>
> > 
> 
> It would be nice to figure out what changed and why it doesn't work 
> anymore rather than simply reverting.
> 

nicer, but harder ;-)
See 84283672853350a84d2a71b72dc06e180cad1587, search for 'type
mismatch'.

Bye