[pacman-dev] 3.4.1 release plans

[Allan McRae]

On 08/07/10 15:08, Dan McGee wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> We've had a handful of fixes go into maint so it might be time to
> think about a 3.4.1 release. Some other pending issues to think about
> before we release:
>
> * http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19969, pacman download issues from
> googlecode.com domain. Looks like not our problem so will probably
> close this out.

Agreed, not a bug.

> * http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20022, Download progress and
> completion issues during repo sync. I saw this before the release in
> git, and it seems like someone else hit it too. It is always involving
> kernel.org HTTP that we've seen so far.

I do not think anything can be done for this at this stage as it seems 
to be a very rare occurrence and we have no idea why...

> * http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19854, --ignore is ignored. This is
> the highest priority issue and something I definitely want to get in
> 3.4.1; I have started on a fix and it shouldn't be too bad but some
> code and checks need to move around.

I guess this also covers the IgnoreGroup configuration option doing nothing?

> * http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19853, No prompting about groups.
> Might even get fixed with the above, and with 24 votes, apparently
> people do care (but not enough to answer the patches welcome call).

One more:
* makepkg crashes in terminals without colours.  There is a patch on 
this list for that and I asked for further info but I do not think there 
was a response.  There is an easy "hack fix" that could be done for the 
time being.

Allan