[Dev] libretools 20160208 release announcement

aurelien aurelien at hackers.camp
Tue Feb 9 06:23:03 GMT 2016


Luke Shumaker <lukeshu at sbcglobal.net> writes:

> I just released libretools 20160208 to [libre], and pushed the source tarball
> to <https://repo.parabola.nu/other/libretools/>.
>
> It's a pretty boring release, change-wise; it's mostly to work with
> the new version of pacman.
>
> Changes from 20150607 to 20160208:
>  * libremakepkg: Work with pacman 5.0
>  * librefetch: Work with pacman 5.0
>  * xbs-abslibre: Bug fixes
>  * Documentation:
>    * The libreblacklist manpage said libremessages in some places
>    * Added librexgettext(1) manpage
>  * $(bindir)/libre* and $(pkglibexecdir)/*.sh are no longer the same
>    file.  The one in bin sources the one in lib.  This shouldn't
>    affect anybody.
>  * The Makefiles have been almost entirely rewritten.
>
> From a technical standpoint, the Makefiles is the most interesting.  I
> wrote an "automake-like" system for GNU make that gives us a lot for
> "free".  Easy non-recursive make, `dist` support, all of the standard
> `clean` targets.  So that means that I'm actually producing
> distribution tarballs now, instead of using snapshots from cgit.


Thanks Luke for the job you done
44 files changed, 1261 insertions(+), 668 deletions(-)

Not easy from what I have tried to understand!

-- 
Aurélien DESBRIÈRES
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