1 apt (0.5.31) unstable; urgency=low
3 * New Romanian translation from Sorin Batariuc <sorin@bonbon.net>
8 apt (0.5.30) hoary; urgency=low
10 * Patch from Michael Vogt to enable Packages.bz2 use, with a fallback to
11 Packages.gz if it is not present (Closes: #37525)
13 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:57:28 -0800
15 apt (0.5.29) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Don't hardcode paths in apt.cron.daily
18 * Add to apt.cron.daily the capability to pre-download upgradeable
20 * Place timestamp files in /var/lib/apt/periodic, rather than
22 * Standardize debhelper files a bit
23 - Create all directories in debian/dirs rather than creating some on
24 the dh_installdirs command line
25 - Rename debian/dirs to debian/apt.dirs, debian/examples to
28 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 13 Nov 2004 17:58:07 -0800
30 apt (0.5.28) hoary; urgency=low
32 * Translation updates:
33 - Updated Hungarian from Kelemen Gábor <kelemeng@gnome.hu> (Closes: #263436)
34 - Updated Greek from George Papamichelakis (Closes: #265004)
35 - Updated Simplified Chinese from Tchaikov (Closes: #265190)
36 - Updated French by Christian Perrier (Closes: #265816)
37 - Updated Japanese by Kenshi Muto (Closes: #265630)
38 - Updated Catalan from Jordi Mallach
39 - Updated Dutch from Bart Cornelis (Closes: #268258, #278697)
40 - Updated Portuguese from Miguel Figueiredo (Closes: #268265)
41 - Updated Polish from Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org> (Closes: #268451)
42 - Updated Danish from Claus Hindsgaul (Closes: #269417)
43 - Updated Norwegian Nynorsk from Håvard Korsvoll <korsvoll@skulelinux.no>
45 - Updated Russian from Yuri Kozlov <yuray@id.ru> (Closes: #271104)
46 - Updated Italian from Samuele Giovanni Tonon <samu@debian.org>
48 - Updated Brazilian Portuguese from Andre Luis Lopes (Closes: #273944)
49 - Updated Slovak from Peter Mann (Closes: #279481)
50 * APT::Get::APT::Get::No-List-Cleanup -> APT::Get::List-Cleanup in apt-get.cc
52 * Merge Ubuntu changes:
53 - Set default Dpkg::MaxArgs to 1024, and Dpkg::MaxArgBytes to 32k.
54 Needed to work around ordering bugs when installing a large number of
56 - Patch from Michael Vogt to add an optional cron job which
57 can run apt-get update periodically
58 * Add arch-build target to debian/rules
60 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 13 Nov 2004 15:52:20 -0800
62 apt (0.5.27) unstable; urgency=high
64 * Sneak in a bunch of updated translations before the freeze
66 * Translation updates:
67 - New Finnish translation from Tapio Lehtonen <tale@debian.org>
69 - New Bosnian translation from Safir Šećerović <sapphire@linux.org.ba>
71 - Fix Italian incontrario (Closes: #217277)
72 - Updated Spanish from Ruben Porras (Closes: #260483)
73 - Updated Danish from Claus Hindsgaul (Closes: #260569)
74 - Updated Slovak from Peter Mann (Closes: #260627)
75 - Updated Portuguese from Miguel Figueiredo (Closes: #261423)
76 * Bring configure-index up to date with documented options, patch from
77 Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> (Closes: #259540)
78 * Note in apt.conf(5) that configure-index does not contain strictly
79 default values, but also examples
80 * Add Polish translation of offline.sgml (Closes: #259229)
82 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 2004 09:30:12 -0700
84 apt (0.5.26) unstable; urgency=low
86 * Translation updates:
87 - Spanish update from Ruben Porras <nahoo82@telefonica.net> (Closes: #248214)
88 - Sync Spanish apt(8) (Closes: #249241)
89 - French update from Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> (Closes: #248614)
90 - New Slovak translation from Peter Mann <Peter.Mann@tuke.sk> (Closes: #251676)
91 - Czech update from Miroslav Kure <kurem@upcase.inf.upol.cz> (Closes: #251682)
92 - pt_BR update from Andre Luis Lopes <andrelop@debian.org> (Closes: #251961)
93 - German translation of apt(8) from Helge Kreutzmann <kreutzm@itp.uni-hannover.de>
95 - pt update from Miguel Figueiredo <elmig@debianpt.org> (Closes: #252700)
96 - New Hebrew translation from Lior Kaplan <webmaster@guides.co.il>
98 - New Basque translation from Piarres Beobide Egaña <pi@beobide.net>
99 (Vasco - Euskara - difficult language, Closes: #254407) and already a
100 correction (Closes: #255760)
101 - Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation from
102 Guilherme de S. Pastore <gpastore@colband.com.br> (Closes: #256396)
103 - Updated Greek translation (complete now) from
104 George Papamichelakis <george@step.gr> (Closes: #256797)
105 - New Korean translation from Changwoo Ryu <cwryu@debian.org>
107 - German translation now available in two flavours: with Unicode usage and
108 without (related to #228486, #235759)
109 * Update apt-get(8) to reflect the fact that APT::Get::Only-Source will
110 affect apt-get build-dep as well as apt-get source
111 * Remove aborted remnants of a different method of implementing DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS
113 * Fix typo in error message when encountering unknown type in source list
115 * Update k*bsd-gnu arch names in buildlib/ostable (Closes: #253532)
116 * Add amd64 to buildlib/archtable (Closes: #240896)
117 * Have configure output a more useful error message if the architecture
120 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 8 Jul 2004 15:53:28 -0700
122 apt (0.5.25) unstable; urgency=low
124 * Patch from Jason Gunthorpe to remove arbitrary length limit on Binary
125 field in SourcesWriter::DoPackage
126 * Fix typo in apt-cache(8) (Closes: #238578)
127 * Fix obsolete reference to bug(1) in stub apt(8) man page
129 * Fix typo in configure-index (RecruseDepends -> RecurseDepends)
131 * Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt in debian/rules
133 * Increase length of line buffer in ReadConfigFile to 1024 chars;
134 detect if a line is longer than that and error out
136 * Suppress a signed/unsigned warning in apt-cache.cc:DisplayRecord
137 * Build apt-ftparchive with libdb4.2 rather than libdb2
138 - Patch from Clint Adams to do most of the work
139 - Build-Depends: s/libdb2-dev/libdb4.2-dev/
140 - Add AC_PREREQ(2.50) to configure.in
141 - Use db_strerror(err) rather than GlobalError::Errno (which uses strerror)
142 - Add note to NEWS.Debian about upgrading old databases
143 * Attempt to fix problems with chunked encoding by stripping only a single CR
145 * Modify debian/rules cvs-build to use cvs export, to avoid picking up
146 junk files from the working directory
147 * Add lang=fr attribute to refentry section of
148 apt-extracttemplates.fr.1.sgml and apt-sortpkgs.fr.1.sgml so they are
150 * Remove extraneous '\' characters from <command> tags in
151 apt_preferences.fr.5.sgml
152 * Translation updates:
153 - Updated Swedish translation from Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
155 - New Slovenian translation from Jure Čuhalev <gandalf@owca.info>
157 - New Portuguese translation from Miguel Figueiredo <elmig@debianpt.org>
159 - Updated Spanish translation from Ruben Porras <nahoo82@telefonica.net>
160 - Updated Spanish translation of man pages from Ruben Porras
161 <nahoo82@telefonica.net>
162 - Updated Simplified Chinese translation from "Carlos Z.F. Liu" <carlos_liu@yahoo.com>
164 - Updated Russian translation from Dmitry Astapov <adept@despammed.com>
166 - Updated Polish translation from Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>
168 - Updated Czech translation from Miroslav Kure <kurem@upcase.inf.upol.cz>
170 - Updated Japanese translation from Kenshi Muto <kmuto@debian.org>
172 - Run make -C po update-po to update .po files
173 - Updated French translation from Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>
175 - Updated Danish translation from Claus Hindsgaul <claus_h@image.dk>
178 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 8 May 2004 12:52:20 -0700
