1 apt (0.6.43exp1) experimental; urgency=low
3 * added support for package index diffs
4 * added support for i18n of the package descriptions
5 * synced with the apt--debian-sid--0 branch
6 * build from mvo@debian.org--2005/apt--debian-experimental--0
7 (from http://people.debian.org/~mvo/arch)
8 * fix bug in apt-cache when displaying the record (closes: #334887)
9 * add patch to fix http download corruption problem (thanks to
10 Petr Vandrovec, closes: #280844, #290694)
11 * changed abi version to 3.12
13 -- Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:33:57 +0100
15 apt (0.6.43) unstable; urgency=medium
17 * Merge bubulle@debian.org--2005/apt--main--0 up to patch-132:
18 * zh_CN.po: Completed to 510 strings(Closes: #338267)
19 * gl.po: Completed to 510 strings (Closes: #338356)
20 * added support for "/etc/apt/sources.list.d" directory
22 * make pkgDirStream (a bit) more complete
23 * fix bug in pkgCache::VerIterator::end() (thanks to Daniel Burrows)
25 * pkgAcqFile is more flexible now (closes: #57091)
26 * support a download rate limit for http (closes: #146877)
27 * included lots of the speedup changes from #319377
28 * add stdint.h to contrib/md5.h (closes: #340448)
29 * ABI change, library name changed (closes: #339147)
30 * Fix GNU/kFreeBSD crash on non-existing server file (closes: #317718)
31 * switch to libdb4.3 in build-depends
33 -- Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:17:07 +0100
35 apt (0.6.42.3) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Merge bubulle@debian.org--2005/apt--main--0 up to patch-129:
38 - patch-118: Russian translation update by Yuri Kozlov (closes: #335164)
39 - patch-119: add update-po as a pre-req for binary (closes: #329910)
40 - patch-121: Complete French translation
41 - patch-125: Fixed localization of y/n questions in German translation
43 - patch-126: Swedish translation update (closes: #337163)
44 - patch-127: Complete Tagalog translation (closes: #337306)
45 - patch-128: Danish translation update (closes: #337949)
46 - patch-129: Basque translation update (closes: #338101)
48 - bufix in FindSrc (closes: #335213, #337910)
49 * added armeb to archtable (closes: #333599)
50 * with --allow-unauthenticated use the old fallback behaviour for
51 sources (closes: #335112)
53 -- Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 07:22:31 +0100
55 apt (0.6.42.2) unstable; urgency=high
57 * NMU (approved by maintainer)
58 * Add AMD64 archive signing key to debian-archive.gpg (closes: #336500).
59 * Add big-endian arm (armeb) support (closes: #333599).
60 * Priority high to get the AMD key into testing ASAP.
62 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Sun, 30 Oct 2005 21:29:11 +0100
64 apt (0.6.42.1) unstable; urgency=low
66 * fix a incorrect example in the apt_prefrences man page
67 (thanks to Filipus Klutiero, closes: #282918)
68 * apt-pkg/pkgrecords.cc:
69 - revert patch from last version, it causes trouble on alpha
70 and ia64 (closes: #335102, #335103)
72 - be extra carefull in FindSrc (closes: #335213)
74 -- Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 23:44:35 +0200
76 apt (0.6.42) unstable; urgency=low
79 - unmount the cdrom when apt failed to locate any package files
80 * allow cdrom failures and fallback to other sources in that case
82 * better error text when dpkg-source fails
83 * Merge bubulle@debian.org--2005/apt--main--0 up to patch-115:
84 - patch-99: Added Galician translation
85 - patch-100: Completed Danish translation (Closes: #325686)
86 - patch-104: French translation completed
87 - patch-109: Italian translation completed
88 - patch-112: Swedish translation update
89 - patch-115: Basque translation completed (Closes: #333299)
90 * applied french man-page update (thanks to Philippe Batailler)
91 (closes: #316638, #327456)
92 * fix leak in the mmap code, thanks to Daniel Burrows for the
93 patch (closes: #250583)
94 * support for apt-get [build-dep|source] -t (closes: #152129)
95 * added "APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM" option to make the life
96 for the installer people easier (closes: #334656)
97 * fix crash in apt-ftparchive (thanks to Bastian Blank for the patch)
99 * apt-pkg/contrib/md5.cc:
100 - fix a alignment problem on sparc64 that gives random bus errors
101 (thanks to Fabbione for providing a test-case)
102 * init the default ScreenWidth to 79 columns by default
104 * cmdline/apt-cdrom.cc:
105 - fix some missing gettext() calls (closes: #334539)
106 * doc/apt-cache.8.xml: fix typo (closes: #334714)
108 -- Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:02:09 +0200
110 apt (0.6.41) unstable; urgency=low
112 * improved the support for "error" and "conffile" reporting from
113 dpkg, added the format to README.progress-reporting
114 * added README.progress-reporting to the apt-doc package
115 * improved the network timeout handling, if a index file from a
116 sources.list times out or EAI_AGAIN is returned from getaddrinfo,
117 don't try to get the other files from that entry
118 * Support architecture-specific extra overrides
119 (closes: #225947). Thanks to Anthony Towns for idea and
120 the patch, thanks to Colin Watson for testing it.
121 * Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a:
122 - Added a first version of an apt-secure.8 manpage, and modified
123 apt-key and apt.end accordingly. Also added the 'update'
124 argument to apt-key which was previously not documented
127 - added example apt-ftparchive.conf file to doc/examples
129 * Fix a incorrect example in the man-page (closes: #282918)
130 * Fix a bug for very long lines in the apt-cdrom code (closes: #280356)
131 * Fix a manual page bug (closes: #316314)
132 * Do md5sum checking for file and cdrom method (closes: #319142)
133 * Change pkgPolicy::Pin from private to protected to let subclasses
134 access it too (closes: #321799)
135 * add default constructor for PrvIterator (closes: #322267)
136 * Reread status configuration on debSystem::Initialize()
137 (needed for apt-proxy, thanks to Otavio for this patch)
139 -- Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> Mon, 5 Sep 2005 22:59:03 +0200
141 apt (0.6.40.1) unstable; urgency=low
143 * bugfix in the parsing code for the apt<->dpkg communication. apt
144 crashed when dpkg sends the same state more than once under certain
146 * 0.6.40 breaks the ABI but I accidentally didn't change the soname :/
148 -- Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> Fri, 5 Aug 2005 13:24:58 +0200
150 apt (0.6.40) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Patch from Jordi Mallach to mark some additional strings for translation
153 * Updated Catalan translation from Jordi Mallach
154 * Merge from bubulle@debian.org--2005/apt--main--0:
155 - Update pot and merge with *.po
156 - Updated French translation, including apt-key.fr.8
157 * Restore changelog entries from the 0.6.x series that went to Debian
159 * Merge michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0
160 - Provide an interface for progress reporting which can be used by
163 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:57:32 -0700
165 apt (0.6.39) unstable; urgency=low
167 * Welsh translation update: daf@muse.19inch.net--2005/apt--main--0--patch-6
168 * Merge mvo's changes from 0.6.36ubuntu1:
169 michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--mvo--0--patch-32
170 * Merge aggregated translation updates:
171 bubulle@debian.org--2005/apt--main--0
172 * Update priority of apt-utils to important, to match the override file
173 * Install only one keyring on each branch (Closes: #316119)
175 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:51:09 -0700
177 apt (0.6.38) unstable; urgency=low
179 * Merge michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--fixes--0--patch-6, a workaround
180 for the French man pages' failure to build
181 * Branch Debian and Ubuntu
182 - apt.postinst, apt-key: use the appropriate keyring
183 - debian/rules: install all keyrings
184 * Add the current Debian archive signing key (4F368D5D) to
186 * make pinning on the "component" work again (using the section of the
187 archive, we don't use per-section Release files anymore with apt-0.6)
188 (closes ubuntu #9935)
190 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jun 2005 09:51:00 -0700
193 apt (0.6.37) breezy; urgency=low
195 * Merge bubulle@debian.org--2005/apt--main--0 up to patch-81
196 - patch-66: Italian update
197 - patch-71: French update
198 - patch-73: Basque update
199 - patch-74: Hebrew update
200 - patch-76: Correct Hebrew translation (Closes: #306658)
201 - patch-77: French man page update
202 - patch-79: Correct syntax errors in Hebrew translation
203 - patch-81: Portuguese update
