1 apt (0.5.25) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Patch from Jason Gunthorpe to remove arbitrary length limit on Binary
4 field in SourcesWriter::DoPackage
5 * Fix typo in apt-cache(8) (Closes: #238578)
6 * Fix obsolete reference to bug(1) in stub apt(8) man page
8 * Fix typo in configure-index (RecruseDepends -> RecurseDepends)
10 * Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt in debian/rules
12 * Increase length of line buffer in ReadConfigFile to 1024 chars;
13 detect if a line is longer than that and error out
15 * Suppress a signed/unsigned warning in apt-cache.cc:DisplayRecord
16 * Build apt-ftparchive with libdb4.2 rather than libdb2
17 - Patch from Clint Adams to do most of the work
18 - Build-Depends: s/libdb2-dev/libdb4.2-dev/
19 - Add AC_PREREQ(2.50) to configure.in
20 - Use db_strerror(err) rather than GlobalError::Errno (which uses strerror)
21 - Add note to NEWS.Debian about upgrading old databases
22 * Attempt to fix problems with chunked encoding by stripping only a single CR
24 * Translation updates:
25 - Updated Swedish translation from Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
27 - New Slovenian translation from Jure ÄŒuhalev <gandalf@owca.info>
29 - New Portuguese translation from Miguel Figueiredo <elmig@debianpt.org>
31 - Updated Spanish translation from Ruben Porras <nahoo82@telefonica.net>
32 - Updated Spanish translation of man pages from Ruben Porras
33 <nahoo82@telefonica.net>
34 - Updated Simplified Chinese translation from "Carlos Z.F. Liu" <carlos_liu@yahoo.com>
36 - Updated Russian translation from Dmitry Astapov <adept@despammed.com>
38 - Updated Polish translation from Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>
40 - Updated Czech translation from Miroslav Kure <kurem@upcase.inf.upol.cz>
42 - Updated Japanese translation from Kenshi Muto <kmuto@debian.org>
44 - Run make -C po update-po to update .po files
45 - Updated French translation from Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>
47 - Updated Danish translation from Claus Hindsgaul <claus_h@image.dk>
50 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 8 May 2004 12:42:23 -0700
52 apt (0.5.24) unstable; urgency=low
54 * Updated Czech translation from Miroslav Kure <kurem@upcase.inf.upol.cz>
56 * Updated French translation from Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>
58 * Updates to XML man pages from richard.bos@xs4all.nl
59 * Updated Danish translation from Claus Hindsgaul <claus_h@image.dk>
61 * Updated Greek translation from Konstantinos Margaritis
64 * Updated Spanish translation from Ruben Porras <nahoo82@telefonica.net>
66 * Updated pt_BR translation from Andre Luis Lopes <andrelop@debian.org>
68 * Regenerate .pot file (Closes: #237892)
69 * Updated Polish translation from Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>
71 * In pkgAcquire::Shutdown(), set the status of fetching items to
72 StatError to avoid a sometimes large batch of error messages
74 * Implement an ugly workaround for the 10000-character limit on the
75 Binaries field in debSrcRecordParser, until such time as some things
76 can be converted over to use STL data types (ABI change) (Closes: #236688)
77 * Increase default tagfile buffer from 32k to 128k; this arbitrary limit
78 should also be removed someday (Closes: #174945)
79 * Checked against Standards-Version 3.6.1 (no changes)
81 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:47:55 -0800
83 apt (0.5.23) unstable; urgency=low
85 * Cosmetic updates to XML man pages from Richard Bos <radoeka@xs4all.nl>
86 * Use the 'binary' target rather than 'all' so that the ssh and bzip2
87 symlinks are created correctly (thanks to Adam Heath)
89 * Updated Simplified Chinese translation of message catalog from Tchaikov
90 <chaisave@263.net> (Closes: #234186)
91 * Change default for Acquire::http::max-age to 0 to prevent index files
92 being out of sync with each other (important with Release.gpg)
93 * Add an assert() to make sure that we don't overflow a fixed-size
94 buffer in the very unlikely event that someone adds 10 packaging
95 systems to apt (Closes: #233678)
96 * Fix whitespace in French translation of "Yes, do as I say!", which
97 made it tricky to type, again. Thanks to Sylvain Pasche
98 <sylvain.pasche@switzerland.org> (Closes: #234494)
99 * Print a slightly clearer error message if no packaging systems are
100 available (Closes: #233681)
101 * Point to Build-Depends in COMPILING (Closes: #233669)
102 * Make debian/rules a bit more consistent in a few places.
103 Specifically, always use -p$@ rather than an explicit package name,
104 and always specify it first, and use dh_shlibdeps -l uniformly rather
105 than sometimes changing LD_LIBRARY_PATH directly
106 * Document unit for Cache-Limit (bytes) (Closes: #234737)
107 * Don't translate "Yes, do as I say!" in Chinese locales, because it can
108 be difficult to input (Closes: #234886)
110 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:08:14 -0800
112 apt (0.5.22) unstable; urgency=low
114 * Updated French translation of man pages from Philippe Batailler
115 <philippe.batailler@free.fr> (Closes: #203119)
116 * Initialize StatusFile in debSystem (Closes: #229791)
117 * Fix apt-get's suggests/recommends printing, which was skipping every
118 other dependency due to both using GlobOr and incrementing the DepIterator
120 * Restore SIGINT/SIGQUIT handlers to their old values (rather than
121 SIG_DFL) after invoking dpkg (Closes: #229854)
122 * Updated Dutch translation of message catalog from cobaco
123 <cobaco@linux.be> (Closes: #229601)
124 * Catalan translation from Antoni Bella, Matt Bonner and Jordi Mallach
126 * Simplified Chinese translation of message catalog from "Carlos
127 Z.F. Liu" <carlos_liu@yahoo.com> (Closes: #230960)
128 * Replace SGML manpages with XML man pages from richard.bos@xs4all.nl
130 * Updated Spanish translation of man pages from Ruben Porras
131 <nahoo82@telefonica.net> (Closes: #231539)
132 * New Czech translation of message catalog from Miroslav Kure
133 <kurem@upcase.inf.upol.cz> (Closes: #231921)
135 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:44:54 -0800
137 apt (0.5.21) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Patch from Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> to include apt18n.h after
140 other headers to avoid breaking locale.h when setlocale() is defined
141 as an empty macro. This was not a problem on Debian, but broke
142 compilation on Solaris. (Closes: #226509)
143 * Updated French translation from Pierre Machard <pmachard@debian.org>
145 * Add colons to apt-get's "kept back"/"upgraded"/"downgraded" messages
147 * Fix typo in apt-cache(8) (Closes: #226351)
148 * Clearer error message in place of "...has no available version, but
149 exists in the database" (Closes: #212203)
150 * Patch from Oliver Kurth <oku@masqmail.cx> to use AC_CACHE_VAL for
151 GLIBC_VER to make cross-compilation easier (Closes: #221528)
152 * Add example preferences file (Closes: #220799)
153 * Updated Greek translation from Konstantinos Margaritis <markos@debian.org>
155 * Updated Spanish translation of man pages from Ruben Porras
156 <nahoo82@telefonica.net> (Closes: #227729)
158 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:54:39 -0800
160 apt (0.5.20) unstable; urgency=low
162 * Fixed German translations of "Suggested" from Christian Garbs
163 <debian@cgarbs.de> (Closes: #197960)
