NEWS.md

23.10.0 (2024-12-14)

Check dependency patterns that include alternatives enclosed in braces, such as {ssh,openssh}>=0.

Fix wrong warnings about invalid dependency patterns, include helpful details, turn the warnings into errors.

Fix panic when guessing the type of a tool variable.

23.9.1 (2024-12-07)

Fix leftover bmake placeholder in test.

23.9.0 (2024-12-07)

Warn about DISTINFO_FILE and PATCHDIR that don't correspond.

23.8.1 (2024-12-02)

Fix wrong warning and autofix involving _ULIMIT_CMD, which was detected as an "unknown shell command".

Reduce punctuation in the debug log when tracing function calls.

23.8.0 (2024-10-04)

Prohibit vertical bar in COMMENT, to avoid generating syntactically wrong INDEX files.

Explain in which cases a distinfo file is not needed.

Fix detection of redundant trailing semicolon at the end of a command line. A semicolon that is escaped is not redundant, this pattern is often found in find commands.

Recognize indirect modifiers such as ${VAR:${M_indirect}}.

23.7.0 (2024-09-12)

Allow the '::=' modifier family in the pkgsrc infrastructure.

Mark USE_CMAKE as deprecated.

Fix the -Wall option not to imply -Werror.

Note redundant trailing semicolons in shell commands.

23.6.0 (2024-07-24)

Ignore all Git and GitHub files.

23.5.0 (2024-07-16)

Added the -Werror option, which treats warnings as errors.

23.4.2 (2024-05-07)

Fixed the wrong suggestion that list variables or variables of an unknown type could be compared using ${LIST} == word instead of ${LIST:Mword}.

Fixed the wrong warning when a value is appended using += to a variable of unknown type.