204 * Fix build of French man pages (now using XML, not SGML)
205 * Add Welsh translation from Dafydd Harries
206 (daf@muse.19inch.net--2005/apt--main--0--patch-1)
207 * Change debian/bugscript to use #!/bin/bash (Closes: #313402)
209 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 24 May 2005 14:38:25 -0700
211 apt (0.6.36ubuntu1) breezy; urgency=low
213 * make it possible to write a cache-control: no-cache header even if
214 no proxy is set to support transparent proxies (closes ubuntu: #10773)
216 * Merge otavio@debian.org--2005/apt--fixes--0.6:
217 - Fix comment about the need of xmlto while building from Arch;
218 - Fix StatStore struct on cachedb.h to use time_t and then fix a compile
220 - Lock database at start of DoInstall routine to avoid concurrent
221 runs of install/remove and update commands (Closes: #194467)
222 - Fix warnings while compiling with GCC 4.0 compiler
224 -- Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 23 May 2005 11:57:53 +0200
226 apt (0.6.36) experimental; urgency=low
229 - apt-pkg/acquire-item.cc:
230 added "Acquire::BrokenProxy" that will force apt to always
231 re-get the Release.gpg file (for broken proxies)
232 - debian/apt.cron.daily:
233 MinAge is defaulting to 2 days now to prevent over-aggresive removal
235 honor "Acquire::gpgv::Options" when verifying the signature (Ubuntu #8496)
237 -- Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:37:11 +0200
239 apt (0.6.35) hoary; urgency=low
241 * Merge apt--mvo--0 (incorporates 0.6.34ubuntu1):
242 - Implement MaxSize and MaxAge in apt.cron.daily, to prevent the cache
243 from growing too large (Ubuntu #6761)
244 - some comments about the pkgAcqMetaSig::Custom600Headers() added
245 - use gpg --with-colons
246 - commented the ftp no_proxy unseting in methods/ftp.cc
247 - added support for "Acquire::gpgv::options" in methods/gpgv.cc
248 * Merge bubulle@debian.org--2005/apt--main--0
249 - Make capitalization more consistent
250 - Un-fuzzy translations resulting from capitalization changes
251 - Italian translation update
253 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 7 Mar 2005 20:08:33 -0800
255 apt (0.6.34) hoary; urgency=low
257 * Add missing semicolon to configure-index (Closes: #295773)
258 * Update build-depends on gettext to 0.12 (Closes: #295077)
259 * Merge from bubulle@debian.org--2005/apt--main--0 to get
262 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:13:15 -0800
264 apt (0.6.33) hoary; urgency=low
266 * Merge michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--mvo--0 (through patch-6)
267 - patch-1: cosmetic changes (whitespace, "Apt::GPGV->APT::GPGV")
268 - patch-2: (doc) documentation for gpgv
269 - patch-3: (doc) new config variables added configure-index
270 - patch-4: pkgAcquire::Run() pulse intervall can be configured
271 - patch-5: fix for apt-get update removing Release.gpg files (#6865)
272 - patch-6: change the path scoring in apt-cdrom, prefer pathes without
275 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:21:17 -0800
277 apt (0.6.32) hoary; urgency=low
279 * Merge michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--mvo--0 (patch-1)
280 - Implement Acquire::gpgv::options (Ubuntu bug#6283)
282 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:31:15 -0800
284 apt (0.6.31) hoary; urgency=low
287 - Remove debugging output from apt.cron.daily (no one noticed?)
288 - Apply patch from Anthony Towns to allow SHA1Summation to process a file
289 descriptor until EOF, rather than requiring that the length of input be
290 specified (Closes: #291338)
291 - Fix build/install of Polish offline documentation, based on patch from
292 Christian Perrier (Closes: #270404)
294 - apt-cdrom.cc seperated into frontend (cmdline/apt-cdrom.cc and library
295 apt-pkg/cdrom.{cc,h}) (Ubuntu #5668)
297 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 4 Feb 2005 10:23:01 -0800
299 apt (0.6.30) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Add ppc64 to buildlib/archtable
302 * Merge michael.vogt@canonical.com--2004/apt--status-fd--0
303 - Support preserving dpkg status file descriptor, to support
304 better integration with synaptic
306 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:26:01 -0800
308 apt (0.6.29) hoary; urgency=low
310 * Merge apt--mvo--0 (0.6.27ubuntu4)
313 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:18:02 -0800
315 apt (0.6.28) hoary; urgency=low
318 * Rebuild source to get rid of arch metadata and temporary files in
321 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Thu, 23 Dec 2004 18:53:16 -0800
323 apt (0.6.27ubuntu4) hoary; urgency=low
325 * remove old sig-file in partial/ before starting to fetch a new sig-file
326 (see ubuntu #4769 for the rational)
327 * added apt-key update method (uses ubuntu-keyring)
328 * documented the "--allow-unauthenticated" switch
329 * added DEB_BUILD_PROG_OPTS to debian/rules (additonal options can be
330 passed to DEB_BUILD_PROG like "-S")
332 -- Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:12:51 +0100
334 apt (0.6.27ubuntu3) hoary; urgency=low
336 * added a exact dependency from libapt-pkg-dev to the apt version it was
339 -- Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:56:32 +0100
341 apt (0.6.27ubuntu2) hoary; urgency=low
343 * fixed a bug in the rule file that happend during the big 0.5->0.6 merge
345 -- Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:14:25 +0100
347 apt (0.6.27ubuntu1) hoary; urgency=low
349 * chmod 755 /usr/bin/apt-key
350 * don't display a error when a apt-get update don't find a
351 Packages.bz2/Sources.bz2 file
353 -- Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:40:21 +0100
355 apt (0.6.27) hoary; urgency=low
357 * Merge apt--authentication--0 branch
358 - Implement gpg authentication for package repositories (Closes: #203741)
359 - Also includes Michael Vogt's fixes
360 * Merge apt--misc-abi-changes--0 branch
361 - Use pid_t throughout to hold process IDs (Closes: #226701)
362 - Import patch from Debian bug #195510: (Closes: #195510)
363 - Make Simulate::Describe and Simulate::ShortBreaks private member
365 - Add a parameter (Candidate) to Describe to control whether the
366 candidate version is displayed
367 - Pass an appropriate value for Candidate everywhere Describe is called
369 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Mon, 13 Dec 2004 01:03:11 -0800
371 apt (0.6.25) experimental; urgency=low
373 * Fix handling of two-part sources for sources.list deb-src entries in
374 the same way that deb entries were fixed
376 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jun 2004 05:29:50 -0700
378 apt (0.6.24) experimental; urgency=low
380 * YnPrompt fixes were inadvertently left out, include them (Closes:
383 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 2004 14:18:53 -0700
385 apt (0.6.23) experimental; urgency=low
387 * Remove obsolete pkgIterator::TargetVer() (Closes: #230159)
388 * Reverse test in CheckAuth to match new prompt (Closes: #248211)
390 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 2004 21:01:58 -0700
392 apt (0.6.22) experimental; urgency=low
395 * Make the unauthenticated packages prompt more intuitive (yes to
396 continue, default no), but require --force-yes in addition to
397 --assume-yes in order to override
399 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:55:35 -0800
401 apt (0.6.21) experimental; urgency=low
405 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:52:34 -0800
407 apt (0.6.20) experimental; urgency=low
411 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:17:02 -0800
413 apt (0.6.19) experimental; urgency=low
416 * Convert apt-key(8) to docbook XML
418 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 15:44:49 -0800
420 apt (0.6.18) experimental; urgency=low
422 * Add new Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key to the default keyring
423 (existing keyrings are not updated; do that yourself)
425 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 17:04:30 -0800
427 apt (0.6.17) experimental; urgency=low
430 * Handle more IMS stuff correctly
432 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:54:25 -0800
434 apt (0.6.16) experimental; urgency=low
436 * Fix some cases where the .gpg file could be left in place when it is
439 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jan 2004 09:22:15 -0800
441 apt (0.6.15) experimental; urgency=low
443 * s/Debug::Acquire::gpg/&v/
444 * Honor the [vendor] syntax in sources.list again (though it is not
445 presently used for anything)
446 * Don't ship vendors.list(5) since it isn't used yet
447 * Revert change from 0.6.10; it was right in the first place and the
448 problem was apparently something else. Archive = Suite.