164 * Add an "apt-cache madison" command with an output format similar to
165 the katie tool of the same name (but less functionality)
166 * Fix debSourcesIndex::Describe() to correctly say "Sources" rather than
169 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 2004 23:42:50 -0800
171 apt (0.5.19) unstable; urgency=low
173 * Fix Packages::Extensions support in apt-ftparchive generate
176 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 2004 16:20:31 -0800
178 apt (0.5.18) unstable; urgency=low
180 * New no_NO.po file from Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org> to fix
181 encoding problems (Closes: #225602)
182 * Have "apt-ftparchive release" strip the leading path component from
185 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jan 2004 11:24:35 -0800
187 apt (0.5.17) unstable; urgency=low
189 * Enable apt-ftparchive to generate Release files. Hopefully this will
190 make it easier for folks to secure their apt-able packages
192 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 26 Dec 2003 12:53:21 -0800
194 apt (0.5.16) unstable; urgency=low
196 * po/de.po update from Michael Karcher <karcher@physik.fu-berlin.de>
198 * Update config.guess and config.sub from autotools-dev 20031007.1
199 * Add knetbsd to buildlib/ostable (Closes: #212344)
200 * Don't suggest apt-get -f install to correct broken build-deps; broken
201 installed packages are rarely the cause (Closes: #220858)
202 * Avoid clobbering configure.in if sed fails
204 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Wed, 24 Dec 2003 14:54:40 -0800
206 apt (0.5.15) unstable; urgency=low
208 * Spanish man pages, patch from Ruben Porras <nahoo82@telefonica.net>
210 - apt.es.8 wasn't included in the patch, but was referenced. Fetched
211 version 1.3 from debian-doc cvs
212 - Create doc/es/.cvsignore
213 * Patch from Koblinger Egmont <egmont@uhulinux.hu> to fix
214 pkgCache::PkgFileIterator::Label() to correctly refer to File->Label
215 rather than File->Origin (Closes: #213311)
216 * Add missing comma and space to German translation of "downgraded"
218 * Add missing comma in apt_preferences(5) (Closes: #215362)
219 * Fix whitespace in French translation of "Yes, do as I say!", which
220 made it tricky to type. Thanks to Sylvain Pasche
221 <sylvain.pasche@switzerland.org> (Closes: #217152)
222 * Let apt-get build-dep try alternatives if the installed package
223 doesn't meet version requirements (Closes: #214736)
224 * Fix version display for recommends (Closes: #219900)
225 * Use isatty rather than ttyname for checking if stdin is a terminal.
226 isatty has the advantage of not requiring /proc under Linux, and thus
228 * Correctly implement -n as a synonym for --names-only (Closes: #224515)
229 * Update apt-cache(8)
230 - Document --installed
231 - --recursive applies to both depends and rdepends
232 * Japanese translation of documentation from Kurasawa Nozomu <nabetaro@slug.jp>
234 * Clarify documentation of --no-upgrade in apt-get(8) (Closes: #219743)
235 * Clean up and simplify some of the suggests/recommends display in apt-get
236 * Use cvs update -d in debian/rules cvs-build rather than just update
237 * Pass --preserve-envvar PATH --preserve-envvar CCACHE_DIR to debuild. apt
238 takes a long time to build, and ccache helps
240 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 20 Dec 2003 16:34:30 -0800
242 apt (0.5.14) unstable; urgency=low
244 * apt-get build-dep, when trying to skip over the remaining elements of
245 an or-expression, would accidentally inherit the version requirements of a
246 later item in the or-expression. Fixed it.
247 * Let apt-get build-dep try alternatives if the first dependency in an
248 or-expression is not available
249 * Add a Debug::BuildDeps to generate some trace output
250 * Help apt-get build-dep produce more useful error messages
251 * Process build-dependencies in forward rather than reverse order
252 * Error out if an installed package is too new for a << or <=
254 * apt-get build-dep should now be able to handle almost any package with
255 correct build-depends. The primary exception is build-dependencies on
256 virtual packages with more than one provider, and these are
257 discouraged for automated processing (but still common,
260 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:57:31 -0400
262 apt (0.5.13) unstable; urgency=medium
264 * Document configuration file comment syntax in apt.conf(5)
266 * s/removed/installed/ in a comment in apt-get.cc
267 * Move comment for ListParser::ParseDepends into the right place
268 * Don't preserve ownership when copying config.guess and config.sub.
269 This broke builds where the clean target was run with different
270 privileges than the rest of the build (i.e., root) (Closes: #212183)
271 * On second thought, don't copy config.guess and config.sub at all. I'd
272 rather they always match what is in CVS.
274 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 2003 10:28:17 -0400
276 apt (0.5.12) unstable; urgency=low
278 * Exclude subdirectories named 'debian-installer' from the apt-cdrom
279 search (Closes: #210485 -- release-critical)
281 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:48:14 -0400
283 apt (0.5.11) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Updated pt_BR translations from Andre Luis Lopes <andrelop@debian.org>
287 * In apt.conf(5), give the fully qualified name of Dir::Bin::Methods,
288 rather than just "methods"
289 * Add new nb and nn translations from Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
290 * Clean up reportbug script a bit, and extend it to distinguish between a
291 configuration file not existing and the user declining to submit it with
293 * Add #include <langinfo.h> to cmdline/apt-get.cc. This apparently gets
294 pulled in by something else with recent g++ and/or glibc, but is
295 required when building on, e.g., stable
296 * Patch from Koblinger Egmont <egmont@uhulinux.hu> to fix version
297 comparisons with '~' (Closes: #205960)
298 * Disable Russian translation until someone can review it
301 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:41:28 -0400
303 apt (0.5.10) unstable; urgency=low
305 * Correct the section in apt_preferences(5) on interpreting priorities
306 to show that zero is not a valid priority, and print a warning if such
307 a pin is encountered in the preferences file (Closes: #204971)
308 * Regenerate French man pages from sgml source (Closes: #205886)
309 * Get self-tests compiling again, updated for latest library API
311 * Add version comparison tests for #194327 and #205960
312 * Fix error message in version test to output versions in the order in
313 which they were compared when the reverse comparison fails
314 * Reference the source package bug page rather than the one for the
315 binary package 'apt' in the man pages (Closes: #205290)
316 * Updated Polish po file from Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>
318 * Mention some of the available frontends in apt-get(8) (Closes: #205829)
319 * Add apt-config to SEE ALSO section of apt-get (Closes: #205036)
320 * Add missing "lang" attributes to refentry tags in French man pages
321 (apt-cdrom, apt-extracttemplates, apt-sortpkgs)
322 * Change upgraded/newly installed/not fully installed or removed
323 messages to be consistent and somewhat shorter (some translations
324 exceeded 80 characters even in the simplest case)
325 * Make APT::Get::Show-Upgraded (aka apt-get -u) default to true.
