Loic Hoguin wrote:
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> 
> I submitted a PR some time ago but didn't get a reply/number yet.
> In any case here is the patch I submitted in the PR.
> 
> It fixes the two issues mentionned earlier.
> 
> I tested it against approximately 20 pear packages, including a dozen
> new packages I'm working on.
> 

Hi,

Thanks for the patch.  I've just committed it now so we should be all
good to support any newer pear packages using the v2 format.

adrian.