450 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 2004 17:43:01 -0800
452 apt (0.6.14) experimental; urgency=low
456 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jan 2004 11:09:21 -0800
458 apt (0.6.13) experimental; urgency=low
462 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 2004 16:22:31 -0800
464 apt (0.6.12) experimental; urgency=low
466 * Have pkgAcquireIndex calculate an MD5 sum if one is not provided by
467 the method (as with file: and copy:). Local repositories
468 * Fix warning about dist name mismatch to actually print what it was
470 * Don't expect any particular distribution name for two-part
474 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jan 2004 13:59:00 -0800
476 apt (0.6.11) experimental; urgency=low
478 * Support IMS requests of Release.gpg and Release
479 * This required API changes, bump the libapt-pkg version
480 * Copy local Release files into Dir::State::Lists
481 * Set IndexFile attribute when retrieving Release and Release.gpg so
482 that the appropriate Cache-Control headers are sent
484 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jan 2004 10:46:17 -0800
486 apt (0.6.10) experimental; urgency=low
488 * Use "Codename" (woody, sarge, etc.) to supply the value of the
489 "Archive" package file attribute, used to match "release a=" type
490 pins, rather than "Suite" (stable, testing, etc.)
492 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jan 2004 16:56:47 -0800
494 apt (0.6.9) experimental; urgency=low
496 * Another tagfile workaround
498 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jan 2004 13:56:08 -0800
500 apt (0.6.8) experimental; urgency=low
502 * Add a config option and corresponding command line option
503 (--allow-unauthenticated) to apt-get, to make buildd operators happy
506 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Wed, 31 Dec 2003 08:28:04 -0800
508 apt (0.6.7) experimental; urgency=low
510 * Forgot to revert part of the changes to tagfile in 0.6.4. Hopefully
511 will fix segfaults for some folks.
513 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Wed, 31 Dec 2003 08:01:28 -0800
515 apt (0.6.6) experimental; urgency=low
517 * Restore the ugly hack I removed from indexRecords::Load which set the
518 pkgTagFile buffer size to (file size)+256. This is concealing a bug,
519 but I can't fix it right now. This should fix the segfaults that
520 folks are seeing with 0.6.[45].
522 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Mon, 29 Dec 2003 18:11:13 -0800
524 apt (0.6.5) experimental; urgency=low
526 * Move the authentication check into a separate function in apt-get
527 * Fix display of unauthenticated packages when they are in the cache
530 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 2003 16:47:57 -0800
532 apt (0.6.4) experimental; urgency=low
534 * Use the top-level Release file in LoadReleaseInfo, rather than looking
535 for the per-section ones (which aren't downloaded anymore). This
536 unbreaks release pinning, including the NotAutomatic bit used by
538 * Use FileFd::Size() rather than a separate stat() call in
540 * Fix pkgTagFile to leave a little extra room at the end of the buffer
541 to append the record separator if it isn't present
542 * Change LoadReleaseInfo to use "Suite" rather than "Archive", to match
543 the Debian archive's dist-level Release files
545 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 2003 15:55:55 -0800
547 apt (0.6.3) experimental; urgency=low
549 * Fix MetaIndexURI for flat ("foo/") sources
551 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 2003 12:11:56 -0800
553 apt (0.6.2) experimental; urgency=low
555 * Add space between package names when multiple unauthenticated packages
556 are being installed (Closes: #225212)
557 * Provide apt-key with a secret keyring and a trustdb, even though we
558 would never use them, because it blows up if it doesn't have them
559 * Fix typo in apt-key(8) (standard input is '-', not '/')
561 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 2003 13:01:40 -0800
563 apt (0.6.1) experimental; urgency=low
566 * Rearrange Release file authentication code to be more clear
567 * If Release is present, but Release.gpg is not, don't forget to still
569 * Convert distribution "../project/experimental" to "experimental" for
571 * Make a number of Release file errors into warnings; for now, it is OK
572 not to have a codename, for example. We mostly care about checksums
575 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 26 Dec 2003 15:12:47 -0800
577 apt (0.6.0) experimental; urgency=low
579 * Signature verification support patch ("apt-secure") from Colin Walters
580 <walters@debian.org> and Isaac Jones <ijones@syntaxpolice.org>. This
582 - Release signature verification (Release.gpg)
583 - Packages, Sources md5sum verification against Release
585 * Make some modifications to signature verification support:
586 - Release.gpg is always retrieved and verified if present, rather than
587 requiring that sources be configured as secure
588 - Print a hint about installing gnupg if exec(gpgv) fails
589 - Remove obsolete pkgAcqIndexRel
590 - Move vendors.list stuff into a separate module (vendorlist.{h,cc})
591 - If any files about to be retrieved are not authenticated, issue a
592 warning to the user and require confirmation
593 - Fix a heap corruption bug in pkgSrcRecords::pkgSrcRecords()
595 * Install a keyring in /usr/share/apt/debian-archive.gpg containing an
596 initial set of Debian archive signing keys to seed /etc/apt/trusted.gpg
597 * Add a new tool, apt-key(8) used to manage the keyring
599 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 26 Dec 2003 08:27:19 -0800
601 apt (0.5.32) hoary; urgency=low
603 * Call setlocale in the methods, so that the messages are properly
604 localised (Closes: #282700)
605 * Implement support for bzip2-compressed debs (data.tar.bz2)
607 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Sat, 11 Dec 2004 09:05:52 -0800
609 apt (0.5.31) unstable; urgency=low
611 * New Romanian translation from Sorin Batariuc <sorin@bonbon.net>
613 * Merge changes from Hoary (0.5.30,0.5.30ubuntu2]
614 * Fix the example in apt_preferences(5) to match the text
616 * Add APT::Periodic::Autoclean setting, to allow "apt-get autoclean" to
617 be run periodically. This is useful with
618 APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages, and defaults to the same
619 value, so that the cache size is bounded
621 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 2004 12:53:04 -0800
623 apt (0.5.30ubuntu2) hoary; urgency=low
625 * bzip2 is now "Suggested" and it will detect if bzip2 is installed
626 and only then trying to get Packages.bz2
628 -- Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:00:39 +0100
630 apt (0.5.30ubuntu1) hoary; urgency=low
632 * Need to Depend: bzip2 or Packages.bz2 fail.
