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Manfred Lotz submitted an update to the

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Version number: 4.0.0 2026-05-23
License type: apache2 mit

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## pkgcheck 2026-05-23 (4.0.0)

As mentioned below some work was done in collaboration with Claude Sonnet (Anthropic)

### Added

- (suggested by Erik) new option --ignore tmpfiles, i.e. no warnings for detecting temporary files
See also below
- rewritten file type detection
- this was done together with Claude Sonnet (Anthropic)
- now checking certain file types for proper content (new message E0032)

```
E0032 -- Extension expects some file type but got another type

The error shows up when the file has a known extension (e.g., .pdf) and
the detected type doesn't match. The extension is what drove the
expectation.

Example:

extension .pdf expects PDF, got Text (LF)
```




- previously we had the ignore options like this

```
-I, --ignore-dupes Ignore dupes
--ignore-same-named Ignore same-named files
```

now we have

```
-I, --ignore <IGNORE>... Comma-separated list of things to ignore: dupes, same-named, tmpfiles dupes:
ignore duplicate files
same-named: ignore same-named files
tmpfiles: ignore temporary files
[possible values: dupes, same-named, tmpfiles]
```

- detection of executable files (which implies 775 permissions)
- we no longer check if a file is Lua bytecode, as Lua bytecode cannot directly be executed
- issue W0008 regarding Unix line endings now issued only for Windows command files (`.bat` and `.cmd`)
PowerShell files are now ignored, they may have CRLF or LF.
- search for generated files improved (now using nom parser)
- this was done together with Claude Sonnet (Anthropic)
- switch from Makefile to justfile
- crate updates



- correct a bug where an LF line ending was added in case
the last line of a text file didn't have any line ending
- allow 555/444 perm for directories resp. files


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Manfred Lotz submitted an update to the

pkgcheck

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Version number: 4.0.2 2026-05-25
License type: apache2 mit

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## pkgcheck 2026-05-25 (4.0.2)

### Fixed

Fix filecontents false positives

Suppress \begin{filecontents} targets in files that have no \generate or
\generateFile commands. Such files use filecontents for documentation
purposes (embedded code examples, index-style files written during doc
compilation) rather than for package installation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

## pkgcheck 2026-05-24 (4.0.1)

### Fixed

Fix three parser bugs in nom_parsing.rs

- keep may_generate=true when a macro is redefined
with a non-generating body (sticky flag). Fixes ctable/isodoc where
\ifx...\else...\fi guards a generating and a no-op \def of \Extract.
- introduce skip_control_symbol so the fallback branch advances
past \X (backslash + one character) rather than just the backslash.
Fixes \\begin{filecontents} and \\generate{ in Perl string literals
(perltex.dtx, makedtx.dtx) being misread as real TeX commands.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>


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Manfred Lotz submitted an update to the

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Version: 4.0.3 2026-05-28
License: apache2 mit

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## pkgcheck 2026-05-28 (4.0.3)

### Fixed
- documentation was not up to date
- fixing errors in documentation (thanks to Gerd Neugebauer
to pointing me to those errors)

### Changed
- copyright year changed from 2018 to 2018-2026
- improving some things in documentation
(thanks to Gerd Neugebauer for suggestions)

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