180 apt (0.5.24) unstable; urgency=low
182 * Updated Czech translation from Miroslav Kure <kurem@upcase.inf.upol.cz>
184 * Updated French translation from Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>
186 * Updates to XML man pages from richard.bos@xs4all.nl
187 * Updated Danish translation from Claus Hindsgaul <claus_h@image.dk>
189 * Updated Greek translation from Konstantinos Margaritis
192 * Updated Spanish translation from Ruben Porras <nahoo82@telefonica.net>
194 * Updated pt_BR translation from Andre Luis Lopes <andrelop@debian.org>
196 * Regenerate .pot file (Closes: #237892)
197 * Updated Polish translation from Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>
199 * In pkgAcquire::Shutdown(), set the status of fetching items to
200 StatError to avoid a sometimes large batch of error messages
202 * Implement an ugly workaround for the 10000-character limit on the
203 Binaries field in debSrcRecordParser, until such time as some things
204 can be converted over to use STL data types (ABI change) (Closes: #236688)
205 * Increase default tagfile buffer from 32k to 128k; this arbitrary limit
206 should also be removed someday (Closes: #174945)
207 * Checked against Standards-Version 3.6.1 (no changes)
209 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:47:55 -0800
211 apt (0.5.23) unstable; urgency=low
213 * Cosmetic updates to XML man pages from Richard Bos <radoeka@xs4all.nl>
214 * Use the 'binary' target rather than 'all' so that the ssh and bzip2
215 symlinks are created correctly (thanks to Adam Heath)
217 * Updated Simplified Chinese translation of message catalog from Tchaikov
218 <chaisave@263.net> (Closes: #234186)
219 * Change default for Acquire::http::max-age to 0 to prevent index files
220 being out of sync with each other (important with Release.gpg)
221 * Add an assert() to make sure that we don't overflow a fixed-size
222 buffer in the very unlikely event that someone adds 10 packaging
223 systems to apt (Closes: #233678)
224 * Fix whitespace in French translation of "Yes, do as I say!", which
225 made it tricky to type, again. Thanks to Sylvain Pasche
226 <sylvain.pasche@switzerland.org> (Closes: #234494)
227 * Print a slightly clearer error message if no packaging systems are
228 available (Closes: #233681)
229 * Point to Build-Depends in COMPILING (Closes: #233669)
230 * Make debian/rules a bit more consistent in a few places.
231 Specifically, always use -p$@ rather than an explicit package name,
232 and always specify it first, and use dh_shlibdeps -l uniformly rather
233 than sometimes changing LD_LIBRARY_PATH directly
234 * Document unit for Cache-Limit (bytes) (Closes: #234737)
235 * Don't translate "Yes, do as I say!" in Chinese locales, because it can
236 be difficult to input (Closes: #234886)
238 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:08:14 -0800
240 apt (0.5.22) unstable; urgency=low
242 * Updated French translation of man pages from Philippe Batailler
243 <philippe.batailler@free.fr> (Closes: #203119)
244 * Initialize StatusFile in debSystem (Closes: #229791)
245 * Fix apt-get's suggests/recommends printing, which was skipping every
246 other dependency due to both using GlobOr and incrementing the DepIterator
248 * Restore SIGINT/SIGQUIT handlers to their old values (rather than
249 SIG_DFL) after invoking dpkg (Closes: #229854)
250 * Updated Dutch translation of message catalog from cobaco
251 <cobaco@linux.be> (Closes: #229601)
252 * Catalan translation from Antoni Bella, Matt Bonner and Jordi Mallach
254 * Simplified Chinese translation of message catalog from "Carlos
255 Z.F. Liu" <carlos_liu@yahoo.com> (Closes: #230960)
256 * Replace SGML manpages with XML man pages from richard.bos@xs4all.nl
258 * Updated Spanish translation of man pages from Ruben Porras
259 <nahoo82@telefonica.net> (Closes: #231539)
260 * New Czech translation of message catalog from Miroslav Kure
261 <kurem@upcase.inf.upol.cz> (Closes: #231921)
263 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:44:54 -0800
265 apt (0.5.21) unstable; urgency=low
267 * Patch from Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> to include apt18n.h after
268 other headers to avoid breaking locale.h when setlocale() is defined
269 as an empty macro. This was not a problem on Debian, but broke
270 compilation on Solaris. (Closes: #226509)
271 * Updated French translation from Pierre Machard <pmachard@debian.org>
273 * Add colons to apt-get's "kept back"/"upgraded"/"downgraded" messages
275 * Fix typo in apt-cache(8) (Closes: #226351)
276 * Clearer error message in place of "...has no available version, but
277 exists in the database" (Closes: #212203)
278 * Patch from Oliver Kurth <oku@masqmail.cx> to use AC_CACHE_VAL for
279 GLIBC_VER to make cross-compilation easier (Closes: #221528)
280 * Add example preferences file (Closes: #220799)
281 * Updated Greek translation from Konstantinos Margaritis <markos@debian.org>
283 * Updated Spanish translation of man pages from Ruben Porras
284 <nahoo82@telefonica.net> (Closes: #227729)
286 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:54:39 -0800
288 apt (0.5.20) unstable; urgency=low
290 * Fixed German translations of "Suggested" from Christian Garbs
291 <debian@cgarbs.de> (Closes: #197960)
292 * Add an "apt-cache madison" command with an output format similar to
293 the katie tool of the same name (but less functionality)
294 * Fix debSourcesIndex::Describe() to correctly say "Sources" rather than
297 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 2004 23:42:50 -0800
299 apt (0.5.19) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Fix Packages::Extensions support in apt-ftparchive generate
304 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 2004 16:20:31 -0800
306 apt (0.5.18) unstable; urgency=low
308 * New no_NO.po file from Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org> to fix
309 encoding problems (Closes: #225602)
310 * Have "apt-ftparchive release" strip the leading path component from
313 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jan 2004 11:24:35 -0800
315 apt (0.5.17) unstable; urgency=low
317 * Enable apt-ftparchive to generate Release files. Hopefully this will
318 make it easier for folks to secure their apt-able packages
320 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 26 Dec 2003 12:53:21 -0800
322 apt (0.5.16) unstable; urgency=low
324 * po/de.po update from Michael Karcher <karcher@physik.fu-berlin.de>
326 * Update config.guess and config.sub from autotools-dev 20031007.1
327 * Add knetbsd to buildlib/ostable (Closes: #212344)
328 * Don't suggest apt-get -f install to correct broken build-deps; broken
329 installed packages are rarely the cause (Closes: #220858)
330 * Avoid clobbering configure.in if sed fails
332 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Wed, 24 Dec 2003 14:54:40 -0800
334 apt (0.5.15) unstable; urgency=low
336 * Spanish man pages, patch from Ruben Porras <nahoo82@telefonica.net>
338 - apt.es.8 wasn't included in the patch, but was referenced. Fetched
339 version 1.3 from debian-doc cvs
340 - Create doc/es/.cvsignore
341 * Patch from Koblinger Egmont <egmont@uhulinux.hu> to fix
342 pkgCache::PkgFileIterator::Label() to correctly refer to File->Label
343 rather than File->Origin (Closes: #213311)
344 * Add missing comma and space to German translation of "downgraded"
346 * Add missing comma in apt_preferences(5) (Closes: #215362)
347 * Fix whitespace in French translation of "Yes, do as I say!", which
348 made it tricky to type. Thanks to Sylvain Pasche
349 <sylvain.pasche@switzerland.org> (Closes: #217152)
350 * Let apt-get build-dep try alternatives if the installed package
351 doesn't meet version requirements (Closes: #214736)
352 * Fix version display for recommends (Closes: #219900)
353 * Use isatty rather than ttyname for checking if stdin is a terminal.
