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pkgcore-checks Release Notes
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See ChangeLog for full commit logs; this is summarized and major changes.


* EAPI2 support for checking use/transitive use deps.

* ticket 216; basically portage doesn't always write out _eclasses_ entries
  in the cache- if they're empty, it won't.  pkgcore-checks visibility vcs
  eclass tests assumed otherwise- this is now fixed.

* pcheck now only outputs the number of tests it's running if --debug is
  enabled.


0.4.3:

* ticket 8; false positive unused global USE flags due to not stripping '+-'
  from iuse defaults.

* ticket 7: tune down metadata xml checks verbosity.

* dropped ModularXPortingReport; no longer needed.


0.4.2:

* minor release to be EAPI=1 compatible wrt IUSE defaults


0.4.1:

* fixed ticket 90; NonExistantDeps occasionally wouldn't report later versions
  of an offender.

* --disable-arches option; way to specifically disable an arch (blacklisting)
  instead of having to specify all arches.


0.4:

* update to use snakeoil api.

* Add check to metadata_check.DependencyReport for self-blocking atoms; for
  example, if dev-util/diffball RDEPEND has !dev-util/diffball.

* ticket 82; Fix BadProto result object so it has proper threshold.

* Fix class serialization bug in RestrictsReport.

* profile loadup optimization; pkgcore weakly caches the intermediate nodes,
  pcheck's profile loadup however specifically released the profiles every
  looping; now it temporarily holds onto it, thus allowing the caching to kick
  in.  Among other things, cuts file reads down from 1800 to around around 146.


0.3.5:

* addition of __attrs__ to base.Result classes; use this if __slots__ doesn't
  suffice for listing the attrs to pickle.

* Thanks to Michael Sterret for pointing it out; tweak cleanup scan so that it
  notes 1.12 overshadows 1.11 (stable keywords overshadow earlier unstable
  versions): for example-
  1.11: ~x86 ~amd64
  1.12: x86 ~amd64


0.3.4:

* treat pkg.restrict as a depset.


0.3.3:

* drop digest specific checks; portage now prunes digests on sync regardless
  of whether or not the repo is m2 pure; thus, no way to detect if a missing
  digest is actually a screwup in the repo, or if it's portage being 'special'.
  May re-add the checks down the line, currently however removing them for
  the common case.

* back down check for files directory if manifest2; manifest2 glep didn't
  specify that files directory could be dropped, but portage has deviated there.
  Since been backed down, but getting ahead so we don't need an intermediate
  release when they try it again.

* added check for missing metadata.xml; refactored common error class selection
  logic into base class.


0.3.2:

* correct tracebacks when dealing with a few result objects from repo_metadata


0.3.1:

* makes StaleUnstable abide by --arches; ticket 59 (thanks leio).
* stop complaining about empty keywords, since they're now allowed instead of
  using -*.


0.3:

* heavy refactoring of reporter subsystem, and clean up of check results.
  Better messages, better output for normal usage.  to_xml() methods were
  dropped (XmlReporter handles it on it's own), same for to_str() in favor
  of short_desc and long_desc attributes.
* whitespace checks now output one result for each classification for an
  ebuild, instead of emitting reports for each line.
* all remaining 'info' statements are pushed to stderr now.
* new PickleStream reporter; used to serialize check results, and flush the
  stream out stdout.  If you need to get at the data generated, this is the
  sanest way to do it (alternatives require trying to deserialize what a
  reporter does, thus losing data).
* added new tool replay-pcheck-stream; used to replay a pickle stream through
  alternative reporters.


0.2:

* invocation args have changed- please see readme for details of how to
  use pcheck.
* test suite added; not yet complete coverage, but 90% of the way there.
* --list-checks output format is fair bit more human-readable now.
* better support for overlays (should work fine with appropriate commandline
  options supplied)
* optimizations, and performance regression fixes; fair bit faster then .1.
* new checks can be added via pkgcore 0.2 plugins cache.
* UI improvements; color, and human readable output.
* --xml option was dropped, use --reporter to specify the desired reporter,
  and --list-reporters to see what reporters are available
* added --enable, --disable options to prune add/remove specific checks from
  the run.
* add config based 'suites' that can be ran; basically, sets of tests/targets
  to run via pcheck.  See README for details.
* whitespace checks.


0.1:
* inital release