On 09/26/23 at 08:20pm, Allan McRae wrote: > Hi all, > > I have finally had enough time to finish the privsep work. We now download > all files using a dedicated user. This is ready to be committed (following > any final review) [1]. Note that this currently only separates downloads - > more work is needed for (e.g.) package verification to also occur in a > separate process. > > I consider this marking the milestone for the next package release. I have > started a tracker for what is needed to be addressed before the release [2]. > There are more things that need added to the list... It just represents my > bare minimum before release. > > Realistically, given my upcoming commitments, I think the release will > happen close to the end of the year.
I have created and marked merge requests for everything I'd like to get into 7.0.0. If there's anything else that needs to be looked at, I have a little available bandwidth at the moment for pacman-related things. apg > Cheers, > Allan > > > [1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/merge_requests/23 > [2] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/milestones/1