354 isatty has the advantage of not requiring /proc under Linux, and thus
356 * Correctly implement -n as a synonym for --names-only (Closes: #224515)
357 * Update apt-cache(8)
358 - Document --installed
359 - --recursive applies to both depends and rdepends
360 * Japanese translation of documentation from Kurasawa Nozomu <nabetaro@slug.jp>
362 * Clarify documentation of --no-upgrade in apt-get(8) (Closes: #219743)
363 * Clean up and simplify some of the suggests/recommends display in apt-get
364 * Use cvs update -d in debian/rules cvs-build rather than just update
365 * Pass --preserve-envvar PATH --preserve-envvar CCACHE_DIR to debuild. apt
366 takes a long time to build, and ccache helps
368 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 20 Dec 2003 16:34:30 -0800
370 apt (0.5.14) unstable; urgency=low
372 * apt-get build-dep, when trying to skip over the remaining elements of
373 an or-expression, would accidentally inherit the version requirements of a
374 later item in the or-expression. Fixed it.
375 * Let apt-get build-dep try alternatives if the first dependency in an
376 or-expression is not available
377 * Add a Debug::BuildDeps to generate some trace output
378 * Help apt-get build-dep produce more useful error messages
379 * Process build-dependencies in forward rather than reverse order
380 * Error out if an installed package is too new for a << or <=
382 * apt-get build-dep should now be able to handle almost any package with
383 correct build-depends. The primary exception is build-dependencies on
384 virtual packages with more than one provider, and these are
385 discouraged for automated processing (but still common,
388 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:57:31 -0400
390 apt (0.5.13) unstable; urgency=medium
392 * Document configuration file comment syntax in apt.conf(5)
394 * s/removed/installed/ in a comment in apt-get.cc
395 * Move comment for ListParser::ParseDepends into the right place
396 * Don't preserve ownership when copying config.guess and config.sub.
397 This broke builds where the clean target was run with different
398 privileges than the rest of the build (i.e., root) (Closes: #212183)
399 * On second thought, don't copy config.guess and config.sub at all. I'd
400 rather they always match what is in CVS.
402 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 2003 10:28:17 -0400
404 apt (0.5.12) unstable; urgency=low
406 * Exclude subdirectories named 'debian-installer' from the apt-cdrom
407 search (Closes: #210485 -- release-critical)
409 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:48:14 -0400
411 apt (0.5.11) unstable; urgency=low
413 * Updated pt_BR translations from Andre Luis Lopes <andrelop@debian.org>
415 * In apt.conf(5), give the fully qualified name of Dir::Bin::Methods,
416 rather than just "methods"
417 * Add new nb and nn translations from Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
418 * Clean up reportbug script a bit, and extend it to distinguish between a
419 configuration file not existing and the user declining to submit it with
421 * Add #include <langinfo.h> to cmdline/apt-get.cc. This apparently gets
422 pulled in by something else with recent g++ and/or glibc, but is
423 required when building on, e.g., stable
424 * Patch from Koblinger Egmont <egmont@uhulinux.hu> to fix version
425 comparisons with '~' (Closes: #205960)
426 * Disable Russian translation until someone can review it
429 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:41:28 -0400
431 apt (0.5.10) unstable; urgency=low
433 * Correct the section in apt_preferences(5) on interpreting priorities
434 to show that zero is not a valid priority, and print a warning if such
435 a pin is encountered in the preferences file (Closes: #204971)
436 * Regenerate French man pages from sgml source (Closes: #205886)
437 * Get self-tests compiling again, updated for latest library API
439 * Add version comparison tests for #194327 and #205960
440 * Fix error message in version test to output versions in the order in
441 which they were compared when the reverse comparison fails
442 * Reference the source package bug page rather than the one for the
443 binary package 'apt' in the man pages (Closes: #205290)
444 * Updated Polish po file from Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>
446 * Mention some of the available frontends in apt-get(8) (Closes: #205829)
447 * Add apt-config to SEE ALSO section of apt-get (Closes: #205036)
448 * Add missing "lang" attributes to refentry tags in French man pages
449 (apt-cdrom, apt-extracttemplates, apt-sortpkgs)
450 * Change upgraded/newly installed/not fully installed or removed
451 messages to be consistent and somewhat shorter (some translations
452 exceeded 80 characters even in the simplest case)
453 * Make APT::Get::Show-Upgraded (aka apt-get -u) default to true.
454 * Updates to Dutch translation from Bart Cornelis <cobaco@linux.be>
457 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 31 Aug 2003 21:12:39 -0400
459 apt (0.5.9) unstable; urgency=low
461 * Oh well, apt isn't going to make it into testing anytime soon due to
462 new glibc and gcc deps, so we might as well fix more bugs
463 * Fix typo in example ftp-archive.conf (Closes: #203295)
464 * Mention default setting for --all-versions (Closes: #203298)
465 * Patch from Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> to have --version
466 only print the version (and not usage as well) (Closes: #203418)
467 * Patch from Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> to switch from
468 dh_installmanpages to dh_installman. Fixes the problem where the
469 pt_BR man page was installed in the wrong location (Closes: #194558)
470 * Move the French apt-ftparchive man page into apt-utils where it
471 belongs. apt-utils Replaces: apt (<< 0.5.9)
472 * Write records from "apt-cache show" using fwrite(3) rather than
473 write(2), in case for some reason the entire record doesn't get
474 written by a single write(2)
475 * Add new French man pages to doc/fr/.cvsignore
476 * Add freebsd to buildlib/ostable (Closes: #193430)
477 * Avoid segfault if a package name is specified which consists
478 entirely of characters which look like end tags ('+', '-')
480 * Patch from Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> to avoid listing
481 suggests/recommends for packages which are selected for installation
482 at the same time as the package which suggests/recommends them
484 * Patch from Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> to avoid listing
485 suggests/recommends which are Provided by a package which is already
486 installed (Closes: #200395)
487 * Patch to update pt_BR man page for apt_preferences(5) from Andre Luis
488 Lopes <andrelop@debian.org> (Closes: #202245)
489 * Use nl_langinfo(YESEXPR) rather than comparing to the translated
490 string "Y". Closes: #200953 and should make the prompting generally
491 more robust in the face of i18n. In the particular case of #200953,
492 it was being fooled because of signedness issues with toupper(3)
494 * apt Suggests: aptitude | synaptic | gnome-apt | wajig
496 * Clean up whitespace in translated strings in ru.po, which messed up
497 indentation (some other translations probably have similar problems)
499 * Run ispell -h over the man page sources and fix a bunch of typos
500 * Use debian/compat rather than DH_COMPAT
501 * Update to debhelper compatibility level 3
502 - remove ldconfig calls from debian/{postinst,postrm} as dh_makeshlibs
504 - echo 3 > debian/compat
505 - Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 3)
506 * Exclude '.#*' from cvs-build
507 * Let the ftp method work with ftp servers which do not require a
508 password (Closes: #199425)
509 * Build-depend on debhelper >= 4.1.62, because we need the fix for
510 #204731 in order for dh_installman to work correctly
511 with our SGML man pages
512 * Move dh_makeshlibs ahead of dh_installdeb so that its postinst
513 fragments are properly substituted
515 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 10 Aug 2003 19:54:39 -0400
517 apt (0.5.8) unstable; urgency=medium
519 * urgency=medium because the changes since 0.5.5.1 are pretty safe as
520 far as core functionality, 0.5.5.1 survived unstable for 10 days, and
521 I don't want to delay apt's progress into testing any further. It's
522 decidedly better than 0.5.4.