326 * Updates to Dutch translation from Bart Cornelis <cobaco@linux.be>
329 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 31 Aug 2003 21:12:39 -0400
331 apt (0.5.9) unstable; urgency=low
333 * Oh well, apt isn't going to make it into testing anytime soon due to
334 new glibc and gcc deps, so we might as well fix more bugs
335 * Fix typo in example ftp-archive.conf (Closes: #203295)
336 * Mention default setting for --all-versions (Closes: #203298)
337 * Patch from Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> to have --version
338 only print the version (and not usage as well) (Closes: #203418)
339 * Patch from Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> to switch from
340 dh_installmanpages to dh_installman. Fixes the problem where the
341 pt_BR man page was installed in the wrong location (Closes: #194558)
342 * Move the French apt-ftparchive man page into apt-utils where it
343 belongs. apt-utils Replaces: apt (<< 0.5.9)
344 * Write records from "apt-cache show" using fwrite(3) rather than
345 write(2), in case for some reason the entire record doesn't get
346 written by a single write(2)
347 * Add new French man pages to doc/fr/.cvsignore
348 * Add freebsd to buildlib/ostable (Closes: #193430)
349 * Avoid segfault if a package name is specified which consists
350 entirely of characters which look like end tags ('+', '-')
352 * Patch from Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> to avoid listing
353 suggests/recommends for packages which are selected for installation
354 at the same time as the package which suggests/recommends them
356 * Patch from Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> to avoid listing
357 suggests/recommends which are Provided by a package which is already
358 installed (Closes: #200395)
359 * Patch to update pt_BR man page for apt_preferences(5) from Andre Luis
360 Lopes <andrelop@debian.org> (Closes: #202245)
361 * Use nl_langinfo(YESEXPR) rather than comparing to the translated
362 string "Y". Closes: #200953 and should make the prompting generally
363 more robust in the face of i18n. In the particular case of #200953,
364 it was being fooled because of signedness issues with toupper(3)
366 * apt Suggests: aptitude | synaptic | gnome-apt | wajig
368 * Clean up whitespace in translated strings in ru.po, which messed up
369 indentation (some other translations probably have similar problems)
371 * Run ispell -h over the man page sources and fix a bunch of typos
372 * Use debian/compat rather than DH_COMPAT
373 * Update to debhelper compatibility level 3
374 - remove ldconfig calls from debian/{postinst,postrm} as dh_makeshlibs
376 - echo 3 > debian/compat
377 - Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 3)
378 * Exclude '.#*' from cvs-build
379 * Let the ftp method work with ftp servers which do not require a
380 password (Closes: #199425)
381 * Build-depend on debhelper >= 4.1.62, because we need the fix for
382 #204731 in order for dh_installman to work correctly
383 with our SGML man pages
384 * Move dh_makeshlibs ahead of dh_installdeb so that its postinst
385 fragments are properly substituted
387 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 10 Aug 2003 19:54:39 -0400
389 apt (0.5.8) unstable; urgency=medium
391 * urgency=medium because the changes since 0.5.5.1 are pretty safe as
392 far as core functionality, 0.5.5.1 survived unstable for 10 days, and
393 I don't want to delay apt's progress into testing any further. It's
394 decidedly better than 0.5.4.
395 * Clarify the meaning of the only-source option in apt-get(8)
397 * Updated French man pages from Philippe Batailler
398 <philippe.batailler@free.fr> (Closes: #182194)
399 * Give a warning if an illegal type abbreviation is used when looking up a
400 configuration item (Closes: #168453)
401 * Improve build-depends handling of virtual packages even further, so that
402 it will now also try to satisfy build-depends on virtual packages if they
403 are not installed. Note that this only works if there is only one
404 package providing the virtual package, as in other cases (Closes: #165404)
405 * Update config.guess and config.sub from autotools-dev 20030717.1
406 * Tweak SGML in apt-extracttemplates.1.sgml so that literal '>' doesn't end
408 * Document SrcDirectory in apt-ftparchive.1.sgml (Closes: #156370)
409 * Support TMPDIR in apt-extracttemplates (Closes: #191656)
410 * Fix ru.po to use a capital letter for the translation of 'Y' so that
411 YnPrompt works correctly (Closes: #200953). No other translations seem
413 * Regenerate POT file and sync .po files
414 * Only try to clear stdin if it is a tty, to avoid looping if there is
415 lots of stuff (perhaps an infinite amount) to read (Closes: #192228)
417 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:21:53 -0400
419 apt (0.5.7) unstable; urgency=low
421 * Update control file to match overrides (apt priority important,
422 libapt-pkg-dev section libdevel)
423 * Silence the essential packages check if we are only downloading
424 archives and not changing the system (Closes: #190862)
425 * Skip version check if a build-dependency is provided by an installed package
427 * Have apt-cache show exit with an error if it cannot find any of the
428 specified packages (Closes: #101490)
430 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Mon, 21 Jul 2003 23:43:24 -0400
432 apt (0.5.6) unstable; urgency=low
434 * Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
435 - Fix segfault when handling /etc/apt/preferences. Closes: #192409.
436 * Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
437 - Clean up some string handling, patch from Peter Lundkvist
438 <p.lundkvist@telia.com> (Closes: #192225)
439 - Don't fall off the end of the buffer when comparing versions.
440 Patch from Koblinger Egmont <egmont@uhulinux.hu> (Closes: #194327)
441 - Minor fixes to apt-ftparchive(1) (Closes: #118156)
442 - Fix typo in apt-ftparchive help text (Closes: #119072)
443 - More typos in apt-ftparchive help text (Closes: #190936)
444 - Update config.guess, config.sub to latest versions
445 - Modify the description for apt-utils to reflect the fact that it is not
446 (any longer) infrequently used (Closes: #138045)
447 - Make setup script for dselect method more explicit about
448 overwriting sources.list (Closes: #151727)
449 - Fix typo in apt-cache(8) (Closes: #161243)
450 - Remove duplicate 'showpkg' from synopsis on apt-cache(8)
452 - Document in apt-get(8) the meaning of the '*' in ShowList, which is that
453 the package is being purged (Closes: #182369)
454 - Fix extra "/" character in apt.conf(5) (Closes: #185545)
455 - Fix typo in tar error message (Closes: #191424)
456 - Clarify description of 'search' on apt-cache(8) (Closes: #192216)
457 - Fix incorrect path for 'partial' directory on apt-get(8)
459 - Fixes to pt_BR translation from Andre Luis Lopes <andrelop@ig.com.br>
461 - Updated apt_preferences(5) man page with many corrections and
462 clarifications from Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>
464 - Fix SGML validation errors in apt-cache.8.sgml introduced in 0.5.5 or so
465 - Add a simple example to apt-ftparchive(1) (Closes: #95257)
466 - Add bug script for collecting configuration info (Closes: #176482)
468 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Mon, 21 Jul 2003 01:59:43 -0400
470 apt (0.5.5.1) unstable; urgency=low
472 * Move the target of the example docs from doc to binary. Closes:
474 * Fix api breakage that broke apt-ftparchive and apt-cache dumpavail, by
475 backing out change that incorretly attempted to handle Package sections
476 larger than 32k. Closes: #192373
477 * Fix never-ending loop with apt-get install -V. Closes: #192355.
479 -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2003 12:30:16 -0500
481 apt (0.5.5) unstable; urgency=low
483 * New deb version compare function, that has no integer limits, and
484 supports pre-versions using ~. Code ported from dpkg.
