so suggested packages are not required during package installation

if the source tarball was prepared with current

better job of detecting calls from other packages, including not

reporting those where a function has been copied from another

namespace (e.g., as a default method).  It now reports calls where

is a symbol registered in another package.

members (suggested originally and from a patch by Dirk Eddelbuettel).

on a Linux system and record that value rather than the

argument for consistency with Unix versions of

declared packages and namespaces.  It reports

packages declared in more than one of the

imported to avoid conflicts and to allow correct operation when

the namespace is loaded but not attached.

top-level files and directories (which are often mistakes): this

(the version was several years old): it is no longer used in

A much later version is commonly included in LaTeX distributions

sub-directory of package sources, for example to record

The macros used for the texinfo manuals have been changed to

work better with the incompatible changes made in

5.0.3 (was 4.999).  This is in part to avoid 5.0.2, which can

compress in ways other versions cannot decompress.

The included version of PCRE has been updated to 8.33.

More of the installation and checking process will work even

is set to a path containing spaces, but this is

not recommended and external software (such as

Installation is aborted immediately if a

recognized: they are checked at installation.  (Fields with

version requirements were previously silently ignored.)

packages has been changed to the upcoming

has been tweaked so it can be included in

against package code supplying an invalid

are deprecated (and they have not worked with

as a scripting language including interacting with the OS.

the path was terminated with an explicit

3.0.1 (only) when a sub-architecture was used.  (Reported by

chosen, so the MD5 sums did not refer to the installed versions.

(and possibly others similarly).  (Reported by Peter Langfelder.)

and one was written for a different OS, it would set