Manfred Lotz submitted an update to the
pkgcheck
package.
Version number: 4.0.0 2026-05-23
License type: apache2 mit
Summary description: CTAN package checker
Announcement text:
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## pkgcheck 2026-05-23 (4.0.0)
As mentioned below some work was done in collaboration with Claude Sonnet
(Anthropic)
### Added
- (suggested by Erik) new option --ignore tmpfiles, i.e. no warnings for
detecting temporary files
See also below
- rewritten file type detection
- this was done together with Claude Sonnet (Anthropic)
- now checking certain file types for proper content (new message E0032)
```
E0032 -- Extension expects some file type but got another type
The error shows up when the file has a known extension (e.g., .pdf) and
the detected type doesn't match. The extension is what drove the
expectation.
Example:
extension .pdf expects PDF, got Text (LF)
```
- previously we had the ignore options like this
```
-I, --ignore-dupes Ignore dupes
--ignore-same-named Ignore same-named files
```
now we have
```
-I, --ignore <IGNORE>... Comma-separated list of things to ignore:
dupes, same-named, tmpfiles dupes:
ignore duplicate files
same-named: ignore same-named files
tmpfiles: ignore temporary files
[possible values: dupes, same-named, tmpfiles]
```
- detection of executable files (which implies 775 permissions)
- we no longer check if a file is Lua bytecode, as Lua bytecode cannot
directly be executed
- issue W0008 regarding Unix line endings now issued only for Windows command
files (`.bat` and `.cmd`)
PowerShell files are now ignored, they may have CRLF or LF.
- search for generated files improved (now using nom parser)
- this was done together with Claude Sonnet (Anthropic)
- switch from Makefile to justfile
- crate updates
- correct a bug where an LF line ending was added in case
the last line of a text file didn't have any line ending
- allow 555/444 perm for directories resp. files
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Erik Braun
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