485 * Fix handling of [!arch] for build-dependencies. Closes: #88798, #149595
486 * Fix handling of build-deps on unknown packages. Closes: #88664, #153307
487 * "apt-get --arch-only build-dep" to install only architecture-
488 dependent build dependencies. Bump minor shared lib number to reflect
489 small change in BuildDepend API.
490 * APT::Build-Essential configuration option (defaults to "build-essential")
491 so that "apt-get build-dep" will ensure build essential packages are
492 installed prior to installing other build-dependencies. Closes: #148879
493 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH thing. Closes: #109430, #147529
494 * /usr/doc reference in postinst. Closes: #126189
495 * Doc updates. Closes: #120689
496 * Possible apt-cache segfault. Closes: #120311, #118431, #117915, #135295,
498 * Print special message for EAI_AGAIN. Closes: #131397
499 * libapt-pkg-dev needs to bring in the apt-inst library if linking
500 is to work. Closes: #133943
501 * Typos, Doc Stuff. Closes: #132772, #129970, #123642, #114892, #113786,
502 #109591, #105920, #103678, #139752, #138186, #138054, #138050,
503 #139994, #142955, #151654, #151834, #147611, #154268, #173971
504 * Fix possibility for tag file parsing to fail in some unlikely situations.
506 * Use std C++ names for some header files. Closes: #128741
507 * Do not check for free space if --no-download. Closes: #117856
508 * Actually implement or group handling for 'upgrade'. Closes: #133950
509 * "Internal Error, Couldn't configure pre-depend" is not actually an
510 internal error, it is a packaging error and now it says so, and
511 pinpoints the problem dependency. Closes: #155621
512 * Allows failure to write to a pipe for post-invoke stuff. Closes: #89830
513 * Use usr/share/doc for dhelp. Closes: #115701
514 * --print-uris works with 'update'. Closes: #57070
515 * Options Dpkg::MaxArgs,Dpkg::MaxArgBytes to allow a much longer dpkg
517 * Fixed 2 little OR group bugs, thanks to Yann Dirson. Closes: #143995,
519 * Allow an uninstalled package to be marked for removal on an install
520 line (meaning not to automatically install it), also fix some dodgy
521 handling of protected packages. Closes: #92287, #116011
522 * Fix errant prefix matching in version selection. Closes: #105968
523 * Ensure that all files needed to run APT as a user are readable and
524 ignore roots umask for these files. Closes: #108801
525 * Support larger config spaces. Closes: #111914
526 * 'apt-get update' no longer does 'Building Dependency Tree'.
527 * When matching regexs allways print a message. Change regex activation
528 charset. Closes: #147817
529 * Don't die if lines in sources.list are too long. Closes: #146846
530 * Show file name on apt-extracttemplate error messges. Closes: #151835
531 * i18n gettext stuff, based on work from Michael Piefel: Closes: #95933
532 * Some highly unlikely memory faults. Closes: #155842
533 * C++ stuff for G++3.2. Closes: #162617, #165515,
534 * apt-config dumps sends to stdout not stderr now. Closes: #146294
535 * Fix segfault in FindAny when /i is used, and there is no default.
537 * Add s390x to archtable. Closese: #160992.
538 * Update config.sub/config.guess in cvs, and add support to debian/rules
539 to update them from /usr/share/misc if they exist. Closes: #155014
540 * Remove 'Sorry' from messages. Closes: #148824.
541 * Change wording of 'additional disk space usage' message. Closes:
543 * apt-extracttemplates now prepends the package name when extracting
544 files. Closes: #132776
545 * Add -n synonym for --names-only for apt-cache. Closes: #130689
546 * Display both current version and new version in apt-get -s. Closes:
548 * Add an options and timeout config item to ssh/rsh. Closes: #90654
549 * libapt-pkg-dev now depends on apt-utils. Closes: #133942.
550 * Change verbose logging output of apt-ftparchive to go to stderr,
551 instead of stdout. Also, errors that occur no longer go to stdout,
552 but stderr. Closes: #161592
553 * Test for timegm in configure. Closes: #165516.
554 * s/st_mtime/mtime/ on our local stat structure in apt-ftparchive, to
555 support compliation on platforms where st_mtime is a macro. Closes:
557 * Check the currently mounted cdrom, to see if it's the one we are
558 interested in. Closes: #154602
559 * Refer to reportbug instead of bug in the man pages. Closes: #173745
560 * Link apt-inst to apt-pkg. Closes: #175055
561 * New apt_preferences man page from Thomas Hood, Susan Kleinmann,
563 * Fix > 300 col screen segfault. Closes: #176052
564 * Rebuild with gcc-3.2. Closes: #177752, #178008.
565 * Fix build-dep handling of | dependencies.
566 Closes: #98640, #145997, #158896, #172901
567 * Double default value of APT::Cache-Limit, until such time as it
568 can be made more dynamic. Closes: #178623.
569 * Report uris with '.gz' when there are errors. Closes: #178435.
570 * When installing build-deps, make sure the new version will
571 satisfy build requirements. Closes: #178121
572 * Split offline and guide documentation into apt-doc. This was done so
573 that binary-arch builds do not require documention deps. Note, that
574 apt-doc is not installed on upgrades.
575 * Use doc-base, instead of dhelp directly. Closes: #110389
576 * Change http message 'Waiting for file' to 'Waiting for headers'.
578 * Remove trailing lines on package lists in apt-get. Closes: #178736.
579 * Fix origin pins for file:// uris. Closes: #189014.
580 * Apply typo and syntax patch from bug to apt-cache.8.sgml. Closes:
582 * s/dpkg-preconfig/dpkg-preconfigure/ in examples/configure-index.
584 * Fix some typos in the apt-get manual. Closes: #163932.
585 * Apply patch from bug, to change frozen to testing, and then do it
586 everywhere else. Closes: #165085.
587 * Update es.po. Closes: #183111.
588 * Add pt_BR translation of apt_preferences(5). Also, build fr manpages.
590 * Add a vcg command to apt-cache, similiar to dotty. Closes: #150512.
591 * Add option to apt-get to show versions of packages being
593 * Be quiet in apt.post{inst,rm}. Closes: #70685.
594 * apt-get now prints out suggested and recommended packages. Closes:
596 * Insert some newlines in the cdrom change media message. Closes:
598 * Add a rdepends command to apt-cache. Closes: #159864.
599 * When building the dpkg command line, allow for 8192 chars to be used,
600 instead of only 1024.
601 * APT::Immediate-Configure had inverted semantics(false meant it was
602 enabled). Closes: #173619.
603 * Fix status file parser so that if a record is larger than 32k, the
604 buffer size will be doubled, and the read attempted again. Closes:
607 -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Sun, 27 Apr 2003 01:23:12 -0500
609 apt (0.5.4) unstable; urgency=low
611 * M68k config.guess patch. Closes: #88913
612 * Bi-yearly test on OpenBSD and Solaris
613 * Doc updates. Closes: #89121, #89854, #99671, #98353, #95823, #93057,
614 #97520, #102867, #101071, #102421, #101565, #98272, #106914,
616 * Various cosmetic code updates. Closes: #89066, #89066, #89152
617 * Add "pre-auto" as an option for DSelect::Clean (run autoclean after
619 * More patches from Alfredo for Vendors and more SHA-1 stuff
620 * Fix for AJ's 'desire to remove perl-5.005' and possibly other
621 similar situations. Closes: #56708, #59432
622 * no_proxy and ftp. Closes: #89671
623 * Philippe Batailler's man page patches.
