v12 roadmap

[atreyasha]

This is a summary of planned developments leading up to v12.0.0.

Major features

Split downgrade into independent/modular scripts (eg. downgrade-search, downgrade-select and downgrade-install; see #181) and thereby address these issues:

• Make fzf (and other TUIs) optional dependencies (with default package selection) and integrate into PKGBUILD
• fzf as optional dependency #180
• Migrate to getopts to handle CLI arguments in lower-level scripts
• Use getopts to handle CLI arguments in lower-level scripts #182
• Use pacman-conf everywhere for pacman.conf parsing
• Parse pacman.conf using pacman-conf #171
• Reintroduce --arch CLI option and possibly arch column in selection
• Does not handle multile architectures in pacman.conf #185
• Downgrade menu format #176
• Develop a prototype version of pacignore and integrate it into downgrade
• Revert on downgrade effects #158

Bugfixes

• Use first architecture from pacman-conf Architecture
• Does not handle multile architectures in pacman.conf #185
• Add additional check for header in case IgnorePkg string is missing in pacman.conf
• IgnorePkg incorrectly added if IgnorePkg string is not already in config file #183
• Catch sed error messages on invalid input
• Packages with a slash in the name cannot be downgraded #184

Miscellaneous

• Contact pacman-dev and/or pacman-contrib mailing lists to ask regarding additional pacignore script
• IgnorePkg incorrectly added if IgnorePkg string is not already in config file #183
• Revert on downgrade effects #158
• Email sent to pacman-contrib mailing list, pending discussion
• Implementing pacignore as part of pacman-contrib does not seem practical based on the response we received, so it makes more sense for us to implement it ourselves first and then contact the mailing list again regarding possible integration
• Update URL for downgrade in PKGBUILD to github.com/archlinux-downgrade/downgrade

Feel free to add or edit these points. Thanks :)