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vrms-rpm v2.3
After a long time of inactivity, this new release brings in a couple of
important new features. The biggest one of those is the addition of the
--grammar option, allowing users to pick from several built-in licence
string parsers. A new parser implementing the SPDX License Expression
grammar has been introduced, in two flavours: strict ("spdx-strict")
and lenient ("spdx-lenient"). The old parser used by vrms-rpm v2.2
and older is still available under the name "loose".
The program will now detect when multiple versions of the same package
are installed, and print the full name-epoch:version-release information
to distinguish between the packages. A new option, --evra, has been
added, that allows the user to customize this behaviour.
The program will now also detect gpg-pubkey packages ("fake" packages
used by rpm to store information about GPG keys) and employ special
rules when handling them.
Support for the NO_COLOR environment variable has been added.
As usual, the licence lists have been updated. While previously this was
done manually, this release finally includes a script which automates
the process.
On the developer side, the program is now accompanied by a test suite,
which should help in preventing regressions.