pkg-config-0.27 Release?

[Dan Nicholson]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at err.no> wrote:
>> ]] Dan Nicholson
>>
>> Hiya, sorry for the late response here,
>>
>>> I've been squashing some bugs for a while and think I've about
>>> exhausted the things I plan to work on. What do you think about making
>>> another release soon? Anything in particular you see holding things
>>> up?
>>
>> I've seen the changes; thanks a lot for the effort you've put in.
>
> There are a few other patches that I haven't pushed onto master yet
> that might be worth including.
>
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pkg-config/2012-May/000855.html
> Support ~ in rpmvercmp. I don't think anyone needs this feature, but
> it was nearly free to add.
>
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pkg-config/2012-May/000856.html
> Fixes for two old bugs. One makes sure non-l-flags don't get reordered
> and the other adds support for circular requires. I feel good about
> these changes, but they do muck around with the algorithms so a second
> set of eyes would be useful.
>
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pkg-config/2012-May/000837.html
> Luca's new autoconf macros. I think these look good but could use a
> little more polish to be friendlier to use. I'm indifferent if they go
> in now, but they're close to ready IMO.
>
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43149
> Re-enable Requires/Requires.private for --exists. I think this is an
> important fix since the autoconf macros use --exists to determine
> whether to continue or not. If they don't resolve Requires then you
> can end up succeeding with missing dependencies. On the other hand, I
> know --exists resolving Requires.private has been controversial in the
> past, so I think you should take a look at this.

Rather than waiting for review on all the outstanding patches, I think
just the last one is important to decide on before release. I'm going
to push it and release if I haven't heard anything in a few days, but
it would be nice to get an ack/nack on that one.

--
Dan