[pacman-dev] 3.4.1 release plans

[Dan McGee]

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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/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.

And something we should probably call out more closely in NEWS: the
old auto-inclusion of changelogs is no more and you need to have a
changelog=myfile in the PKGBUILD to get it. (commit
2cabe336eb33e443819a1d9d46b0c5bcceaa7e87)

-Dan