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Update NEWS for pacman-5.0 

Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
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VERSION DESCRIPTION
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5.0.0 - pacman can check the validity of the local and sync databases
5.0.0 - pacman can run hooks pre- and post-transaction. See the
alpm-hooks(5) man page for details and an example hook (FS#2985)
- pacman can now sync and read .files databases (-Fy) and do basic
searching for files in sync repos (-Fs, -Fo) (FS#23787)
- pacman can check the validity of the local and sync databases
(-Dk and -Dkk respectively). This replaces the 'testdb'
software
software (FS#42444)
- the package description output (-Si ,-Qi) is now correctly
aligned regardless of locale (FS#43983, FS#45997)
- ensure internal package version matches database version after
downloading (FS#45687)
- improved signal handling and lock file removal (FS#45995,
FS#46375, FS#47011)
- print more information when encountering dependency errors
- improved configuration parsing with a new ini parser
- handle a symlink to a directory being replaced by a directory
- The 'pkgbase' variable is now recorded in the local package db
- Remove support for ".pacorig" files. Instead, packages files
are extracted as a ".pacnew" and the original stays in place
- prevent install scriptlets using stdin for user interaction
- provides are considered when displaying optdepends install
status (FS#36412)
- always update corrupt database whether or not a newer version
is found on the remote server
- fix build issues when libarchive was in a non-standard location
- Many issues found using Coverity were address (primarily freeing
memory on error conditions)
- The pactest suite was upgraded to allow parallel testing using
the tap.sh library
- makepkg:
- makepkg is in the process of being split into a library. This
allows various areas to be extended by adding a file into
libmakepkg (e.g. package/PKGBUILD checking, adjusting
files before creating the final package).
- PKGBUILD variables checked to be arrays or not as appropriate
- pkgver() and prepare() are now run with --noextract (FS#43498,
FS#46800)
- the ability to build a single package in a PKGBUILD has been
removed
- the output when checking checksums for architecture specific
sources is improved (FS#43444)
- improved handling of bazaar sources (FS#43448)
- fix source package signing with SRCPKGDIR set
- add option to compress png images with optipng
- add --packagelist option, which lists all packages build from
a PKGBUILD
- add --printsrcinfo flag to print SRCINFO file for a PKGBUILD
- record build information in a .BUILDINFO file
- add whirlpool to list of hashing options (FS#45859)
- makepkg-template:
- support multiple --template-dir
- added a testsuite
- repo-add:
- Always generate the .files database
- Only update database if the entire operation succeeds
- unarmored package signatures are rejected
- contrib:
- checkupdates: give error when fakeroot is missing
- checkupdates: provide packages versions in output
- checkupdates: fix failure in some locales (FS#40405)
- paccache: Add -q/--quiet
- pacdiff: do not require DIFFPROG for -o/--output (FS#46184)
- zsh_completion: updated to fix many missing options
4.2.1 - Remove warnings about incorrect directory ownership until
packaging files with dynamic users/groups is improved
- Do not require a specific automake version when building from