PR/57899 CVS commit: pkgsrc/sysutils/stow

["Benny Siegert" <bsiegert%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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From: "Benny Siegert" <bsiegert%netbsd.org@localhost>
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Subject: PR/57899 CVS commit: pkgsrc/sysutils/stow
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2024 11:54:55 +0000

 Module Name:	pkgsrc
 Committed By:	bsiegert
 Date:		Sat Feb  3 11:54:55 UTC 2024
 
 Modified Files:
 	pkgsrc/sysutils/stow: Makefile PLIST distinfo
 
 Log Message:
 stow: update to 2.3.1.
 
 From Chavdar Ivanov in PR pkg/57899.
 
 * Changes in version 2.3.1
 
 *** Remove dependencies on Hash::Merge and Clone::Choose
 
     stow 2.3.0 added external runtime dependencies on Hash::Merge and
     Clone::Choose. Historically stow hasn't had runtime dependencies
     other than Perl itself, which is a useful property if you're
     managing the installation of Perl using stow; the bootstrapping
     instructions in stow's manual would need updating to describe how
     to install these two modules (and any dependencies they have now
     or in the future) as well.
 
     However, Hash::Merge is much more general than stow actually
     needs, so replace the merge() call with a few lines of equivalent
     code -- this avoids the external dependencies, and is clearer than
     the merge() call.
 
     Many thanks to Adam Sampson for this patch!
 
     https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-stow/2019-06/msg00001.html
 
 *** Fix an issue with the test suite
 
     t/cli.t was not testing with the right Perl executable, as
     reported here:
 
         https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129944
 
     Thanks to Slaven Rezic for spotting this and reporting it!
 
 *** Various maintainer tweaks
 
     Improved the release process and its documentation in various
     minor ways.
 
 * Changes in version 2.3.0
 
 *** New features / changes in behaviour
 
 ***** New --dotfiles option
 
       Enable special handling for "dotfiles" (files or folders whose name
       begins with a period) in the package directory. If this option is
       enabled, Stow will add a preprocessing step for each file or folder
       whose name begins with "dot-", and replace the "dot-" prefix in the
       name by a period (".").  This is useful when Stow is used to manage
       collections of dotfiles, to avoid having a package directory full
       of hidden files.
 
       For example, suppose we have a package containing two files,
       stow/dot-bashrc and stow/dot-emacs.d/init.el.  With this option,
       Stow will create symlinks from .bashrc to stow/dot-bashrc and from
       .emacs.d/init.el to stow/dot-emacs.d/init.el.  Any other files,
       whose name does not begin with "dot-", will be processed as usual.
 
       Thanks to Joris Vankerschaver for this feature!
 
 ***** Shell-like expansion in .stowrc files
 
       For options within .stowrc files which describe file paths, "~" can
       be included to expand to the current value of $HOME, and
       environment variables can be referenced e.g. via "$FOO" or
       "${FOO}".  To prevent expansion, escape with a backslash.
 
       Thanks a lot to Charles LeDoux for his diligent work on this
       feature!
 
 ***** chkstow now honours the $STOW_DIR environment variable
 
       The stow script already honoured the $STOW_DIR environment
       variable.  Now chkstow does too, for consistency.
 
 ***** Stow now has a non-zero exit code if option parsing failed
 
       Thanks to Brice Waegeneire for reporting this.
 
 *** License upgraded from GPL version 2 to version 3
 
     Copyright and license notices were also added to the headers of
     various files in accordance with GNU guidelines.
 
 *** Documentation fixes and enhancements
 
 
 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.35 -r1.36 pkgsrc/sysutils/stow/Makefile
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.8 -r1.9 pkgsrc/sysutils/stow/PLIST
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.11 -r1.12 pkgsrc/sysutils/stow/distinfo
 
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