[arch-dev-public] [signoff] pacman 4.0.0-2

[Allan McRae]

On 14/10/11 15:10, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Am 13.10.2011 20:22, schrieb Dan McGee:
>> The most anticipated release EVER has landed in [testing]. Do I expect
>> it to make it out before we need a 4.0.1? Not really. :)
>>
>> Upstream NEWS/changes:
>> http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/NEWS?h=maint
>> Disregard the 4.0.1 stuff that isn't in this package yet and hasn't
>> been actually released.
>>
>> Questions? Concerns? Comments? I'm telling you as little as possible
>> about this release and how to make things work to put more people in
>> the "standard user who doesn't follow development like a hawk" shoes.
>>
>> This thread is for the *package in testing only*. We have more work to
>> do from a distro policy standpoint on signing; please do not discuss
>> that here but in another thread.
>>
>> -Dan
>
> I just noticed a somehow unexpected behavior: When I run "pacman -S
> devtools" (still had namcap version 3.1) pacman wanted to install these
> pacakges:
>   namcap-3.1-1  pacman-3.5.4-4  pyalpm-0.4.3-1  subversion-1.6.17-6
> devtools-0.9.27-1

I am majorly confused as why a "pacman -S devtools" would pull 
namcap/pyalpm/pacman in if you already had namcap installed and there 
are no versioned deps for devtools.  I assume you had subversion 
installed too...


> The thing to notice here is that it didn't warn that pylibalpm requires
> pacman 3.5 and that pacman did silently downgrade itself without any
> further notice. So in addition to the unexpected downgrade itselfthe
> SyncFirst option has no effect in this case?
>