634 -- LaMont Jones <lamont@canonical.com> Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:51:05 -0700
636 apt (0.5.30) hoary; urgency=low
638 * Patch from Michael Vogt to enable Packages.bz2 use, with a fallback to
639 Packages.gz if it is not present (Closes: #37525)
641 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:57:28 -0800
643 apt (0.5.29) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Don't hardcode paths in apt.cron.daily
646 * Add to apt.cron.daily the capability to pre-download upgradeable
648 * Place timestamp files in /var/lib/apt/periodic, rather than
650 * Standardize debhelper files a bit
651 - Create all directories in debian/dirs rather than creating some on
652 the dh_installdirs command line
653 - Rename debian/dirs to debian/apt.dirs, debian/examples to
656 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 13 Nov 2004 17:58:07 -0800
658 apt (0.5.28) hoary; urgency=low
660 * Translation updates:
661 - Updated Hungarian from Kelemen Gábor <kelemeng@gnome.hu> (Closes: #263436)
662 - Updated Greek from George Papamichelakis (Closes: #265004)
663 - Updated Simplified Chinese from Tchaikov (Closes: #265190)
664 - Updated French by Christian Perrier (Closes: #265816)
665 - Updated Japanese by Kenshi Muto (Closes: #265630)
666 - Updated Catalan from Jordi Mallach
667 - Updated Dutch from Bart Cornelis (Closes: #268258, #278697)
668 - Updated Portuguese from Miguel Figueiredo (Closes: #268265)
669 - Updated Polish from Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org> (Closes: #268451)
670 - Updated Danish from Claus Hindsgaul (Closes: #269417)
671 - Updated Norwegian Nynorsk from HÃ¥vard Korsvoll <korsvoll@skulelinux.no>
673 - Updated Russian from Yuri Kozlov <yuray@id.ru> (Closes: #271104)
674 - Updated Italian from Samuele Giovanni Tonon <samu@debian.org>
676 - Updated Brazilian Portuguese from Andre Luis Lopes (Closes: #273944)
677 - Updated Slovak from Peter Mann (Closes: #279481)
678 * APT::Get::APT::Get::No-List-Cleanup -> APT::Get::List-Cleanup in apt-get.cc
680 * Merge Ubuntu changes:
681 - Set default Dpkg::MaxArgs to 1024, and Dpkg::MaxArgBytes to 32k.
682 Needed to work around ordering bugs when installing a large number of
684 - Patch from Michael Vogt to add an optional cron job which
685 can run apt-get update periodically
686 * Add arch-build target to debian/rules
688 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 13 Nov 2004 15:52:20 -0800
690 apt (0.5.27) unstable; urgency=high
692 * Sneak in a bunch of updated translations before the freeze
694 * Translation updates:
695 - New Finnish translation from Tapio Lehtonen <tale@debian.org>
697 - New Bosnian translation from Safir Šećerović <sapphire@linux.org.ba>
699 - Fix Italian incontrario (Closes: #217277)
700 - Updated Spanish from Ruben Porras (Closes: #260483)
701 - Updated Danish from Claus Hindsgaul (Closes: #260569)
702 - Updated Slovak from Peter Mann (Closes: #260627)
703 - Updated Portuguese from Miguel Figueiredo (Closes: #261423)
704 * Bring configure-index up to date with documented options, patch from
705 Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> (Closes: #259540)
706 * Note in apt.conf(5) that configure-index does not contain strictly
707 default values, but also examples
708 * Add Polish translation of offline.sgml (Closes: #259229)
710 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 2004 09:30:12 -0700
712 apt (0.5.26) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Translation updates:
715 - Spanish update from Ruben Porras <nahoo82@telefonica.net> (Closes: #248214)
716 - Sync Spanish apt(8) (Closes: #249241)
717 - French update from Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> (Closes: #248614)
718 - New Slovak translation from Peter Mann <Peter.Mann@tuke.sk> (Closes: #251676)
719 - Czech update from Miroslav Kure <kurem@upcase.inf.upol.cz> (Closes: #251682)
720 - pt_BR update from Andre Luis Lopes <andrelop@debian.org> (Closes: #251961)
721 - German translation of apt(8) from Helge Kreutzmann <kreutzm@itp.uni-hannover.de>
723 - pt update from Miguel Figueiredo <elmig@debianpt.org> (Closes: #252700)
724 - New Hebrew translation from Lior Kaplan <webmaster@guides.co.il>
726 - New Basque translation from Piarres Beobide Egaña <pi@beobide.net>
727 (Vasco - Euskara - difficult language, Closes: #254407) and already a
728 correction (Closes: #255760)
729 - Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation from
730 Guilherme de S. Pastore <gpastore@colband.com.br> (Closes: #256396)
731 - Updated Greek translation (complete now) from
732 George Papamichelakis <george@step.gr> (Closes: #256797)
733 - New Korean translation from Changwoo Ryu <cwryu@debian.org>
735 - German translation now available in two flavours: with Unicode usage and
736 without (related to #228486, #235759)
737 * Update apt-get(8) to reflect the fact that APT::Get::Only-Source will
738 affect apt-get build-dep as well as apt-get source
739 * Remove aborted remnants of a different method of implementing DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS
741 * Fix typo in error message when encountering unknown type in source list
743 * Update k*bsd-gnu arch names in buildlib/ostable (Closes: #253532)
744 * Add amd64 to buildlib/archtable (Closes: #240896)
745 * Have configure output a more useful error message if the architecture
748 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 8 Jul 2004 15:53:28 -0700
750 apt (0.5.25) unstable; urgency=low
752 * Patch from Jason Gunthorpe to remove arbitrary length limit on Binary
753 field in SourcesWriter::DoPackage
754 * Fix typo in apt-cache(8) (Closes: #238578)
755 * Fix obsolete reference to bug(1) in stub apt(8) man page
757 * Fix typo in configure-index (RecruseDepends -> RecurseDepends)
759 * Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt in debian/rules
761 * Increase length of line buffer in ReadConfigFile to 1024 chars;
762 detect if a line is longer than that and error out
764 * Suppress a signed/unsigned warning in apt-cache.cc:DisplayRecord
765 * Build apt-ftparchive with libdb4.2 rather than libdb2
766 - Patch from Clint Adams to do most of the work
767 - Build-Depends: s/libdb2-dev/libdb4.2-dev/
768 - Add AC_PREREQ(2.50) to configure.in
769 - Use db_strerror(err) rather than GlobalError::Errno (which uses strerror)
770 - Add note to NEWS.Debian about upgrading old databases
771 * Attempt to fix problems with chunked encoding by stripping only a single CR
773 * Modify debian/rules cvs-build to use cvs export, to avoid picking up
774 junk files from the working directory
775 * Add lang=fr attribute to refentry section of
776 apt-extracttemplates.fr.1.sgml and apt-sortpkgs.fr.1.sgml so they are
778 * Remove extraneous '\' characters from <command> tags in
779 apt_preferences.fr.5.sgml
780 * Translation updates:
781 - Updated Swedish translation from Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
783 - New Slovenian translation from Jure ÄŒuhalev <gandalf@owca.info>
785 - New Portuguese translation from Miguel Figueiredo <elmig@debianpt.org>
787 - Updated Spanish translation from Ruben Porras <nahoo82@telefonica.net>
788 - Updated Spanish translation of man pages from Ruben Porras
789 <nahoo82@telefonica.net>
790 - Updated Simplified Chinese translation from "Carlos Z.F. Liu" <carlos_liu@yahoo.com>
792 - Updated Russian translation from Dmitry Astapov <adept@despammed.com>
794 - Updated Polish translation from Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>
796 - Updated Czech translation from Miroslav Kure <kurem@upcase.inf.upol.cz>
798 - Updated Japanese translation from Kenshi Muto <kmuto@debian.org>
800 - Run make -C po update-po to update .po files
801 - Updated French translation from Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>
803 - Updated Danish translation from Claus Hindsgaul <claus_h@image.dk>
806 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 8 May 2004 12:52:20 -0700
808 apt (0.5.24) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Updated Czech translation from Miroslav Kure <kurem@upcase.inf.upol.cz>
812 * Updated French translation from Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>
814 * Updates to XML man pages from richard.bos@xs4all.nl
815 * Updated Danish translation from Claus Hindsgaul <claus_h@image.dk>
817 * Updated Greek translation from Konstantinos Margaritis
820 * Updated Spanish translation from Ruben Porras <nahoo82@telefonica.net>
822 * Updated pt_BR translation from Andre Luis Lopes <andrelop@debian.org>
824 * Regenerate .pot file (Closes: #237892)
825 * Updated Polish translation from Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>
827 * In pkgAcquire::Shutdown(), set the status of fetching items to
828 StatError to avoid a sometimes large batch of error messages
830 * Implement an ugly workaround for the 10000-character limit on the
831 Binaries field in debSrcRecordParser, until such time as some things
832 can be converted over to use STL data types (ABI change) (Closes: #236688)
833 * Increase default tagfile buffer from 32k to 128k; this arbitrary limit
834 should also be removed someday (Closes: #174945)
835 * Checked against Standards-Version 3.6.1 (no changes)
837 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:47:55 -0800
839 apt (0.5.23) unstable; urgency=low
841 * Cosmetic updates to XML man pages from Richard Bos <radoeka@xs4all.nl>
842 * Use the 'binary' target rather than 'all' so that the ssh and bzip2
843 symlinks are created correctly (thanks to Adam Heath)
845 * Updated Simplified Chinese translation of message catalog from Tchaikov
846 <chaisave@263.net> (Closes: #234186)
847 * Change default for Acquire::http::max-age to 0 to prevent index files
848 being out of sync with each other (important with Release.gpg)
849 * Add an assert() to make sure that we don't overflow a fixed-size
850 buffer in the very unlikely event that someone adds 10 packaging
851 systems to apt (Closes: #233678)
852 * Fix whitespace in French translation of "Yes, do as I say!", which
853 made it tricky to type, again. Thanks to Sylvain Pasche
854 <sylvain.pasche@switzerland.org> (Closes: #234494)
855 * Print a slightly clearer error message if no packaging systems are
856 available (Closes: #233681)
857 * Point to Build-Depends in COMPILING (Closes: #233669)
858 * Make debian/rules a bit more consistent in a few places.
