[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Update NEWS for pacman-5.0

[Doug Newgard]

On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 20:18:30 +1000
Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
> ---
>  NEWS | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 63 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index a4d3dba..e2ae89b 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -1,8 +1,69 @@
>  VERSION         DESCRIPTION
>  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -5.0.0         - pacman can check the validity of the local and sync databases
> +5.0.0         - pacman can run hooks pre- and post-transaction. See the
> +                alpm-hooks(5) man page for details and an example hook (FS#2985)
> +              - pacman can now sync and read .files databases (-Fy) and do basic
> +                searching for files in sync repos (-Fs, -Fo) (FS#23787)
> +              - pacman can check the validity of the local and sync databases
>                  (-Dk and -Dkk respectively).  This replaces the 'testdb'
> -                software
> +                software (FS#42444)
> +              - the package description output (-Si ,-Qi) is now correctly
> +                aligned regardless of locale (FS#43983, FS#45997)
> +              - ensure internal package version matches database version after
> +                downloading (FS#45687)
> +              - improved signal handling and lock file removal (FS#45995,
> +                FS#46375, FS#47011)
> +              - print more information when encountering dependency errors
> +              - fix conflict with CheckSpace and NoExtract (FS#47470)

^ this issue didn't exist in pacman 4.2, so it doesn't need to be listed here.

> +              - improved configuration parsing with a new ini parser
> +              - handle a symlink to a directory being replaced by a directory
> +              - The 'pkgbase' variable is now recorded in the local package db
> +              - Remove support for ".pacorig" files.  Instead, packages files
> +                are extracted as a ".pacnew" and the original stays in place
> +              - prevent install scriptlets using stdin for user interaction
> +              - provides are considered when displaying optdepends install
> +                status (FS#36412)
> +              - always update corrupt database whether or not a newer version
> +                is found on the remote server
> +              - fix build issues when libarchive was in a non-standard location
> +              - Many issues found using Coverity were address (primarily freeing
> +                memory on error conditions)
> +              - The pactest suite was upgraded to allow parallel testing using
> +                the tap.sh library
> +              - makepkg:
> +                - makepkg is in the process of being split into a library. This
> +                  allows various areas to be extended by adding a file into
> +                  libmakepkg (e.g. package/PKGBUILD checking, adjusting
> +                  files before creating the final package).
> +                - PKGBUILD variables checked to be arrays or not as appropriate
> +                - pkgver() and prepare() are now run with --noextract (FS#43498,
> +                  FS#46800)
> +                - the ability to build a single package in a PKGBUILD has been
> +                  removed
> +                - the output when checking checksums for architecture specific
> +                  sources is improved (FS#43444)
> +                - improved handling of bazaar sources (FS#43448)
> +                - fix source package signing with SRCPKGDIR set
> +                - add option to compress png images with optipng
> +                - add --packagelist option, which lists all packages build from
> +                  a PKGBUILD
> +                - add --printsrcinfo flag to print SRCINFO file for a PKGBUILD
> +                - record build information in a .BUILDINFO file
> +                - add whirlpool to list of hashing options (FS#45859)
> +              - makepkg-template:
> +                - support multiple --template-dir
> +                - added a testsuite
> +              - repo-add:
> +                - Always generate the .files database
> +                - Only update database if the entire operation succeeds
> +                - unarmored package signatures are rejected
> +              - contrib:
> +                - checkupdates: give error when fakeroot is missing
> +                - checkupdates: provide packages versions in output
> +                - checkupdates: fix failure in some locales (FS#40405)
> +                - paccache: Add -q/--quiet
> +                - pacdiff: do not require DIFFPROG for -o/--output (FS#46184)
> +                - zsh_completion: updated to fix many missing options
>  4.2.1         - Remove warnings about incorrect directory ownership until
>                  packaging files with dynamic users/groups is improved
>                - Do not require a specific automake version when building from