523 * Clarify the meaning of the only-source option in apt-get(8)
525 * Updated French man pages from Philippe Batailler
526 <philippe.batailler@free.fr> (Closes: #182194)
527 * Give a warning if an illegal type abbreviation is used when looking up a
528 configuration item (Closes: #168453)
529 * Improve build-depends handling of virtual packages even further, so that
530 it will now also try to satisfy build-depends on virtual packages if they
531 are not installed. Note that this only works if there is only one
532 package providing the virtual package, as in other cases (Closes: #165404)
533 * Update config.guess and config.sub from autotools-dev 20030717.1
534 * Tweak SGML in apt-extracttemplates.1.sgml so that literal '>' doesn't end
536 * Document SrcDirectory in apt-ftparchive.1.sgml (Closes: #156370)
537 * Support TMPDIR in apt-extracttemplates (Closes: #191656)
538 * Fix ru.po to use a capital letter for the translation of 'Y' so that
539 YnPrompt works correctly (Closes: #200953). No other translations seem
541 * Regenerate POT file and sync .po files
542 * Only try to clear stdin if it is a tty, to avoid looping if there is
543 lots of stuff (perhaps an infinite amount) to read (Closes: #192228)
545 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:21:53 -0400
547 apt (0.5.7) unstable; urgency=low
549 * Update control file to match overrides (apt priority important,
550 libapt-pkg-dev section libdevel)
551 * Silence the essential packages check if we are only downloading
552 archives and not changing the system (Closes: #190862)
553 * Skip version check if a build-dependency is provided by an installed package
555 * Have apt-cache show exit with an error if it cannot find any of the
556 specified packages (Closes: #101490)
558 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Mon, 21 Jul 2003 23:43:24 -0400
560 apt (0.5.6) unstable; urgency=low
562 * Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
563 - Fix segfault when handling /etc/apt/preferences. Closes: #192409.
564 * Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
565 - Clean up some string handling, patch from Peter Lundkvist
566 <p.lundkvist@telia.com> (Closes: #192225)
567 - Don't fall off the end of the buffer when comparing versions.
568 Patch from Koblinger Egmont <egmont@uhulinux.hu> (Closes: #194327)
569 - Minor fixes to apt-ftparchive(1) (Closes: #118156)
570 - Fix typo in apt-ftparchive help text (Closes: #119072)
571 - More typos in apt-ftparchive help text (Closes: #190936)
572 - Update config.guess, config.sub to latest versions
573 - Modify the description for apt-utils to reflect the fact that it is not
574 (any longer) infrequently used (Closes: #138045)
575 - Make setup script for dselect method more explicit about
576 overwriting sources.list (Closes: #151727)
577 - Fix typo in apt-cache(8) (Closes: #161243)
578 - Remove duplicate 'showpkg' from synopsis on apt-cache(8)
580 - Document in apt-get(8) the meaning of the '*' in ShowList, which is that
581 the package is being purged (Closes: #182369)
582 - Fix extra "/" character in apt.conf(5) (Closes: #185545)
583 - Fix typo in tar error message (Closes: #191424)
584 - Clarify description of 'search' on apt-cache(8) (Closes: #192216)
585 - Fix incorrect path for 'partial' directory on apt-get(8)
587 - Fixes to pt_BR translation from Andre Luis Lopes <andrelop@ig.com.br>
589 - Updated apt_preferences(5) man page with many corrections and
590 clarifications from Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>
592 - Fix SGML validation errors in apt-cache.8.sgml introduced in 0.5.5 or so
593 - Add a simple example to apt-ftparchive(1) (Closes: #95257)
594 - Add bug script for collecting configuration info (Closes: #176482)
596 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Mon, 21 Jul 2003 01:59:43 -0400
598 apt (0.5.5.1) unstable; urgency=low
600 * Move the target of the example docs from doc to binary. Closes:
602 * Fix api breakage that broke apt-ftparchive and apt-cache dumpavail, by
603 backing out change that incorretly attempted to handle Package sections
604 larger than 32k. Closes: #192373
605 * Fix never-ending loop with apt-get install -V. Closes: #192355.
607 -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2003 12:30:16 -0500
609 apt (0.5.5) unstable; urgency=low
611 * New deb version compare function, that has no integer limits, and
612 supports pre-versions using ~. Code ported from dpkg.
613 * Fix handling of [!arch] for build-dependencies. Closes: #88798, #149595
614 * Fix handling of build-deps on unknown packages. Closes: #88664, #153307
615 * "apt-get --arch-only build-dep" to install only architecture-
616 dependent build dependencies. Bump minor shared lib number to reflect
617 small change in BuildDepend API.
618 * APT::Build-Essential configuration option (defaults to "build-essential")
619 so that "apt-get build-dep" will ensure build essential packages are
620 installed prior to installing other build-dependencies. Closes: #148879
621 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH thing. Closes: #109430, #147529
622 * /usr/doc reference in postinst. Closes: #126189
623 * Doc updates. Closes: #120689
624 * Possible apt-cache segfault. Closes: #120311, #118431, #117915, #135295,
626 * Print special message for EAI_AGAIN. Closes: #131397
627 * libapt-pkg-dev needs to bring in the apt-inst library if linking
628 is to work. Closes: #133943
629 * Typos, Doc Stuff. Closes: #132772, #129970, #123642, #114892, #113786,
630 #109591, #105920, #103678, #139752, #138186, #138054, #138050,
631 #139994, #142955, #151654, #151834, #147611, #154268, #173971
632 * Fix possibility for tag file parsing to fail in some unlikely situations.
634 * Use std C++ names for some header files. Closes: #128741
635 * Do not check for free space if --no-download. Closes: #117856
636 * Actually implement or group handling for 'upgrade'. Closes: #133950
637 * "Internal Error, Couldn't configure pre-depend" is not actually an
638 internal error, it is a packaging error and now it says so, and
639 pinpoints the problem dependency. Closes: #155621
640 * Allows failure to write to a pipe for post-invoke stuff. Closes: #89830
641 * Use usr/share/doc for dhelp. Closes: #115701
642 * --print-uris works with 'update'. Closes: #57070
643 * Options Dpkg::MaxArgs,Dpkg::MaxArgBytes to allow a much longer dpkg
645 * Fixed 2 little OR group bugs, thanks to Yann Dirson. Closes: #143995,
647 * Allow an uninstalled package to be marked for removal on an install
648 line (meaning not to automatically install it), also fix some dodgy
649 handling of protected packages. Closes: #92287, #116011
650 * Fix errant prefix matching in version selection. Closes: #105968
651 * Ensure that all files needed to run APT as a user are readable and
652 ignore roots umask for these files. Closes: #108801
653 * Support larger config spaces. Closes: #111914
654 * 'apt-get update' no longer does 'Building Dependency Tree'.
655 * When matching regexs allways print a message. Change regex activation
656 charset. Closes: #147817
657 * Don't die if lines in sources.list are too long. Closes: #146846
658 * Show file name on apt-extracttemplate error messges. Closes: #151835
659 * i18n gettext stuff, based on work from Michael Piefel: Closes: #95933
660 * Some highly unlikely memory faults. Closes: #155842
661 * C++ stuff for G++3.2. Closes: #162617, #165515,
662 * apt-config dumps sends to stdout not stderr now. Closes: #146294
663 * Fix segfault in FindAny when /i is used, and there is no default.
665 * Add s390x to archtable. Closese: #160992.
666 * Update config.sub/config.guess in cvs, and add support to debian/rules
667 to update them from /usr/share/misc if they exist. Closes: #155014
668 * Remove 'Sorry' from messages. Closes: #148824.
669 * Change wording of 'additional disk space usage' message. Closes:
671 * apt-extracttemplates now prepends the package name when extracting
672 files. Closes: #132776
673 * Add -n synonym for --names-only for apt-cache. Closes: #130689
674 * Display both current version and new version in apt-get -s. Closes:
676 * Add an options and timeout config item to ssh/rsh. Closes: #90654
677 * libapt-pkg-dev now depends on apt-utils. Closes: #133942.
678 * Change verbose logging output of apt-ftparchive to go to stderr,
679 instead of stdout. Also, errors that occur no longer go to stdout,
680 but stderr. Closes: #161592
681 * Test for timegm in configure. Closes: #165516.
