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stow-2.4.0-1.fc38

FEDORA-2024-7fa0d94fa8 created by salimma 9 months ago for Fedora 38

Changes in version 2.4.0

--dotfiles now works with directories

A long-standing bug preventing the --dotfiles option from working correctly with directories has been fixed.

It should also works in combination with the --compat option.

Eliminated a spurious warning on unstowing

2.3.1 introduced a benign but annoying warning when unstowing in certain circumstances. It looked like:

  BUG in find_stowed_path? Absolute/relative mismatch between Stow dir X and path Y

This was caused by erroneous logic, and has now been fixed.

Unstowing logic has been improved in other cases

Several other improvements have been made internally to the unstowing logic. These changes should all be either invisible (except for changes to debug output) or improvements, but if you encounter any unexpected behaviour, please report it as directed in the manual.

Improved debug output

Extra output resulting from use of the -v / --verbose flag now appears in a more logical and understandable way.

Janitorial tasks

Users are not substantially affected by these changes.

Added some more information from the web page to the README

Made some improvements to the documentation

Improve readability of source code

Quite a few extra details have been added in comments to clarify how the code works. Many variable names have also been improved. The comments of many Stow class methods have been converted into Perl POD format.

Added a CONTRIBUTING.md file

Add a watch target to Makefile

make watch provides easy continual pre-processing during development, which reduces the risk of debugging the wrong code.

Removed texinfo.tex from the distribution

This eliminates existing and future bit-rot.

Updated aclocal.m4 from 1.15.1 to 1.16.5

This mostly just updates copyright notices to 2021, and URLs to https.

Replace broken gmane links with links to lists.gnu.org

gmane has been dead for quite a while.

Improve support for navigating / editing source via emacs

Various maintainer tweaks

Further improved the release process and its documentation in
various minor ways.

How to install

Updates may require up to 24 hours to propagate to mirrors. If the following command doesn't work, please retry later:

sudo dnf upgrade --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2024-7fa0d94fa8

This update has been submitted for testing by salimma.

9 months ago

This update's test gating status has been changed to 'ignored'.

9 months ago

This update has been pushed to testing.

9 months ago

This update has been submitted for stable by bodhi.

9 months ago

This update has been pushed to stable.

8 months ago

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