624 * Fix for display bug. Closes: #92033, #93652, #98468
625 * Use more than 16bits for the dep ID. Some people ran out..
626 Closes: #103020, #97809, #102951, #99974, #107362, #107395, #107362,
627 #106911, #107395, #108968
628 * Reordered some things to make dante and FTP happier. Closes: #92757
629 * James R. Van Zandt's guide.sgml updates. Closes: #90027
630 * apt-ftparchive copes with no uncompressed package files + contents.
631 * French man pages from philippe batailler - well sort of. They
633 * run-parts. Closes: #94286
634 * 'apt-cache policy' preferences debug tool.
635 * Whatever. Closes: #89762
636 * libstdc++ and HURD. Closes: #92025
637 * More apt-utils verbage. Closes: #86954
638 * Fliped comparision operator. Closes: #94618
639 * Used the right copyright file. Closes: #65691
640 * Randolph's G++3 patches.
641 * Fixed no_proxy tokanizing. Closes: #100046
642 * Strip Config-Version when copying status to available. Closes: #97520
643 * Segfault with missing source files. Closes: #100325
644 * EINTR check. Closes: #102293
645 * Various changes to the locking metholodgy for --print-uris.
647 * Lame LD_LIBRARY_PATH thing. Closes: #98928
648 * apt-cache search searchs provide names too now. Closes: #98695
649 * Checksum and long lines problem. Closes: #106591
650 * .aptignr and empty files are just a warning. Closes: #97364
652 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Sat, 18 Aug 2001 17:21:59 -0500
654 apt (0.5.3) unstable; urgency=low
656 * JoeyH's dpkg::preconfig not working. Closes: #88675
657 * Fixed apt override disparity
658 * Alfredo's SHA-1 and related patches
660 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:39:43 -0700
662 apt (0.5.2) unstable; urgency=low
664 * Fixed mention of /usr/doc in the long description
665 * JoeyH's downgrade bug -- don't use 0.5.1
666 * Doc bug. Closes: #88538
667 * Fault in building release strings. Closes: #88533
669 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:39:43 -0700
671 apt (0.5.1) unstable; urgency=low
673 * Fixed #82894 again, or should be and.
674 * Process the option string right. Closes: #86921
675 * Don't eat the last command for pipes. Closes: #86923
676 * Ignore .* for configuration directory processing. Closes: #86923
677 * Alfredo's no_proxy patch
678 * Documentation fixes. Closes: #87091
679 * JoeyH's double slash bug. Closes: #87266
680 * Unintitialized buffer and apt-ftparchive contents generation.
682 * Build-deps on virtual packages. Closes: #87639
683 * Fixes glibc/libstdc++ symbol dependencies by including glibc and
684 libstdc++ version info in the library soname and in the package
685 provides. Closes: #87426
686 * Updated soname version to 0.3.2
687 * apt-extracttemplates moved from debconf into apt-utils
688 * s390 archtable entry. Closes: #88232
690 * Some instances where the status file can source a package in a
691 non-sensical way. Closes: #87390
692 * Work better if there are duplicate sources.list entries.
693 * Fixed the resetting of Dir with "dir {};". Closes: #87323
695 -- Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org> Sat, 3 Mar 2001 15:37:38 -0700
697 apt (0.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
699 * Fixed an obscure bug with missing final double new lines in
701 * Changed the apt-cdrom index copy routine to use the new section
703 * Added a package file sorter, apt-sortpkgs
704 * Parse obsolete Optional dependencies.
705 * Added Ben's rsh method. Closes: #57794
706 * Added IPv6 FTP support and better DNS rotation support.
707 * Include the server IP in error messages when using a DNS rotation.
709 * Made most of the byte counters into doubles to prevent 32bit overflow.
711 * HTTP Authorization. Closes: #61158
712 * Ability to parse and return source index build depends from Randolph.
713 * new 'apt-get build-dep' command from Randolph. Closes: #63982
714 * Added apt-ftparchive the all dancing all singing FTP archive
716 * Allow version specifications with =1.2.4-3 and /2.2 or /stable postfixes
718 * Removed useless internal cruft including the xstatus file.
719 * Fixed config parser bugs. Closes: #67848, #71108
720 * Brain Damanged apt-get config options changed, does not change the command
721 line interface, except to allow --enable-* to undo a configuration
724 No-Download -> Download
725 No-Upgrade -> Upgrade
726 * Made this fix configable (DSelect::CheckDir) and default to disabled:
727 * No remove prompt if the archives dir has not changed. Closes: #55709
728 Because it is stupid in the case where no files were downloaded due to
729 a resumed-aborted install, or a full cache! Closes: #65952
730 * Obscure divide by zero problem. Closes: #64394
731 * Update sizetable for mips. Closes: #62288
732 * Fixed a bug with passive FTP connections
733 * Has sizetable entry for sparc64. Closes: #64869
734 * Escape special characters in the ::Label section of the cdroms.lst
735 * Created apt-utils and python-apt packages
736 * Due to the new policy engine, the available file may contain entries
737 from the status file. These are generated if the package is not obsolete
738 but the policy engine prohibits using the version from the package files.
739 They can be identified by the lack of a Filename field.
740 * The new policy engine. Closes: #66509, #66944, #45122, #45094, #40006,
741 #36223, #33468, #22551
742 * Fixed deb-src line for non-us. Closes: #71501, #71601
743 * Fixes for G++ 2.96, s/friend/friend class/
744 * Fixed mis doc of APT::Get::Fix-Missing. Closes: #69269
745 * Confirmed fix for missing new line problem. Closes: #69386
746 * Fixed up dhelp files. Closes: #71312
747 * Added some notes about dselect and offline usage. Closes: #66473, #38316
748 * Lock files on read only file systems are ignored w/ warning.
750 * apt-get update foo now gives an error! Closes: #42891
751 * Added test for shlibs on hurd. Closes: #71499
752 * Clarified apt-cache document. Closes: #71934
753 * DocBook SGML man pages and some improvements in the text..
754 * sigwinch thing. Closes: #72382
755 * Caching can be turned off by setting the cache file names blank.
756 * Ignores arches it does not know about when autocleaning. Closes: #72862
757 * New function in apt-config to return dirs, files, bools and integers.
758 * Fixed an odd litle bug in MarkInstall and fixed it up to handle
759 complex cases involving OR groups and provides.
760 68754 describes confusing messages which are the result of this..
761 Closes: #63149, #69394, #68754, #77683, #66806, #81486, #78712
762 * Speeling mistake and return code for the 'wicked' resolver error
763 Closes: #72621, #75226, #77464
764 * Solved unable to upgrade libc6 from potato to woody due to 3 package
765 libc6 dependency loop problem.
766 * Leading sources.list spaces. Closes: #76010
767 * Removed a possible infinite loop while processing installations.
