[Dev] dbscripts 20180715 release announcement, and more!

[Brett Gilio]

Luke Shumaker writes:

> I've rolled out version 20180715 of Parabola dbscripts.
>
> TL;DR: `db-move` and `db-remove` now work correctly!  You can 
> use them
>        by ssh'ing to repo at repo.parabola.nu.
>
> This is essentially a bugfix release.
>
> Changes from 20180622 to 20180715:
>
>  - The VCS backend is now configurable using config:VCS.  This
>    replaces using XBS to abstract away the VCS backend.
>    * Currently, it has VCS=svn and VCS=none
>    * By default VCS=none, which is consistent with the existing
>      behavior (because XBS was always kind-of broken).
>    * Eventually there will be a VCS=git or VCS=abslibre or 
>    VCS=srcpkg
>      or something.
>  - Unlike XBS, which was always kind-of broken, the VCS=none 
>  works
>    correctly enough that `db-move` and `db-remove` work 100%
>    correctly!
>  - A dependency on expac was added.
>  - Various test suite improvements.
>
> Known issues:
>
>  - Documentation (`README.md`, `HACKING.org`) needs updated to 
>  reflect
>    the above changes.
>  - `sourceballs` won't work with VCS=none for obvious reasons 
>  (but
>    that's OK, because we don't use `sourceballs` in Parabola)
>  - `db-update` will erroneously agree to release binary packages 
>  that
>    disagree with the PKGBUILD on file, because it doesn't know 
>    which
>    PKGBUILD is on file, because VCS=none.
>
> Other notes:
>
>  - Expect XBS to be removed in the next release of libretools.
>  - On winston.parabola.nu, I have run:
>        sudo pacman -Sy --needed dbscripts

Terrific work, Luke! Thank you for your dedication.

-- 
Brett M. Gilio
Free Software Foundation, Member
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