859 Specifically, always use -p$@ rather than an explicit package name,
860 and always specify it first, and use dh_shlibdeps -l uniformly rather
861 than sometimes changing LD_LIBRARY_PATH directly
862 * Document unit for Cache-Limit (bytes) (Closes: #234737)
863 * Don't translate "Yes, do as I say!" in Chinese locales, because it can
864 be difficult to input (Closes: #234886)
866 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:08:14 -0800
868 apt (0.5.22) unstable; urgency=low
870 * Updated French translation of man pages from Philippe Batailler
871 <philippe.batailler@free.fr> (Closes: #203119)
872 * Initialize StatusFile in debSystem (Closes: #229791)
873 * Fix apt-get's suggests/recommends printing, which was skipping every
874 other dependency due to both using GlobOr and incrementing the DepIterator
876 * Restore SIGINT/SIGQUIT handlers to their old values (rather than
877 SIG_DFL) after invoking dpkg (Closes: #229854)
878 * Updated Dutch translation of message catalog from cobaco
879 <cobaco@linux.be> (Closes: #229601)
880 * Catalan translation from Antoni Bella, Matt Bonner and Jordi Mallach
882 * Simplified Chinese translation of message catalog from "Carlos
883 Z.F. Liu" <carlos_liu@yahoo.com> (Closes: #230960)
884 * Replace SGML manpages with XML man pages from richard.bos@xs4all.nl
886 * Updated Spanish translation of man pages from Ruben Porras
887 <nahoo82@telefonica.net> (Closes: #231539)
888 * New Czech translation of message catalog from Miroslav Kure
889 <kurem@upcase.inf.upol.cz> (Closes: #231921)
891 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:44:54 -0800
893 apt (0.5.21) unstable; urgency=low
895 * Patch from Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> to include apt18n.h after
896 other headers to avoid breaking locale.h when setlocale() is defined
897 as an empty macro. This was not a problem on Debian, but broke
898 compilation on Solaris. (Closes: #226509)
899 * Updated French translation from Pierre Machard <pmachard@debian.org>
901 * Add colons to apt-get's "kept back"/"upgraded"/"downgraded" messages
903 * Fix typo in apt-cache(8) (Closes: #226351)
904 * Clearer error message in place of "...has no available version, but
905 exists in the database" (Closes: #212203)
906 * Patch from Oliver Kurth <oku@masqmail.cx> to use AC_CACHE_VAL for
907 GLIBC_VER to make cross-compilation easier (Closes: #221528)
908 * Add example preferences file (Closes: #220799)
909 * Updated Greek translation from Konstantinos Margaritis <markos@debian.org>
911 * Updated Spanish translation of man pages from Ruben Porras
912 <nahoo82@telefonica.net> (Closes: #227729)
914 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:54:39 -0800
916 apt (0.5.20) unstable; urgency=low
918 * Fixed German translations of "Suggested" from Christian Garbs
919 <debian@cgarbs.de> (Closes: #197960)
920 * Add an "apt-cache madison" command with an output format similar to
921 the katie tool of the same name (but less functionality)
922 * Fix debSourcesIndex::Describe() to correctly say "Sources" rather than
925 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 2004 23:42:50 -0800
927 apt (0.5.19) unstable; urgency=low
929 * Fix Packages::Extensions support in apt-ftparchive generate
932 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 2004 16:20:31 -0800
934 apt (0.5.18) unstable; urgency=low
936 * New no_NO.po file from Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org> to fix
937 encoding problems (Closes: #225602)
938 * Have "apt-ftparchive release" strip the leading path component from
941 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jan 2004 11:24:35 -0800
943 apt (0.5.17) unstable; urgency=low
945 * Enable apt-ftparchive to generate Release files. Hopefully this will
946 make it easier for folks to secure their apt-able packages
948 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 26 Dec 2003 12:53:21 -0800
950 apt (0.5.16) unstable; urgency=low
952 * po/de.po update from Michael Karcher <karcher@physik.fu-berlin.de>
954 * Update config.guess and config.sub from autotools-dev 20031007.1
955 * Add knetbsd to buildlib/ostable (Closes: #212344)
956 * Don't suggest apt-get -f install to correct broken build-deps; broken
957 installed packages are rarely the cause (Closes: #220858)
958 * Avoid clobbering configure.in if sed fails
960 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Wed, 24 Dec 2003 14:54:40 -0800
962 apt (0.5.15) unstable; urgency=low
964 * Spanish man pages, patch from Ruben Porras <nahoo82@telefonica.net>
966 - apt.es.8 wasn't included in the patch, but was referenced. Fetched
967 version 1.3 from debian-doc cvs
968 - Create doc/es/.cvsignore
969 * Patch from Koblinger Egmont <egmont@uhulinux.hu> to fix
970 pkgCache::PkgFileIterator::Label() to correctly refer to File->Label
971 rather than File->Origin (Closes: #213311)
972 * Add missing comma and space to German translation of "downgraded"
974 * Add missing comma in apt_preferences(5) (Closes: #215362)
975 * Fix whitespace in French translation of "Yes, do as I say!", which
976 made it tricky to type. Thanks to Sylvain Pasche
977 <sylvain.pasche@switzerland.org> (Closes: #217152)
978 * Let apt-get build-dep try alternatives if the installed package
979 doesn't meet version requirements (Closes: #214736)
980 * Fix version display for recommends (Closes: #219900)
981 * Use isatty rather than ttyname for checking if stdin is a terminal.