768 * Man page updates. Closes: #75411, #75560, #64292, #78469
769 * ReduceSourceList bug. Closes: #76027
770 * --only-source option. Closes: #76320
771 * Typos. Closes: #77812, #77999
772 * Different status messages. Closes: #76652, #78353
773 * /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ directory for Joey and Matt and pipe protocol 2
774 * OS detection an support for the new pseduo standard of os-arch for the
775 Architecture string. Also uses regexing.. Closes: #39227, #72349
776 * Various i18n stuff. Note that this still needs some i18n wizard
777 to do the last gettextization right. Closes: #62386
778 * Fixed a problem with some odd http servers/proxies that did not return
779 the content size in the header. Closes: #79878, #44379
780 * Little acquire bugs. Closes: #77029, #55820
781 * _POSIX_THREADS may not be defined to anything, just defined..
783 * Spelling of Ignore-Hold correctly. Closes: #78042
784 * Unlock the dpkg db if in download only mode. Closes: #84851
785 * Brendan O'Dea's dselect admindir stuff. Closes: #62811
786 * Patch from BenC. Closes: #80810
787 * Single output of some names in lists. Closes: #80498, #43286
788 * Nice message for people who can't read syserror output. Closes: #84734
789 * OR search function. Closes: #82894
790 * User's guide updates. Closes: #82469
791 * The AJ/JoeyH var/state to var/lib transition patch. Closes: #59094
792 * Various CD bugs, again thanks to Greenbush
793 Closes: #80946, #76547, #71810, #70049, #69482
794 * Using potato debhelper. Closes: #57977
795 * I cannot self-terminate. Closes: #74928
797 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Wed, 21 Feb 2001 00:39:15 -0500
799 apt (0.3.19) frozen unstable; urgency=low
801 * Updates to apt-cdrom to support integrated non-us nicely, thanks to
803 * Fixed that apt-get/cdrom deadlock thing. Closes: #59853, #62945, #61976
804 * Fixed hardcoded path. Closes: #59743
805 * Fixed Jay's relative path bug
806 * Allowed source only CDs. Closes: #58952
807 * Space check is supressed if --print-uris is given. Closes: #58965
808 * Clarified the documenation examples for non-us. Closes: #58646
809 * Typo in the package description. Closes: #60230
810 * Man Page typo. Closes: #60347
811 * Typo in Algorithms.cc. Closes: #63577
812 * Evil dotty function in apt-cache for generating dependency graphs
813 with the as-yet-unpackaged GraphVis.
814 * Appears to have been fixed in Janurary.. Closes: #57981
815 * New config.guess/sub for the new archs. Closes: #60874
816 * Fixed error reporting for certain kinds of resolution failures.
818 * Made autoclean respect 'q' settings. Closes: #63023
819 * Fixed up the example sources.list. Closes: #63676
820 * Added DPkg::FlushSTDIN to control the flushing of stdin before
821 forking dpkg. Closes: #63991
823 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Fri, 12 May 2000 21:10:54 -0700
825 apt (0.3.18) frozen unstable; urgency=low
827 * Changes in the postinst script. Closes: #56855, #57237
828 * Fixed bashism. Closes: #57216, #57335
829 * Doc updates. Closes: #57772, #57069, #57331, #57833, #57896
831 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Sun, 13 Feb 2000 01:52:31 -0800
833 apt (0.3.17) unstable; urgency=low
835 * RFC 2732 usage for CDROM URIs and fixes to apt-cdrom
836 * Fixed the configuration parser to not blow up if ; is in the config
838 * Applied visual patch to dselect install script . Closes #55214
839 * Included the configure-index example
841 * Library soname has increased
842 * Fixed default sources.list to have correct URLs for potato when it
844 * Added a message about erasing sources.list to dselect setup script
846 * No remove prompt if the archives dir has not changed. Closes: #55709
847 * Fixed inclusion of 2nd sample config file. Closes: #55374
848 * Made file mtimes of 0 not confuse the methods If-Modifed-Since check.
851 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Mon, 31 Jan 2000 12:12:40 -0800
853 apt (0.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
855 * Made --no-download work. Closes: #52993
856 * Now compiles on OpenBSD, Solaris and HP-UX
857 * Clarify segfault errors
858 * More debhelper fixes. Closes: #52662, #54566, #52090, #53531, #54769
859 * Fix for Joel's discovery of glibc removal behavoir.
860 * Fix for Ben Collins file: uri from slink upgrade.
861 * Fixed resume code in FTP. Closes: #54323
862 * Take more precautions to prevent the corruption Joey Hess saw.
863 * Fixed --no-list-cleanup
864 * RFC 2732 URI parsing ([] for hostnames).
865 * Typo in apt-cache man page. Closes: #54949
867 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jan 2000 08:04:15 -0800
869 apt (0.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
871 * Added DSelect::WaitAfterDownload Closes: #49549
872 * Fixed cast error in byteswap macro and supporting code. Closes: #50093
873 * Fixed buffer overflow for wide terminal sizes. Closes: #50295
874 * Made -s and clean not do anything. Closes: #50238
875 * Problem with Protected packages and the new OR code.
876 * /usr/share/doc stuff. Closes: #51017, #50228, #51141
877 * Remove doesn't require a package to be installable. Closes: #51175
878 * FTP proxy touch ups in the mabn page. Closes: #51315, #51314
880 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Sat, 4 Dec 1999 21:17:24 -0800
882 apt (0.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
884 * Fix Perl or group pre-depends thing Closes: #46091, #46096, #46233, #45901
885 * Fix handling of dpkg's conversions from < -> <= Closes: #46094, #47088
886 * Make unparsable priorities non-fatal Closes: #46266, #46267, #46293, #46298
887 * Fix handling of '/' for the dist name. Closes: #43830, #45640, #45692
888 * Fixed 'Method gave a blank filename' error from IMS queries onto CDs.
889 Closes: #45034, #45695, #46537
890 * Made OR group handling in the problem resolver more elaborate. Closes: #45646
891 * Added APT::Clean-Installed option. Closes: #45973
892 * Moves the free space check to after the calculated size is printed.
893 Closes: #46639, #47498
894 * mipsel arch Closes: #47614
895 * Beautified URI printing to not include passwords Closes: #46857
896 * Fixed little problem with --no-download Closes: #47557
897 * Tweaked Dselect 'update' script to re-gen the avail file even in the
898 event of a failure Closes: #47112
899 * Retries for source archives too Closes: #47529
900 * Unmounts CDROMs iff it mounted them Closes: #45299
901 * Checks for the partial directories before doing downloads Closes: #47392
902 * no_proxy environment variable (http only!) Closes: #43476
903 * apt-cache showsrc Closes: #45799
904 * De-Refs Single Pure virtual packages. Closes: #42437, #43555
905 * Regexs for install. Closes: #35304, #38835
906 * Dependency reports now show OR group relations
907 * Re-Install feature. Cloes: #46961, #37393, #38919
908 * Locks archive directory on clean (woops)
909 * Remove is not 'sticky'. Closes: #48392
910 * Slightly more accurate 'can not find package' message. Closes: #48311
911 * --trivial-only and --no-remove. Closes: #48518
912 * Increased the cache size. Closes: #47648
913 * Comment woopsie. Closes: #48789
914 * Removes existing links when linking sources. Closes: #48775
915 * Problem resolver does not install all virtual packages. Closes: #48591, #49252
916 * Clearer usage message about 'source' Closes: #48858
917 * Immediate configure internal error Closes: #49062, #48884
919 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Sun, 7 Nov 1999 20:21:25 -0800
921 apt (0.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
923 * Fix timestamp miss in FTP. Closes: #44363
924 * Fix sorting of Kept packages. Closes: #44377
925 * Fix Segfault for dselect-upgrade. Closes: #44436
926 * Fix handling of '/' for the dist name. Closes #43830
927 * Added APT::Get::Diff-Only and Tar-Only options. Closes #44384
928 * Add commented-out deb-src URI to default sources.list file.