682 * s/st_mtime/mtime/ on our local stat structure in apt-ftparchive, to
683 support compliation on platforms where st_mtime is a macro. Closes:
685 * Check the currently mounted cdrom, to see if it's the one we are
686 interested in. Closes: #154602
687 * Refer to reportbug instead of bug in the man pages. Closes: #173745
688 * Link apt-inst to apt-pkg. Closes: #175055
689 * New apt_preferences man page from Thomas Hood, Susan Kleinmann,
691 * Fix > 300 col screen segfault. Closes: #176052
692 * Rebuild with gcc-3.2. Closes: #177752, #178008.
693 * Fix build-dep handling of | dependencies.
694 Closes: #98640, #145997, #158896, #172901
695 * Double default value of APT::Cache-Limit, until such time as it
696 can be made more dynamic. Closes: #178623.
697 * Report uris with '.gz' when there are errors. Closes: #178435.
698 * When installing build-deps, make sure the new version will
699 satisfy build requirements. Closes: #178121
700 * Split offline and guide documentation into apt-doc. This was done so
701 that binary-arch builds do not require documention deps. Note, that
702 apt-doc is not installed on upgrades.
703 * Use doc-base, instead of dhelp directly. Closes: #110389
704 * Change http message 'Waiting for file' to 'Waiting for headers'.
706 * Remove trailing lines on package lists in apt-get. Closes: #178736.
707 * Fix origin pins for file:// uris. Closes: #189014.
708 * Apply typo and syntax patch from bug to apt-cache.8.sgml. Closes:
710 * s/dpkg-preconfig/dpkg-preconfigure/ in examples/configure-index.
712 * Fix some typos in the apt-get manual. Closes: #163932.
713 * Apply patch from bug, to change frozen to testing, and then do it
714 everywhere else. Closes: #165085.
715 * Update es.po. Closes: #183111.
716 * Add pt_BR translation of apt_preferences(5). Also, build fr manpages.
718 * Add a vcg command to apt-cache, similiar to dotty. Closes: #150512.
719 * Add option to apt-get to show versions of packages being
721 * Be quiet in apt.post{inst,rm}. Closes: #70685.
722 * apt-get now prints out suggested and recommended packages. Closes:
724 * Insert some newlines in the cdrom change media message. Closes:
726 * Add a rdepends command to apt-cache. Closes: #159864.
727 * When building the dpkg command line, allow for 8192 chars to be used,
728 instead of only 1024.
729 * APT::Immediate-Configure had inverted semantics(false meant it was
730 enabled). Closes: #173619.
731 * Fix status file parser so that if a record is larger than 32k, the
732 buffer size will be doubled, and the read attempted again. Closes:
735 -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Sun, 27 Apr 2003 01:23:12 -0500
737 apt (0.5.4) unstable; urgency=low
739 * M68k config.guess patch. Closes: #88913
740 * Bi-yearly test on OpenBSD and Solaris
741 * Doc updates. Closes: #89121, #89854, #99671, #98353, #95823, #93057,
742 #97520, #102867, #101071, #102421, #101565, #98272, #106914,
744 * Various cosmetic code updates. Closes: #89066, #89066, #89152
745 * Add "pre-auto" as an option for DSelect::Clean (run autoclean after
747 * More patches from Alfredo for Vendors and more SHA-1 stuff
748 * Fix for AJ's 'desire to remove perl-5.005' and possibly other
749 similar situations. Closes: #56708, #59432
750 * no_proxy and ftp. Closes: #89671
751 * Philippe Batailler's man page patches.
752 * Fix for display bug. Closes: #92033, #93652, #98468
753 * Use more than 16bits for the dep ID. Some people ran out..
754 Closes: #103020, #97809, #102951, #99974, #107362, #107395, #107362,
755 #106911, #107395, #108968
756 * Reordered some things to make dante and FTP happier. Closes: #92757
757 * James R. Van Zandt's guide.sgml updates. Closes: #90027
758 * apt-ftparchive copes with no uncompressed package files + contents.
759 * French man pages from philippe batailler - well sort of. They
761 * run-parts. Closes: #94286
762 * 'apt-cache policy' preferences debug tool.
763 * Whatever. Closes: #89762
764 * libstdc++ and HURD. Closes: #92025
765 * More apt-utils verbage. Closes: #86954
766 * Fliped comparision operator. Closes: #94618
767 * Used the right copyright file. Closes: #65691
768 * Randolph's G++3 patches.
769 * Fixed no_proxy tokanizing. Closes: #100046
770 * Strip Config-Version when copying status to available. Closes: #97520
771 * Segfault with missing source files. Closes: #100325
772 * EINTR check. Closes: #102293
773 * Various changes to the locking metholodgy for --print-uris.
775 * Lame LD_LIBRARY_PATH thing. Closes: #98928
776 * apt-cache search searchs provide names too now. Closes: #98695
777 * Checksum and long lines problem. Closes: #106591
778 * .aptignr and empty files are just a warning. Closes: #97364
780 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Sat, 18 Aug 2001 17:21:59 -0500
782 apt (0.5.3) unstable; urgency=low
784 * JoeyH's dpkg::preconfig not working. Closes: #88675
785 * Fixed apt override disparity
786 * Alfredo's SHA-1 and related patches
788 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:39:43 -0700
790 apt (0.5.2) unstable; urgency=low
792 * Fixed mention of /usr/doc in the long description
793 * JoeyH's downgrade bug -- don't use 0.5.1
794 * Doc bug. Closes: #88538
795 * Fault in building release strings. Closes: #88533
797 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:39:43 -0700
799 apt (0.5.1) unstable; urgency=low
801 * Fixed #82894 again, or should be and.
802 * Process the option string right. Closes: #86921
803 * Don't eat the last command for pipes. Closes: #86923
804 * Ignore .* for configuration directory processing. Closes: #86923
805 * Alfredo's no_proxy patch
806 * Documentation fixes. Closes: #87091
807 * JoeyH's double slash bug. Closes: #87266
808 * Unintitialized buffer and apt-ftparchive contents generation.
810 * Build-deps on virtual packages. Closes: #87639
811 * Fixes glibc/libstdc++ symbol dependencies by including glibc and
812 libstdc++ version info in the library soname and in the package
813 provides. Closes: #87426
814 * Updated soname version to 0.3.2
815 * apt-extracttemplates moved from debconf into apt-utils
816 * s390 archtable entry. Closes: #88232
818 * Some instances where the status file can source a package in a
819 non-sensical way. Closes: #87390
820 * Work better if there are duplicate sources.list entries.
821 * Fixed the resetting of Dir with "dir {};". Closes: #87323
823 -- Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org> Sat, 3 Mar 2001 15:37:38 -0700
825 apt (0.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
827 * Fixed an obscure bug with missing final double new lines in
829 * Changed the apt-cdrom index copy routine to use the new section
831 * Added a package file sorter, apt-sortpkgs
832 * Parse obsolete Optional dependencies.
833 * Added Ben's rsh method. Closes: #57794
834 * Added IPv6 FTP support and better DNS rotation support.
835 * Include the server IP in error messages when using a DNS rotation.
837 * Made most of the byte counters into doubles to prevent 32bit overflow.
839 * HTTP Authorization. Closes: #61158
840 * Ability to parse and return source index build depends from Randolph.
841 * new 'apt-get build-dep' command from Randolph. Closes: #63982
842 * Added apt-ftparchive the all dancing all singing FTP archive
844 * Allow version specifications with =1.2.4-3 and /2.2 or /stable postfixes
846 * Removed useless internal cruft including the xstatus file.
847 * Fixed config parser bugs. Closes: #67848, #71108
848 * Brain Damanged apt-get config options changed, does not change the command
849 line interface, except to allow --enable-* to undo a configuration
852 No-Download -> Download
853 No-Upgrade -> Upgrade
854 * Made this fix configable (DSelect::CheckDir) and default to disabled:
855 * No remove prompt if the archives dir has not changed. Closes: #55709
856 Because it is stupid in the case where no files were downloaded due to
857 a resumed-aborted install, or a full cache! Closes: #65952
858 * Obscure divide by zero problem. Closes: #64394
859 * Update sizetable for mips. Closes: #62288
860 * Fixed a bug with passive FTP connections
861 * Has sizetable entry for sparc64. Closes: #64869
862 * Escape special characters in the ::Label section of the cdroms.lst
863 * Created apt-utils and python-apt packages
864 * Due to the new policy engine, the available file may contain entries
865 from the status file. These are generated if the package is not obsolete
866 but the policy engine prohibits using the version from the package files.