982 isatty has the advantage of not requiring /proc under Linux, and thus
984 * Correctly implement -n as a synonym for --names-only (Closes: #224515)
985 * Update apt-cache(8)
986 - Document --installed
987 - --recursive applies to both depends and rdepends
988 * Japanese translation of documentation from Kurasawa Nozomu <nabetaro@slug.jp>
990 * Clarify documentation of --no-upgrade in apt-get(8) (Closes: #219743)
991 * Clean up and simplify some of the suggests/recommends display in apt-get
992 * Use cvs update -d in debian/rules cvs-build rather than just update
993 * Pass --preserve-envvar PATH --preserve-envvar CCACHE_DIR to debuild. apt
994 takes a long time to build, and ccache helps
996 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 20 Dec 2003 16:34:30 -0800
998 apt (0.5.14) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * apt-get build-dep, when trying to skip over the remaining elements of
1001 an or-expression, would accidentally inherit the version requirements of a
1002 later item in the or-expression. Fixed it.
1003 * Let apt-get build-dep try alternatives if the first dependency in an
1004 or-expression is not available
1005 * Add a Debug::BuildDeps to generate some trace output
1006 * Help apt-get build-dep produce more useful error messages
1007 * Process build-dependencies in forward rather than reverse order
1008 * Error out if an installed package is too new for a << or <=
1010 * apt-get build-dep should now be able to handle almost any package with
1011 correct build-depends. The primary exception is build-dependencies on
1012 virtual packages with more than one provider, and these are
1013 discouraged for automated processing (but still common,
1016 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:57:31 -0400
1018 apt (0.5.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1020 * Document configuration file comment syntax in apt.conf(5)
1022 * s/removed/installed/ in a comment in apt-get.cc
1023 * Move comment for ListParser::ParseDepends into the right place
1024 * Don't preserve ownership when copying config.guess and config.sub.
1025 This broke builds where the clean target was run with different
1026 privileges than the rest of the build (i.e., root) (Closes: #212183)
1027 * On second thought, don't copy config.guess and config.sub at all. I'd
1028 rather they always match what is in CVS.
1030 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 2003 10:28:17 -0400
1032 apt (0.5.12) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * Exclude subdirectories named 'debian-installer' from the apt-cdrom
1035 search (Closes: #210485 -- release-critical)
1037 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:48:14 -0400
1039 apt (0.5.11) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * Updated pt_BR translations from Andre Luis Lopes <andrelop@debian.org>
1043 * In apt.conf(5), give the fully qualified name of Dir::Bin::Methods,
1044 rather than just "methods"
1045 * Add new nb and nn translations from Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
1046 * Clean up reportbug script a bit, and extend it to distinguish between a
1047 configuration file not existing and the user declining to submit it with
1049 * Add #include <langinfo.h> to cmdline/apt-get.cc. This apparently gets
1050 pulled in by something else with recent g++ and/or glibc, but is
1051 required when building on, e.g., stable
1052 * Patch from Koblinger Egmont <egmont@uhulinux.hu> to fix version
1053 comparisons with '~' (Closes: #205960)
1054 * Disable Russian translation until someone can review it
1057 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:41:28 -0400
1059 apt (0.5.10) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * Correct the section in apt_preferences(5) on interpreting priorities
1062 to show that zero is not a valid priority, and print a warning if such
1063 a pin is encountered in the preferences file (Closes: #204971)
1064 * Regenerate French man pages from sgml source (Closes: #205886)
1065 * Get self-tests compiling again, updated for latest library API
1067 * Add version comparison tests for #194327 and #205960
1068 * Fix error message in version test to output versions in the order in
1069 which they were compared when the reverse comparison fails
1070 * Reference the source package bug page rather than the one for the
1071 binary package 'apt' in the man pages (Closes: #205290)
1072 * Updated Polish po file from Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>
1074 * Mention some of the available frontends in apt-get(8) (Closes: #205829)
1075 * Add apt-config to SEE ALSO section of apt-get (Closes: #205036)
1076 * Add missing "lang" attributes to refentry tags in French man pages
1077 (apt-cdrom, apt-extracttemplates, apt-sortpkgs)
1078 * Change upgraded/newly installed/not fully installed or removed
1079 messages to be consistent and somewhat shorter (some translations
1080 exceeded 80 characters even in the simplest case)
1081 * Make APT::Get::Show-Upgraded (aka apt-get -u) default to true.
1082 * Updates to Dutch translation from Bart Cornelis <cobaco@linux.be>
1085 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 31 Aug 2003 21:12:39 -0400
1087 apt (0.5.9) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * Oh well, apt isn't going to make it into testing anytime soon due to
1090 new glibc and gcc deps, so we might as well fix more bugs
1091 * Fix typo in example ftp-archive.conf (Closes: #203295)
1092 * Mention default setting for --all-versions (Closes: #203298)
1093 * Patch from Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> to have --version
1094 only print the version (and not usage as well) (Closes: #203418)
1095 * Patch from Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> to switch from
1096 dh_installmanpages to dh_installman. Fixes the problem where the
1097 pt_BR man page was installed in the wrong location (Closes: #194558)
1098 * Move the French apt-ftparchive man page into apt-utils where it
1099 belongs. apt-utils Replaces: apt (<< 0.5.9)
1100 * Write records from "apt-cache show" using fwrite(3) rather than
1101 write(2), in case for some reason the entire record doesn't get
1102 written by a single write(2)
1103 * Add new French man pages to doc/fr/.cvsignore
1104 * Add freebsd to buildlib/ostable (Closes: #193430)
1105 * Avoid segfault if a package name is specified which consists
1106 entirely of characters which look like end tags ('+', '-')
1108 * Patch from Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> to avoid listing
1109 suggests/recommends for packages which are selected for installation
1110 at the same time as the package which suggests/recommends them
1112 * Patch from Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> to avoid listing
1113 suggests/recommends which are Provided by a package which is already
1114 installed (Closes: #200395)
1115 * Patch to update pt_BR man page for apt_preferences(5) from Andre Luis
1116 Lopes <andrelop@debian.org> (Closes: #202245)
1117 * Use nl_langinfo(YESEXPR) rather than comparing to the translated
1118 string "Y". Closes: #200953 and should make the prompting generally
1119 more robust in the face of i18n. In the particular case of #200953,
1120 it was being fooled because of signedness issues with toupper(3)
1122 * apt Suggests: aptitude | synaptic | gnome-apt | wajig
1124 * Clean up whitespace in translated strings in ru.po, which messed up
1125 indentation (some other translations probably have similar problems)
1127 * Run ispell -h over the man page sources and fix a bunch of typos
1128 * Use debian/compat rather than DH_COMPAT
1129 * Update to debhelper compatibility level 3
1130 - remove ldconfig calls from debian/{postinst,postrm} as dh_makeshlibs
1132 - echo 3 > debian/compat
1133 - Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 3)
1134 * Exclude '.#*' from cvs-build
1135 * Let the ftp method work with ftp servers which do not require a
1136 password (Closes: #199425)
1137 * Build-depend on debhelper >= 4.1.62, because we need the fix for
1138 #204731 in order for dh_installman to work correctly
1139 with our SGML man pages
1140 * Move dh_makeshlibs ahead of dh_installdeb so that its postinst
1141 fragments are properly substituted
1143 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 10 Aug 2003 19:54:39 -0400
1145 apt (0.5.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1147 * urgency=medium because the changes since 0.5.5.1 are pretty safe as
1148 far as core functionality, 0.5.5.1 survived unstable for 10 days, and
1149 I don't want to delay apt's progress into testing any further. It's
1150 decidedly better than 0.5.4.