930 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Sun, 19 Sep 1999 18:54:20 -0700
932 apt (0.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
934 * Fix for typo in the dhelp index. Closes: #40377
935 * Multiple media swap support
936 * Purge support. Closes: #33291, #40694
937 * Better handling of - remove notation. Closes: #41024
938 * Purge support. Closes: #33291, #40694
939 * Error code on failed update. Closes: #41053
940 * apt-cdrom adds entries for source directories. Closes: #41231
941 * Sorts the output of any list. Closes: #41107
942 * Fixes the looping problem. Closes: #41784, #42414, #44022
943 * Fixes the CRC mechanism to lowercase all strings. Closes: #41839
944 * More checks to keep the display sane. Particularly when fail-over is
945 used with local mirrors and CD-Roms. Closes: #42127, #43130, #43668
946 * PThread lockup problem on certain sparc/m68k. Closes: #40628
947 * apt-cdrom understands .gz Package files too. Closes: #42779
948 * Spelling error in dselect method description. Closes: #43251
949 * Added security to the default source list. Closes: #43356
951 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 09:04:28 -0700
953 apt (0.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
955 * Fix for mis-parsed file: URIs. Closes: #40373, #40366, #40230
956 * Fix for properly upgrading the system from perl 5.004 to 5.005
958 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:06:44 -0700
960 apt (0.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
962 * Spelling error in cachefile.cc. Closes: #39885
963 * Trailing slash in dselect install if you try to use the
964 default config file. Closes: #40011
965 * Simulate works for autoclean. Closes: #39141
966 * Fixed spelling errors. Closes: #39673
967 * Changed url parsing a bit. Closes: #40070, #40069
968 * Version 0.3.8 will be for slink/hamm (GNU libc 2).
970 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:02:52 -0700
972 apt (0.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
974 * Fixed missing text in the apt-get(8) page. Closes: #37596
975 * Made --simulate and friends work with apt-get source. Closes: #37597, #37656
976 * Fixed inclusion of man pages in the -doc/-dev package. Closes: #37633, #38651
977 * Fixed handling of the -q option with not-entirely integer arguments
979 * Man page typo Closes: #37762
980 * Fixed parsing of the Source: line. Closes: #37679
981 * Dpkg/dpkg-hurd source bug. Closes: #38004, #38032
982 * Added a check for an empty cache directory. Closes: #37963
983 * Return a failure code if -d is given and packages fail to download.
985 * Arranged for an ftp proxy specifing an http server to work. See the
986 important note in the sources.list man page.
987 * Accounted for resumed files in the cps calculation. Closes: #36787
988 * Deal with duplicate same version different packages. Closes: #30237
989 * Added --no-download. Closes: #38095
990 * Order of apt-cdrom dist detection. Closes: #38139
991 * Fix apt-cdrom chop handling and missing lines. Closes: #37276
993 * Suggests dpkg-dev for apt-get source. Closes: #38158
994 * Fixed typo in apt-get help. Closes: #38712
995 * Improved the error message in the case of broken held package. Closes: #38777
996 * Fixed handling of MD5 failures
997 * Documented list notation Closes: #39008
998 * Change the 'b' to 'B'. Closes: #39007
1000 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jun 1999 18:36:20 -0700
1002 apt (0.3.6) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * Note that 0.3.5 never made it out the door..
1005 * Fix for apt-cdrom and unusual disk label locations. Closes: #35571
1006 * Made APT print numbers in decimal. Closes: #35617, #37319
1007 * Buffer munching fix for FTP. Closes: #35868
1008 * Typo in sample config file. Closes: #35907
1009 * Fixed whitespace in version compares. Closes: #35968, #36283, #37051
1010 * Changed installed size counter to only count unpacked packages.
1012 * apt-get source support. Closes: #23934, #27190
1013 * Renames .debs that fail MD5 checking, provides automatic corruption
1014 recovery. Closes: #35931
1015 * Fixed autoconf verison. Closes: #37305
1016 * Random Segfaulting. Closes: #37312, #37530
1017 * Fixed apt-cache man page. Closes: #36904
1018 * Added a newline to apt-cache showpkg. Closes: #36903
1020 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 09:18:49 -0700
1022 apt (0.3.4) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Release for Ben while he is out of town.
1025 * Checked the size of partial files. Closes: #33705
1026 * apt-get should not print progress on non-tty. Closes: #34944
1027 * s/guide.text.gz/users-guide.txt.gz/ debian/control: Closes: #35207
1028 * Applied cdrom patches from Torsten. Closes: #35140, #35141
1029 * smbmounted cdrom fix. Closes: #35470
1030 * Changed ie to eg. Closes: #35196
1032 -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 18:26:44 -0500
1034 apt (0.3.3) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Fixes bug with file:/ URIs and multi-CD handling. Closes: #34923
1038 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:15:44 -0800
1040 apt (0.3.2) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * Major release into unstable of v3
1043 * These bugs have been fixed, explanations are in the bug system, read
1044 the man pages as well..
1045 Closes: #21113, #22507, #22675, #22836, #22892, #32883, #33006, #34121,
1046 #23984, #24685, #24799, #25001, #25019, #34223, #34296, #34355,
1047 #24021, #25022, #25026, #25104, #25176, #31557, #31691, #31853,
1048 #25458, #26019, #26433, #26592, #26670, #27100, #27100, #27601,
1049 #28184, #28391, #28778, #29293, #29351, #27841, #28172, #30260,
1050 #29382, #29441, #29903, #29920, #29983, #30027, #30076, #30112,
1051 #31009, #31155, #31381, #31883, #32140, #32395, #32584. #34465,
1052 #30383, #30441, #30472, #30643, #30827, #30324, #36425, #34596
1054 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Mon, 15 Mar 1999 19:14:25 -0800
1056 apt (0.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
1058 * Minor release of cvs version.
1059 * Added virtual package libapt-pkgx.x
1061 -- Mitch Blevins <mblevin@debian.org> Wed, 10 Mar 1999 07:52:44 -0500
1063 apt (0.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
1065 * New experimental version.