867 They can be identified by the lack of a Filename field.
868 * The new policy engine. Closes: #66509, #66944, #45122, #45094, #40006,
869 #36223, #33468, #22551
870 * Fixed deb-src line for non-us. Closes: #71501, #71601
871 * Fixes for G++ 2.96, s/friend/friend class/
872 * Fixed mis doc of APT::Get::Fix-Missing. Closes: #69269
873 * Confirmed fix for missing new line problem. Closes: #69386
874 * Fixed up dhelp files. Closes: #71312
875 * Added some notes about dselect and offline usage. Closes: #66473, #38316
876 * Lock files on read only file systems are ignored w/ warning.
878 * apt-get update foo now gives an error! Closes: #42891
879 * Added test for shlibs on hurd. Closes: #71499
880 * Clarified apt-cache document. Closes: #71934
881 * DocBook SGML man pages and some improvements in the text..
882 * sigwinch thing. Closes: #72382
883 * Caching can be turned off by setting the cache file names blank.
884 * Ignores arches it does not know about when autocleaning. Closes: #72862
885 * New function in apt-config to return dirs, files, bools and integers.
886 * Fixed an odd litle bug in MarkInstall and fixed it up to handle
887 complex cases involving OR groups and provides.
888 68754 describes confusing messages which are the result of this..
889 Closes: #63149, #69394, #68754, #77683, #66806, #81486, #78712
890 * Speeling mistake and return code for the 'wicked' resolver error
891 Closes: #72621, #75226, #77464
892 * Solved unable to upgrade libc6 from potato to woody due to 3 package
893 libc6 dependency loop problem.
894 * Leading sources.list spaces. Closes: #76010
895 * Removed a possible infinite loop while processing installations.
896 * Man page updates. Closes: #75411, #75560, #64292, #78469
897 * ReduceSourceList bug. Closes: #76027
898 * --only-source option. Closes: #76320
899 * Typos. Closes: #77812, #77999
900 * Different status messages. Closes: #76652, #78353
901 * /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ directory for Joey and Matt and pipe protocol 2
902 * OS detection an support for the new pseduo standard of os-arch for the
903 Architecture string. Also uses regexing.. Closes: #39227, #72349
904 * Various i18n stuff. Note that this still needs some i18n wizard
905 to do the last gettextization right. Closes: #62386
906 * Fixed a problem with some odd http servers/proxies that did not return
907 the content size in the header. Closes: #79878, #44379
908 * Little acquire bugs. Closes: #77029, #55820
909 * _POSIX_THREADS may not be defined to anything, just defined..
911 * Spelling of Ignore-Hold correctly. Closes: #78042
912 * Unlock the dpkg db if in download only mode. Closes: #84851
913 * Brendan O'Dea's dselect admindir stuff. Closes: #62811
914 * Patch from BenC. Closes: #80810
915 * Single output of some names in lists. Closes: #80498, #43286
916 * Nice message for people who can't read syserror output. Closes: #84734
917 * OR search function. Closes: #82894
918 * User's guide updates. Closes: #82469
919 * The AJ/JoeyH var/state to var/lib transition patch. Closes: #59094
920 * Various CD bugs, again thanks to Greenbush
921 Closes: #80946, #76547, #71810, #70049, #69482
922 * Using potato debhelper. Closes: #57977
923 * I cannot self-terminate. Closes: #74928
925 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Wed, 21 Feb 2001 00:39:15 -0500
927 apt (0.3.19) frozen unstable; urgency=low
929 * Updates to apt-cdrom to support integrated non-us nicely, thanks to
931 * Fixed that apt-get/cdrom deadlock thing. Closes: #59853, #62945, #61976
932 * Fixed hardcoded path. Closes: #59743
933 * Fixed Jay's relative path bug
934 * Allowed source only CDs. Closes: #58952
935 * Space check is supressed if --print-uris is given. Closes: #58965
936 * Clarified the documenation examples for non-us. Closes: #58646
937 * Typo in the package description. Closes: #60230
938 * Man Page typo. Closes: #60347
939 * Typo in Algorithms.cc. Closes: #63577
940 * Evil dotty function in apt-cache for generating dependency graphs
941 with the as-yet-unpackaged GraphVis.
942 * Appears to have been fixed in Janurary.. Closes: #57981
943 * New config.guess/sub for the new archs. Closes: #60874
944 * Fixed error reporting for certain kinds of resolution failures.
946 * Made autoclean respect 'q' settings. Closes: #63023
947 * Fixed up the example sources.list. Closes: #63676
948 * Added DPkg::FlushSTDIN to control the flushing of stdin before
949 forking dpkg. Closes: #63991
951 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Fri, 12 May 2000 21:10:54 -0700
953 apt (0.3.18) frozen unstable; urgency=low
955 * Changes in the postinst script. Closes: #56855, #57237
956 * Fixed bashism. Closes: #57216, #57335
957 * Doc updates. Closes: #57772, #57069, #57331, #57833, #57896
959 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Sun, 13 Feb 2000 01:52:31 -0800
961 apt (0.3.17) unstable; urgency=low
963 * RFC 2732 usage for CDROM URIs and fixes to apt-cdrom
964 * Fixed the configuration parser to not blow up if ; is in the config
966 * Applied visual patch to dselect install script . Closes #55214
967 * Included the configure-index example
969 * Library soname has increased
970 * Fixed default sources.list to have correct URLs for potato when it
972 * Added a message about erasing sources.list to dselect setup script
974 * No remove prompt if the archives dir has not changed. Closes: #55709
975 * Fixed inclusion of 2nd sample config file. Closes: #55374
976 * Made file mtimes of 0 not confuse the methods If-Modifed-Since check.
979 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Mon, 31 Jan 2000 12:12:40 -0800
981 apt (0.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Made --no-download work. Closes: #52993
984 * Now compiles on OpenBSD, Solaris and HP-UX
985 * Clarify segfault errors
986 * More debhelper fixes. Closes: #52662, #54566, #52090, #53531, #54769
987 * Fix for Joel's discovery of glibc removal behavoir.
988 * Fix for Ben Collins file: uri from slink upgrade.
989 * Fixed resume code in FTP. Closes: #54323
990 * Take more precautions to prevent the corruption Joey Hess saw.
991 * Fixed --no-list-cleanup
992 * RFC 2732 URI parsing ([] for hostnames).
993 * Typo in apt-cache man page. Closes: #54949
995 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jan 2000 08:04:15 -0800
997 apt (0.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
999 * Added DSelect::WaitAfterDownload Closes: #49549
1000 * Fixed cast error in byteswap macro and supporting code. Closes: #50093
1001 * Fixed buffer overflow for wide terminal sizes. Closes: #50295
1002 * Made -s and clean not do anything. Closes: #50238
1003 * Problem with Protected packages and the new OR code.
1004 * /usr/share/doc stuff. Closes: #51017, #50228, #51141
1005 * Remove doesn't require a package to be installable. Closes: #51175
1006 * FTP proxy touch ups in the mabn page. Closes: #51315, #51314
1008 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Sat, 4 Dec 1999 21:17:24 -0800
1010 apt (0.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * Fix Perl or group pre-depends thing Closes: #46091, #46096, #46233, #45901
1013 * Fix handling of dpkg's conversions from < -> <= Closes: #46094, #47088
1014 * Make unparsable priorities non-fatal Closes: #46266, #46267, #46293, #46298
1015 * Fix handling of '/' for the dist name. Closes: #43830, #45640, #45692
1016 * Fixed 'Method gave a blank filename' error from IMS queries onto CDs.