1151 * Clarify the meaning of the only-source option in apt-get(8)
1153 * Updated French man pages from Philippe Batailler
1154 <philippe.batailler@free.fr> (Closes: #182194)
1155 * Give a warning if an illegal type abbreviation is used when looking up a
1156 configuration item (Closes: #168453)
1157 * Improve build-depends handling of virtual packages even further, so that
1158 it will now also try to satisfy build-depends on virtual packages if they
1159 are not installed. Note that this only works if there is only one
1160 package providing the virtual package, as in other cases (Closes: #165404)
1161 * Update config.guess and config.sub from autotools-dev 20030717.1
1162 * Tweak SGML in apt-extracttemplates.1.sgml so that literal '>' doesn't end
1164 * Document SrcDirectory in apt-ftparchive.1.sgml (Closes: #156370)
1165 * Support TMPDIR in apt-extracttemplates (Closes: #191656)
1166 * Fix ru.po to use a capital letter for the translation of 'Y' so that
1167 YnPrompt works correctly (Closes: #200953). No other translations seem
1168 to have this problem
1169 * Regenerate POT file and sync .po files
1170 * Only try to clear stdin if it is a tty, to avoid looping if there is
1171 lots of stuff (perhaps an infinite amount) to read (Closes: #192228)
1173 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:21:53 -0400
1175 apt (0.5.7) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * Update control file to match overrides (apt priority important,
1178 libapt-pkg-dev section libdevel)
1179 * Silence the essential packages check if we are only downloading
1180 archives and not changing the system (Closes: #190862)
1181 * Skip version check if a build-dependency is provided by an installed package
1183 * Have apt-cache show exit with an error if it cannot find any of the
1184 specified packages (Closes: #101490)
1186 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Mon, 21 Jul 2003 23:43:24 -0400
1188 apt (0.5.6) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
1191 - Fix segfault when handling /etc/apt/preferences. Closes: #192409.
1192 * Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
1193 - Clean up some string handling, patch from Peter Lundkvist
1194 <p.lundkvist@telia.com> (Closes: #192225)
1195 - Don't fall off the end of the buffer when comparing versions.
1196 Patch from Koblinger Egmont <egmont@uhulinux.hu> (Closes: #194327)
1197 - Minor fixes to apt-ftparchive(1) (Closes: #118156)
1198 - Fix typo in apt-ftparchive help text (Closes: #119072)
1199 - More typos in apt-ftparchive help text (Closes: #190936)
1200 - Update config.guess, config.sub to latest versions
1201 - Modify the description for apt-utils to reflect the fact that it is not
1202 (any longer) infrequently used (Closes: #138045)
1203 - Make setup script for dselect method more explicit about
1204 overwriting sources.list (Closes: #151727)
1205 - Fix typo in apt-cache(8) (Closes: #161243)
1206 - Remove duplicate 'showpkg' from synopsis on apt-cache(8)
1208 - Document in apt-get(8) the meaning of the '*' in ShowList, which is that
1209 the package is being purged (Closes: #182369)
1210 - Fix extra "/" character in apt.conf(5) (Closes: #185545)
1211 - Fix typo in tar error message (Closes: #191424)
1212 - Clarify description of 'search' on apt-cache(8) (Closes: #192216)
1213 - Fix incorrect path for 'partial' directory on apt-get(8)
1215 - Fixes to pt_BR translation from Andre Luis Lopes <andrelop@ig.com.br>
1217 - Updated apt_preferences(5) man page with many corrections and
1218 clarifications from Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>
1220 - Fix SGML validation errors in apt-cache.8.sgml introduced in 0.5.5 or so
1221 - Add a simple example to apt-ftparchive(1) (Closes: #95257)
1222 - Add bug script for collecting configuration info (Closes: #176482)
1224 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Mon, 21 Jul 2003 01:59:43 -0400
1226 apt (0.5.5.1) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Move the target of the example docs from doc to binary. Closes:
1230 * Fix api breakage that broke apt-ftparchive and apt-cache dumpavail, by
1231 backing out change that incorretly attempted to handle Package sections
1232 larger than 32k. Closes: #192373
1233 * Fix never-ending loop with apt-get install -V. Closes: #192355.
1235 -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2003 12:30:16 -0500
1237 apt (0.5.5) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * New deb version compare function, that has no integer limits, and
1240 supports pre-versions using ~. Code ported from dpkg.
1241 * Fix handling of [!arch] for build-dependencies. Closes: #88798, #149595
1242 * Fix handling of build-deps on unknown packages. Closes: #88664, #153307
1243 * "apt-get --arch-only build-dep" to install only architecture-
1244 dependent build dependencies. Bump minor shared lib number to reflect
1245 small change in BuildDepend API.
1246 * APT::Build-Essential configuration option (defaults to "build-essential")
1247 so that "apt-get build-dep" will ensure build essential packages are
1248 installed prior to installing other build-dependencies. Closes: #148879
1249 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH thing. Closes: #109430, #147529
1250 * /usr/doc reference in postinst. Closes: #126189
1251 * Doc updates. Closes: #120689
1252 * Possible apt-cache segfault. Closes: #120311, #118431, #117915, #135295,
1254 * Print special message for EAI_AGAIN. Closes: #131397
1255 * libapt-pkg-dev needs to bring in the apt-inst library if linking
1256 is to work. Closes: #133943
1257 * Typos, Doc Stuff. Closes: #132772, #129970, #123642, #114892, #113786,
1258 #109591, #105920, #103678, #139752, #138186, #138054, #138050,
1259 #139994, #142955, #151654, #151834, #147611, #154268, #173971
1260 * Fix possibility for tag file parsing to fail in some unlikely situations.
1262 * Use std C++ names for some header files. Closes: #128741
1263 * Do not check for free space if --no-download. Closes: #117856
1264 * Actually implement or group handling for 'upgrade'. Closes: #133950
1265 * "Internal Error, Couldn't configure pre-depend" is not actually an
1266 internal error, it is a packaging error and now it says so, and
1267 pinpoints the problem dependency. Closes: #155621
1268 * Allows failure to write to a pipe for post-invoke stuff. Closes: #89830
1269 * Use usr/share/doc for dhelp. Closes: #115701
1270 * --print-uris works with 'update'. Closes: #57070
1271 * Options Dpkg::MaxArgs,Dpkg::MaxArgBytes to allow a much longer dpkg
1273 * Fixed 2 little OR group bugs, thanks to Yann Dirson. Closes: #143995,
1275 * Allow an uninstalled package to be marked for removal on an install
1276 line (meaning not to automatically install it), also fix some dodgy
1277 handling of protected packages. Closes: #92287, #116011
1278 * Fix errant prefix matching in version selection. Closes: #105968
1279 * Ensure that all files needed to run APT as a user are readable and
1280 ignore roots umask for these files. Closes: #108801
1281 * Support larger config spaces. Closes: #111914
1282 * 'apt-get update' no longer does 'Building Dependency Tree'.
1283 * When matching regexs allways print a message. Change regex activation
1284 charset. Closes: #147817
1285 * Don't die if lines in sources.list are too long. Closes: #146846
1286 * Show file name on apt-extracttemplate error messges. Closes: #151835
1287 * i18n gettext stuff, based on work from Michael Piefel: Closes: #95933
1288 * Some highly unlikely memory faults. Closes: #155842
1289 * C++ stuff for G++3.2. Closes: #162617, #165515,
1290 * apt-config dumps sends to stdout not stderr now. Closes: #146294
1291 * Fix segfault in FindAny when /i is used, and there is no default.
1293 * Add s390x to archtable. Closese: #160992.
1294 * Update config.sub/config.guess in cvs, and add support to debian/rules
1295 to update them from /usr/share/misc if they exist. Closes: #155014
1296 * Remove 'Sorry' from messages. Closes: #148824.