1067 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Tue, 15 Dec 1998 12:53:21 -0800
1069 apt (0.1.9) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1071 * Return to the wacky numbering for when we build 0.1.8 for hamm
1072 * Important bug related to APT on the Alpha fixed
1073 * apt-get dist-upgrade problems fixed
1074 * tiny patch for http method to fix an endless loop
1075 * nice fix from /usr/doc/lintian/ to remove rpath nastiness from
1076 libtool and add proper shared lib dependancies
1077 * now dh_shlibdeps is called with LD_LIBRARY_PATH=debian/tmp/usr/lib
1078 in case an old libpkg is installed while building APT to prevent
1079 spurious dependancies
1081 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Thu, 5 Nov 1998 17:43:25 -0800
1083 apt (0.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * New build with libstdc++2.9.
1086 * Various fixes; read the Changelog.
1088 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Thu, 15 Oct 1998 18:29:18 -0700
1090 apt (0.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * Various fixes in the FTP method for error checking. Fixes: #26188.
1093 * Spelling corrections in dselect method. Fixes: #25884
1094 * Fixes for compilation on alpha/ppc. Fixes: #25313, #26108.
1095 * No more bo releases: we're using a normal numbering system now.
1097 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 19:27:13 -0700
1099 apt (0.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * Changed sources.list to point to 'unstable' by default, as
1102 'frozen' no longer exists!
1104 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 1998 22:00:18 -0700
1106 apt (0.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * New upstreamish version.
1109 * ftp method rewritten in C. Removes dependancies on all perl/perl
1110 related modules. This fixes many of the ftp method bugs.
1112 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 22:19:00 -0700
1114 apt (0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * Release for unstable.
1118 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 1998 20:48:30 -0700
1120 apt (0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * Kludge to fix problem in libnet-perl with illegal anonymous
1124 * Moved to unstable; apt is in a useable state now.
1125 * Fixed version numbering. From now on, numbering will be:
1126 0.1 (no actual release) -> 0.1.0bo (release for libc5) ->
1127 0.1.1 (release for unstable). Thanks, Manoj.
1129 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 1998 20:40:58 -0700
1131 apt (0.0.17-1) experimental; urgency=low
1133 * Fixed problem with libc6 version compare
1134 * Scott's away for a while, so I'll be packaging apt for the time
1137 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jun 1998 19:02:03 -0700
1139 apt (0.0.16-1) experimental; urgency=low
1141 * Modifications to make apt-get more friendly when backgrounded.
1142 * Updated documentation.
1143 * Updates to graphic widgets
1145 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Mon, 8 Jun 1998 11:22:02 -0400
1147 apt (0.0.15-0.2bo) experimental; urgency=low
1150 * Bob Hilliards crash
1152 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Sun, 31 May 1998 20:18:35 -0600
1154 apt (0.0.15-0.1bo) experimental; urgency=low
1157 * libstdc++272 patch
1159 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Sun, 31 May 1998 20:18:35 -0600
1161 apt (0.0.15) experimental; urgency=low
1163 * Clean up source tarball (no user-visible changes)
1165 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Tue, 26 May 1998 12:23:53 -0400
1167 apt (0.0.14) experimental; urgency=low
1169 * Updates in ordering code to make sure certain upgrades work correctly.
1170 * Made dselect/setup understand ftp as well as http
1172 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Wed, 20 May 1998 13:33:32 -0400
1174 apt (0.0.13-bo1) experimental; urgency=low
1178 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 1998 15:10:49 -0600
1180 apt (0.0.13) experimental; urgency=low
1182 * Remove hardcoded egcc from debian/rules (#21575)
1183 * Fixes for ordering logic when system has a number of unpacked
1184 but unconfigured packages installed.
1185 * Spelling fix in dselect install method (#22556)
1187 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 20:08:33 -0400
1189 apt (0.0.12) experimental; urgency=low
1191 * Fixed problems with package cache corruption.
1192 * Made to depend on libc6 >= 2.0.7pre1 due to timezone problems with
1194 * Interface and documentation improvements.
1196 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Sat, 16 May 1998 23:17:32 -0400
1198 apt (0.0.11) experimental; urgency=low
1200 * Change dependancies to pre-depends since breaking your packaging tools
1201 in the middle of an installation isn't very good.
1202 * Bug fixes to ftp method and general apt-get code
1204 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Fri, 15 May 1998 08:57:38 -0400
1206 apt (0.0.10) experimental; urgency=low
1208 * Run "dpkg --configure -a" after an aborted dselect install
1209 * Fixed problem with install looping
1210 * Support for authenticating proxys: (note this isn't terribly secure)
1211 http_proxy="http://user:pass@firewall:port/"
1212 * Substitute $ARCH in sources.list
1213 * Fixes in the resumption code for ftp
1215 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 1998 09:14:41 -0400
1217 apt (0.0.9) experimental; urgency=low
1219 * Added ftp support.
1220 * Various other less visible bug fixes.
1221 * Fixed problem with segfault when apt-get invoked in a non-existant
1222 directory (Bug #21863)
1223 * Bumped policy to 2.4.1
1225 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Fri, 1 May 1998 09:18:19 -0400
1227 apt (0.0.8) experimental; urgency=low
1229 * Fixed generated available file (Bug #21836)
1230 * Added download ETA (Bug #21774).
1231 * Fixed hardcoded ARCH (Bug #21751).
1232 * Fixed check on http_proxy (Bug #21795).
1233 * Added download speed indicator.
1235 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:58:32 -0400
1237 apt (0.0.7) experimental; urgency=low
1239 * Remove libdeity and apt from package for now, since only apt-get and
1240 apt-cache are actually useful right now.
1241 * Clean up handling of package installation errors.
1242 * Added timeout to http transfers (#21269)
1243 * Updated setup for dselect/apt method.
1245 * Long options (added in 0.0.6)
1247 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Tue, 21 Apr 1998 09:06:49 -0400
1249 apt (0.0.6) experimental; urgency=low
1252 * Revamped download status display.
1253 * Call apt-get clean after successful install in dselect.
1254 * Added "apt-get clean" which deletes package files from /var/cache/apt
1256 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 15:13:59 -0400
1258 apt (0.0.5) experimental; urgency=low
1260 * Ignore signals while dpkg is running so we don't leave dpkg running in
1261 the background (#20804)
1262 * Check Packages as well as Packages.gz for file URIs (#20784)
1263 * Spelling cleanup (#20800)
1264 * Added -m option to permit upgrade to go on in the case of a bad mirror.
1265 This option may result in incomplete upgrades when used with -f.
1267 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Tue, 7 Apr 1998 12:40:29 -0400
1269 apt (0.0.4) experimental; urgency=low
1272 * Various documentation updates and cleanup.
1273 * Added '-f' option to apt-get attempt to fix broken dependancies.
1275 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Sat, 4 Apr 1998 14:36:00 -0500
1277 apt (0.0.3) experimental; urgency=low
1279 * Added a shlibs.local file to prevent apt from depending on itself.
1280 * Updates to how apt-get handles bad states in installed packages.
1281 * Updated rules to make sure build works from a freshly checked out source
1282 archive. Building from CVS needs libtool/automake/autoconf, builds from
1283 the distributed source package should have no such dependancy.
1285 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Fri, 3 Apr 1998 11:49:47 -0500
1287 apt (0.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * Updates to apt-get and http binding for dselect method (apt).
1290 * Updating version number from 0.0.1, which was released only on IRC.
1292 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Fri, 3 Apr 1998 00:35:18 -0500
1294 apt (0.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1298 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 12:49:28 -0500