1017 Closes: #45034, #45695, #46537
1018 * Made OR group handling in the problem resolver more elaborate. Closes: #45646
1019 * Added APT::Clean-Installed option. Closes: #45973
1020 * Moves the free space check to after the calculated size is printed.
1021 Closes: #46639, #47498
1022 * mipsel arch Closes: #47614
1023 * Beautified URI printing to not include passwords Closes: #46857
1024 * Fixed little problem with --no-download Closes: #47557
1025 * Tweaked Dselect 'update' script to re-gen the avail file even in the
1026 event of a failure Closes: #47112
1027 * Retries for source archives too Closes: #47529
1028 * Unmounts CDROMs iff it mounted them Closes: #45299
1029 * Checks for the partial directories before doing downloads Closes: #47392
1030 * no_proxy environment variable (http only!) Closes: #43476
1031 * apt-cache showsrc Closes: #45799
1032 * De-Refs Single Pure virtual packages. Closes: #42437, #43555
1033 * Regexs for install. Closes: #35304, #38835
1034 * Dependency reports now show OR group relations
1035 * Re-Install feature. Cloes: #46961, #37393, #38919
1036 * Locks archive directory on clean (woops)
1037 * Remove is not 'sticky'. Closes: #48392
1038 * Slightly more accurate 'can not find package' message. Closes: #48311
1039 * --trivial-only and --no-remove. Closes: #48518
1040 * Increased the cache size. Closes: #47648
1041 * Comment woopsie. Closes: #48789
1042 * Removes existing links when linking sources. Closes: #48775
1043 * Problem resolver does not install all virtual packages. Closes: #48591, #49252
1044 * Clearer usage message about 'source' Closes: #48858
1045 * Immediate configure internal error Closes: #49062, #48884
1047 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Sun, 7 Nov 1999 20:21:25 -0800
1049 apt (0.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * Fix timestamp miss in FTP. Closes: #44363
1052 * Fix sorting of Kept packages. Closes: #44377
1053 * Fix Segfault for dselect-upgrade. Closes: #44436
1054 * Fix handling of '/' for the dist name. Closes #43830
1055 * Added APT::Get::Diff-Only and Tar-Only options. Closes #44384
1056 * Add commented-out deb-src URI to default sources.list file.
1058 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Sun, 19 Sep 1999 18:54:20 -0700
1060 apt (0.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Fix for typo in the dhelp index. Closes: #40377
1063 * Multiple media swap support
1064 * Purge support. Closes: #33291, #40694
1065 * Better handling of - remove notation. Closes: #41024
1066 * Purge support. Closes: #33291, #40694
1067 * Error code on failed update. Closes: #41053
1068 * apt-cdrom adds entries for source directories. Closes: #41231
1069 * Sorts the output of any list. Closes: #41107
1070 * Fixes the looping problem. Closes: #41784, #42414, #44022
1071 * Fixes the CRC mechanism to lowercase all strings. Closes: #41839
1072 * More checks to keep the display sane. Particularly when fail-over is
1073 used with local mirrors and CD-Roms. Closes: #42127, #43130, #43668
1074 * PThread lockup problem on certain sparc/m68k. Closes: #40628
1075 * apt-cdrom understands .gz Package files too. Closes: #42779
1076 * Spelling error in dselect method description. Closes: #43251
1077 * Added security to the default source list. Closes: #43356
1079 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 09:04:28 -0700
1081 apt (0.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * Fix for mis-parsed file: URIs. Closes: #40373, #40366, #40230
1084 * Fix for properly upgrading the system from perl 5.004 to 5.005
1086 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:06:44 -0700
1088 apt (0.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Spelling error in cachefile.cc. Closes: #39885
1091 * Trailing slash in dselect install if you try to use the
1092 default config file. Closes: #40011
1093 * Simulate works for autoclean. Closes: #39141
1094 * Fixed spelling errors. Closes: #39673
1095 * Changed url parsing a bit. Closes: #40070, #40069
1096 * Version 0.3.8 will be for slink/hamm (GNU libc 2).
1098 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:02:52 -0700
1100 apt (0.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * Fixed missing text in the apt-get(8) page. Closes: #37596
1103 * Made --simulate and friends work with apt-get source. Closes: #37597, #37656
1104 * Fixed inclusion of man pages in the -doc/-dev package. Closes: #37633, #38651
1105 * Fixed handling of the -q option with not-entirely integer arguments
1107 * Man page typo Closes: #37762
1108 * Fixed parsing of the Source: line. Closes: #37679
1109 * Dpkg/dpkg-hurd source bug. Closes: #38004, #38032
1110 * Added a check for an empty cache directory. Closes: #37963
1111 * Return a failure code if -d is given and packages fail to download.
1113 * Arranged for an ftp proxy specifing an http server to work. See the
1114 important note in the sources.list man page.
1115 * Accounted for resumed files in the cps calculation. Closes: #36787
1116 * Deal with duplicate same version different packages. Closes: #30237
1117 * Added --no-download. Closes: #38095
1118 * Order of apt-cdrom dist detection. Closes: #38139
1119 * Fix apt-cdrom chop handling and missing lines. Closes: #37276
1121 * Suggests dpkg-dev for apt-get source. Closes: #38158
1122 * Fixed typo in apt-get help. Closes: #38712
1123 * Improved the error message in the case of broken held package. Closes: #38777
1124 * Fixed handling of MD5 failures
1125 * Documented list notation Closes: #39008
1126 * Change the 'b' to 'B'. Closes: #39007
1128 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jun 1999 18:36:20 -0700
1130 apt (0.3.6) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Note that 0.3.5 never made it out the door..
1133 * Fix for apt-cdrom and unusual disk label locations. Closes: #35571
1134 * Made APT print numbers in decimal. Closes: #35617, #37319
1135 * Buffer munching fix for FTP. Closes: #35868
1136 * Typo in sample config file. Closes: #35907
1137 * Fixed whitespace in version compares. Closes: #35968, #36283, #37051
1138 * Changed installed size counter to only count unpacked packages.
1140 * apt-get source support. Closes: #23934, #27190
1141 * Renames .debs that fail MD5 checking, provides automatic corruption
1142 recovery. Closes: #35931
1143 * Fixed autoconf verison. Closes: #37305
1144 * Random Segfaulting. Closes: #37312, #37530
1145 * Fixed apt-cache man page. Closes: #36904
1146 * Added a newline to apt-cache showpkg. Closes: #36903
1148 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 09:18:49 -0700
1150 apt (0.3.4) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * Release for Ben while he is out of town.
1153 * Checked the size of partial files. Closes: #33705
1154 * apt-get should not print progress on non-tty. Closes: #34944
1155 * s/guide.text.gz/users-guide.txt.gz/ debian/control: Closes: #35207
1156 * Applied cdrom patches from Torsten. Closes: #35140, #35141
1157 * smbmounted cdrom fix. Closes: #35470
1158 * Changed ie to eg. Closes: #35196
1160 -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 18:26:44 -0500
1162 apt (0.3.3) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * Fixes bug with file:/ URIs and multi-CD handling. Closes: #34923
1166 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:15:44 -0800
1168 apt (0.3.2) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Major release into unstable of v3
1171 * These bugs have been fixed, explanations are in the bug system, read
1172 the man pages as well..
1173 Closes: #21113, #22507, #22675, #22836, #22892, #32883, #33006, #34121,
1174 #23984, #24685, #24799, #25001, #25019, #34223, #34296, #34355,
1175 #24021, #25022, #25026, #25104, #25176, #31557, #31691, #31853,
1176 #25458, #26019, #26433, #26592, #26670, #27100, #27100, #27601,
1177 #28184, #28391, #28778, #29293, #29351, #27841, #28172, #30260,
1178 #29382, #29441, #29903, #29920, #29983, #30027, #30076, #30112,
1179 #31009, #31155, #31381, #31883, #32140, #32395, #32584. #34465,
1180 #30383, #30441, #30472, #30643, #30827, #30324, #36425, #34596
1182 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Mon, 15 Mar 1999 19:14:25 -0800
1184 apt (0.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
1186 * Minor release of cvs version.
