[pacman-dev] Pacman-3.5.0 bug round-up

[Ray Kohler]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Ray Kohler <ataraxia937 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>> Here is a list I made to help keep track of the status of issues in the
>>> 3.5.0 release that I thought may be on use to others....
>>>
>>>
>>> Fixed:
>>>
>>> (No FS#) - reading from stdin and piping "yes"
>>>  - Fix in git
> Fix pushed.
>
>>> FS#23307 - [makepkg] unexpected EOF error when parenthesis are used in
>>> optdepends description
>>>  - Fix attached to bug report (on Allan's working branch)
> Fix pushed.
>
>>> FS#23314 - [pacman] segfault when a database includes deltas
>>>  - Fix attached to bug report (Dan to clean up)
> Fix pushed.
>
>>> FS#23315 - Makepkg gives fatal error if locale isn't set to en_US.utf8
>>>  - Fix identified in bug report.  Requires adjustment to translation
> Fix pushed to Transifex.
>
>>> FS#23325 - libalpm links to many libraries
>>>  - "Fix" to workaround libtool bug on mailing list
> Fix pushed. Ignore my other false alarm emails, if you start with an
> actual clean build things seem fine.
>
>>> FS#23342 - --ignore'ing a package given in the arg list
>>>  - Fix on mailing list (on Allan's working branch)
> Fix pushed.
>
>>> FS#23343 - Pacman does not set world readable permissions on db files (obeys
>>> umask instead)
>>>  - Fix attached to bug report (on Allan's working branch)
> Fix pushed.
>
>>> Bug remaining to be fixed:
>>>
>>> FS#23340 - Group selection mechanism and -Sp
>>>  - is this a case of excess output, or should the selection of packages be
>>> able to be performed with -Sp?  I guess the former given the -Sp is intended
>>> to be used in scripts?
>>>
>>> FS#23322 - zsh autocompletion no longer works with pacman 3.5
>>>  - The zsh autocompletion file has not been updated in a while.
>>>   Do we have a zsh user that wants to tackle this?
>>>
>>> (No FS#) - pacman -{S,U,R} --help does not show -p (only --print)
>>>  - Was this deliberate to keep it beside the --print-format line?
>>
>> How about:
>>
>> - usage message does not show "-T" (this is not a new bug, actually)

This is now FS #23369.

>> - difference in handling "-v" and "--debug", if this is even really to
>> be called a bug at all (
>> http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2011-March/012693.html)

This is now FS #23370.

>> I don't see FS open for either of these. I'll do so if you want.
> Yes please, although these aren't terribly important enough to warrant
> holding up a maint release.