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Hello,

I'm not sure if I'm the only one still using this package to deal with *.pacnew-files, but with the release of pacman 6.1, libalpm v14 has been introduced. However, the alpm.rs version 2.1.1 used by this package requires libalpm v13.x.x. Is there a possibility that this issue could be addressed to ensure compatibility with the latest version of libalpm?

Doesn't build right now (building in a clean chroot with makechrootpkg):

[...]
   Compiling term_size v0.3.2
error: failed to run custom build command for `alpm v2.0.3`

Caused by:
  process didn't exit successfully: `/build/pacdiffviewer/src/pacdiffviewer-0.3.0/target/release/build/alpm-15004566e303180a/build-script-build` (exit status: 101)
  --- stderr
  thread 'main' panicked at 'this version of alpm.rs does not support libalpm v13.0.1 only v13.x.0 is supported', /build/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/alpm-2.0.3/build.rs:18:9
  note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
error: build failed
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
==> ERROR: Build failed, check /home/sekret/.chroot/sekret/build

From the Wiki here:

In some cases this is not necessary and may or may not be listed, for example glibc cannot be uninstalled as every system needs some C library

That wording is a big vague, but I asked about it on IRC a while back and was instructed by several TUs that I shouldn't be including it. I guess I don't' know what the answer is of if it's up to personal preference. In the spirit of not including makedepends=() for anything in the base-devel group I've been trying to avoid specifying anything in base as a depends=() unless there is some special circumstance.

Maybe I'm the one doing it wrong?

Going through package review right now and got told to add the dep so just following that :P

Pardon if this is my ignorance, but I was under the impression explicitly depending on glibc in AUR packages was considered uncouth, no?

@caleb You're right, i'm using manjaro. thanks for your reply and the way to solve this issue.

@cherkaba Your system is out of date, you don't have a new enough version of pacman to build this. Either you haven't updated your base system recently or you are using Manjaro or some other derivative distribution that is behind. Either way the problem isn't with this package, you should sort out your issues in the appropriate forum for your distribution.

failling to build:

error: failed to run custom build command for alpm v2.0.3

Caused by:

process didn't exit successfully: /var/tmp/pamac-build-sagitarius/pacdiffviewer/src/pacdiffviewer-0.3.0/target/release/build/alpm-3ce6aedcd6af220e/build-script-build (exit code: 101) --- stderr

thread 'main' panicked at 'this version of alpm.rs does not support libalpm v12.0.2 only v13.x.0 is supported', /home/sagitarius/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/alpm-2.0.3/build.rs:18:9

note: run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display a backtrace warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...

error: build failed

==> ERREUR : Une erreur s’est produite dans build(). Abandon… ''

Currently failing to build:

   Compiling pacdiffviewer v0.2.0 (/home/canton7/.cache/yay/pacdiffviewer/src/pacdiffviewer-0.2.1)
error[E0277]: the trait bound `std::string::String: std::convert::From<&std::string::String>` is not satisfied
  --> src/pacdiff.rs:36:16
   |
36 |     let alpm = Alpm::new(&pacconf.root_dir, &pacconf.db_path)
   |                ^^^^^^^^^ the trait `std::convert::From<&std::string::String>` is not implemented for `std::string::String`
   |
   = help: the following implementations were found:
             <std::string::String as std::convert::From<&'a str>>
             <std::string::String as std::convert::From<std::borrow::Cow<'a, str>>>
             <std::string::String as std::convert::From<std::boxed::Box<str>>>
   = note: required because of the requirements on the impl of `std::convert::Into<std::string::String>` for `&std::string::String`
   = note: required by `alpm::alpm::Alpm::new`

error[E0658]: use of unstable library feature 'range_contains': recently added as per RFC (see issue #32311)
   --> src/pacdiff.rs:382:22
    |
382 |             if range.contains(&(n + 1)) != invert {
    |                      ^^^^^^^^

error: aborting due to 2 previous errors

Some errors occurred: E0277, E0658.
For more information about an error, try `rustc --explain E0277`.
error: Could not compile `pacdiffviewer`.

To learn more, run the command again with --verbose.
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
error making: pacdiffviewer