1187 * Added virtual package libapt-pkgx.x
1189 -- Mitch Blevins <mblevin@debian.org> Wed, 10 Mar 1999 07:52:44 -0500
1191 apt (0.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
1193 * New experimental version.
1195 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Tue, 15 Dec 1998 12:53:21 -0800
1197 apt (0.1.9) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1199 * Return to the wacky numbering for when we build 0.1.8 for hamm
1200 * Important bug related to APT on the Alpha fixed
1201 * apt-get dist-upgrade problems fixed
1202 * tiny patch for http method to fix an endless loop
1203 * nice fix from /usr/doc/lintian/ to remove rpath nastiness from
1204 libtool and add proper shared lib dependancies
1205 * now dh_shlibdeps is called with LD_LIBRARY_PATH=debian/tmp/usr/lib
1206 in case an old libpkg is installed while building APT to prevent
1207 spurious dependancies
1209 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Thu, 5 Nov 1998 17:43:25 -0800
1211 apt (0.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * New build with libstdc++2.9.
1214 * Various fixes; read the Changelog.
1216 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Thu, 15 Oct 1998 18:29:18 -0700
1218 apt (0.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * Various fixes in the FTP method for error checking. Fixes: #26188.
1221 * Spelling corrections in dselect method. Fixes: #25884
1222 * Fixes for compilation on alpha/ppc. Fixes: #25313, #26108.
1223 * No more bo releases: we're using a normal numbering system now.
1225 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 19:27:13 -0700
1227 apt (0.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * Changed sources.list to point to 'unstable' by default, as
1230 'frozen' no longer exists!
1232 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 1998 22:00:18 -0700
1234 apt (0.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * New upstreamish version.
1237 * ftp method rewritten in C. Removes dependancies on all perl/perl
1238 related modules. This fixes many of the ftp method bugs.
1240 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 22:19:00 -0700
1242 apt (0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * Release for unstable.
1246 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 1998 20:48:30 -0700
1248 apt (0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * Kludge to fix problem in libnet-perl with illegal anonymous
1252 * Moved to unstable; apt is in a useable state now.
1253 * Fixed version numbering. From now on, numbering will be:
1254 0.1 (no actual release) -> 0.1.0bo (release for libc5) ->
1255 0.1.1 (release for unstable). Thanks, Manoj.
1257 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 1998 20:40:58 -0700
1259 apt (0.0.17-1) experimental; urgency=low
1261 * Fixed problem with libc6 version compare
1262 * Scott's away for a while, so I'll be packaging apt for the time
1265 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jun 1998 19:02:03 -0700
1267 apt (0.0.16-1) experimental; urgency=low
1269 * Modifications to make apt-get more friendly when backgrounded.
1270 * Updated documentation.
1271 * Updates to graphic widgets
1273 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Mon, 8 Jun 1998 11:22:02 -0400
1275 apt (0.0.15-0.2bo) experimental; urgency=low
1278 * Bob Hilliards crash
1280 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Sun, 31 May 1998 20:18:35 -0600
1282 apt (0.0.15-0.1bo) experimental; urgency=low
1285 * libstdc++272 patch
1287 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Sun, 31 May 1998 20:18:35 -0600
1289 apt (0.0.15) experimental; urgency=low
1291 * Clean up source tarball (no user-visible changes)
1293 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Tue, 26 May 1998 12:23:53 -0400
1295 apt (0.0.14) experimental; urgency=low
1297 * Updates in ordering code to make sure certain upgrades work correctly.
1298 * Made dselect/setup understand ftp as well as http
1300 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Wed, 20 May 1998 13:33:32 -0400
1302 apt (0.0.13-bo1) experimental; urgency=low
1306 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 1998 15:10:49 -0600
1308 apt (0.0.13) experimental; urgency=low
1310 * Remove hardcoded egcc from debian/rules (#21575)
1311 * Fixes for ordering logic when system has a number of unpacked
1312 but unconfigured packages installed.
1313 * Spelling fix in dselect install method (#22556)
1315 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 20:08:33 -0400
1317 apt (0.0.12) experimental; urgency=low
1319 * Fixed problems with package cache corruption.
1320 * Made to depend on libc6 >= 2.0.7pre1 due to timezone problems with
1322 * Interface and documentation improvements.
1324 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Sat, 16 May 1998 23:17:32 -0400
1326 apt (0.0.11) experimental; urgency=low
1328 * Change dependancies to pre-depends since breaking your packaging tools
1329 in the middle of an installation isn't very good.
1330 * Bug fixes to ftp method and general apt-get code
1332 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Fri, 15 May 1998 08:57:38 -0400
1334 apt (0.0.10) experimental; urgency=low
1336 * Run "dpkg --configure -a" after an aborted dselect install
1337 * Fixed problem with install looping
1338 * Support for authenticating proxys: (note this isn't terribly secure)
1339 http_proxy="http://user:pass@firewall:port/"
1340 * Substitute $ARCH in sources.list
1341 * Fixes in the resumption code for ftp
1343 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 1998 09:14:41 -0400
1345 apt (0.0.9) experimental; urgency=low
1347 * Added ftp support.
1348 * Various other less visible bug fixes.
1349 * Fixed problem with segfault when apt-get invoked in a non-existant
1350 directory (Bug #21863)
1351 * Bumped policy to 2.4.1
1353 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Fri, 1 May 1998 09:18:19 -0400
1355 apt (0.0.8) experimental; urgency=low
1357 * Fixed generated available file (Bug #21836)
1358 * Added download ETA (Bug #21774).
1359 * Fixed hardcoded ARCH (Bug #21751).
1360 * Fixed check on http_proxy (Bug #21795).
1361 * Added download speed indicator.
1363 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:58:32 -0400
1365 apt (0.0.7) experimental; urgency=low
1367 * Remove libdeity and apt from package for now, since only apt-get and
1368 apt-cache are actually useful right now.
1369 * Clean up handling of package installation errors.
1370 * Added timeout to http transfers (#21269)
1371 * Updated setup for dselect/apt method.
1373 * Long options (added in 0.0.6)
1375 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Tue, 21 Apr 1998 09:06:49 -0400
1377 apt (0.0.6) experimental; urgency=low
1380 * Revamped download status display.
1381 * Call apt-get clean after successful install in dselect.
1382 * Added "apt-get clean" which deletes package files from /var/cache/apt
1384 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 15:13:59 -0400
1386 apt (0.0.5) experimental; urgency=low
1388 * Ignore signals while dpkg is running so we don't leave dpkg running in
1389 the background (#20804)
1390 * Check Packages as well as Packages.gz for file URIs (#20784)
1391 * Spelling cleanup (#20800)
1392 * Added -m option to permit upgrade to go on in the case of a bad mirror.
1393 This option may result in incomplete upgrades when used with -f.
1395 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Tue, 7 Apr 1998 12:40:29 -0400
1397 apt (0.0.4) experimental; urgency=low
1400 * Various documentation updates and cleanup.
1401 * Added '-f' option to apt-get attempt to fix broken dependancies.
1403 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Sat, 4 Apr 1998 14:36:00 -0500
1405 apt (0.0.3) experimental; urgency=low
1407 * Added a shlibs.local file to prevent apt from depending on itself.
1408 * Updates to how apt-get handles bad states in installed packages.
1409 * Updated rules to make sure build works from a freshly checked out source
1410 archive. Building from CVS needs libtool/automake/autoconf, builds from
1411 the distributed source package should have no such dependancy.
1413 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Fri, 3 Apr 1998 11:49:47 -0500
1415 apt (0.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * Updates to apt-get and http binding for dselect method (apt).
1418 * Updating version number from 0.0.1, which was released only on IRC.
1420 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Fri, 3 Apr 1998 00:35:18 -0500
1422 apt (0.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1426 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 12:49:28 -0500