1297 * Change wording of 'additional disk space usage' message. Closes:
1299 * apt-extracttemplates now prepends the package name when extracting
1300 files. Closes: #132776
1301 * Add -n synonym for --names-only for apt-cache. Closes: #130689
1302 * Display both current version and new version in apt-get -s. Closes:
1304 * Add an options and timeout config item to ssh/rsh. Closes: #90654
1305 * libapt-pkg-dev now depends on apt-utils. Closes: #133942.
1306 * Change verbose logging output of apt-ftparchive to go to stderr,
1307 instead of stdout. Also, errors that occur no longer go to stdout,
1308 but stderr. Closes: #161592
1309 * Test for timegm in configure. Closes: #165516.
1310 * s/st_mtime/mtime/ on our local stat structure in apt-ftparchive, to
1311 support compliation on platforms where st_mtime is a macro. Closes:
1313 * Check the currently mounted cdrom, to see if it's the one we are
1314 interested in. Closes: #154602
1315 * Refer to reportbug instead of bug in the man pages. Closes: #173745
1316 * Link apt-inst to apt-pkg. Closes: #175055
1317 * New apt_preferences man page from Thomas Hood, Susan Kleinmann,
1319 * Fix > 300 col screen segfault. Closes: #176052
1320 * Rebuild with gcc-3.2. Closes: #177752, #178008.
1321 * Fix build-dep handling of | dependencies.
1322 Closes: #98640, #145997, #158896, #172901
1323 * Double default value of APT::Cache-Limit, until such time as it
1324 can be made more dynamic. Closes: #178623.
1325 * Report uris with '.gz' when there are errors. Closes: #178435.
1326 * When installing build-deps, make sure the new version will
1327 satisfy build requirements. Closes: #178121
1328 * Split offline and guide documentation into apt-doc. This was done so
1329 that binary-arch builds do not require documention deps. Note, that
1330 apt-doc is not installed on upgrades.
1331 * Use doc-base, instead of dhelp directly. Closes: #110389
1332 * Change http message 'Waiting for file' to 'Waiting for headers'.
1334 * Remove trailing lines on package lists in apt-get. Closes: #178736.
1335 * Fix origin pins for file:// uris. Closes: #189014.
1336 * Apply typo and syntax patch from bug to apt-cache.8.sgml. Closes:
1338 * s/dpkg-preconfig/dpkg-preconfigure/ in examples/configure-index.
1340 * Fix some typos in the apt-get manual. Closes: #163932.
1341 * Apply patch from bug, to change frozen to testing, and then do it
1342 everywhere else. Closes: #165085.
1343 * Update es.po. Closes: #183111.
1344 * Add pt_BR translation of apt_preferences(5). Also, build fr manpages.
1346 * Add a vcg command to apt-cache, similiar to dotty. Closes: #150512.
1347 * Add option to apt-get to show versions of packages being
1349 * Be quiet in apt.post{inst,rm}. Closes: #70685.
1350 * apt-get now prints out suggested and recommended packages. Closes:
1352 * Insert some newlines in the cdrom change media message. Closes:
1354 * Add a rdepends command to apt-cache. Closes: #159864.
1355 * When building the dpkg command line, allow for 8192 chars to be used,
1356 instead of only 1024.
1357 * APT::Immediate-Configure had inverted semantics(false meant it was
1358 enabled). Closes: #173619.
1359 * Fix status file parser so that if a record is larger than 32k, the
1360 buffer size will be doubled, and the read attempted again. Closes:
1363 -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Sun, 27 Apr 2003 01:23:12 -0500
1365 apt (0.5.4) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * M68k config.guess patch. Closes: #88913
1368 * Bi-yearly test on OpenBSD and Solaris
1369 * Doc updates. Closes: #89121, #89854, #99671, #98353, #95823, #93057,
1370 #97520, #102867, #101071, #102421, #101565, #98272, #106914,
1372 * Various cosmetic code updates. Closes: #89066, #89066, #89152
1373 * Add "pre-auto" as an option for DSelect::Clean (run autoclean after
1375 * More patches from Alfredo for Vendors and more SHA-1 stuff
1376 * Fix for AJ's 'desire to remove perl-5.005' and possibly other
1377 similar situations. Closes: #56708, #59432
1378 * no_proxy and ftp. Closes: #89671
1379 * Philippe Batailler's man page patches.
1380 * Fix for display bug. Closes: #92033, #93652, #98468
1381 * Use more than 16bits for the dep ID. Some people ran out..
1382 Closes: #103020, #97809, #102951, #99974, #107362, #107395, #107362,
1383 #106911, #107395, #108968
1384 * Reordered some things to make dante and FTP happier. Closes: #92757
1385 * James R. Van Zandt's guide.sgml updates. Closes: #90027
1386 * apt-ftparchive copes with no uncompressed package files + contents.
1387 * French man pages from philippe batailler - well sort of. They
1389 * run-parts. Closes: #94286
1390 * 'apt-cache policy' preferences debug tool.
1391 * Whatever. Closes: #89762
1392 * libstdc++ and HURD. Closes: #92025
1393 * More apt-utils verbage. Closes: #86954
1394 * Fliped comparision operator. Closes: #94618
1395 * Used the right copyright file. Closes: #65691
1396 * Randolph's G++3 patches.
1397 * Fixed no_proxy tokanizing. Closes: #100046
1398 * Strip Config-Version when copying status to available. Closes: #97520
1399 * Segfault with missing source files. Closes: #100325
1400 * EINTR check. Closes: #102293
1401 * Various changes to the locking metholodgy for --print-uris.
1403 * Lame LD_LIBRARY_PATH thing. Closes: #98928
1404 * apt-cache search searchs provide names too now. Closes: #98695
1405 * Checksum and long lines problem. Closes: #106591
1406 * .aptignr and empty files are just a warning. Closes: #97364
1408 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Sat, 18 Aug 2001 17:21:59 -0500
1410 apt (0.5.3) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * JoeyH's dpkg::preconfig not working. Closes: #88675
1413 * Fixed apt override disparity
1414 * Alfredo's SHA-1 and related patches
1416 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:39:43 -0700
1418 apt (0.5.2) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Fixed mention of /usr/doc in the long description
1421 * JoeyH's downgrade bug -- don't use 0.5.1
1422 * Doc bug. Closes: #88538
1423 * Fault in building release strings. Closes: #88533
1425 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:39:43 -0700
1427 apt (0.5.1) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * Fixed #82894 again, or should be and.
1430 * Process the option string right. Closes: #86921
1431 * Don't eat the last command for pipes. Closes: #86923
1432 * Ignore .* for configuration directory processing. Closes: #86923
1433 * Alfredo's no_proxy patch
1434 * Documentation fixes. Closes: #87091
1435 * JoeyH's double slash bug. Closes: #87266
1436 * Unintitialized buffer and apt-ftparchive contents generation.
1438 * Build-deps on virtual packages. Closes: #87639
1439 * Fixes glibc/libstdc++ symbol dependencies by including glibc and
1440 libstdc++ version info in the library soname and in the package
1441 provides. Closes: #87426
1442 * Updated soname version to 0.3.2
1443 * apt-extracttemplates moved from debconf into apt-utils
1444 * s390 archtable entry. Closes: #88232
1446 * Some instances where the status file can source a package in a
1447 non-sensical way. Closes: #87390
1448 * Work better if there are duplicate sources.list entries.
1449 * Fixed the resetting of Dir with "dir {};". Closes: #87323
1451 -- Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org> Sat, 3 Mar 2001 15:37:38 -0700
1453 apt (0.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Fixed an obscure bug with missing final double new lines in
1457 * Changed the apt-cdrom index copy routine to use the new section
1459 * Added a package file sorter, apt-sortpkgs
1460 * Parse obsolete Optional dependencies.
1461 * Added Ben's rsh method. Closes: #57794
1462 * Added IPv6 FTP support and better DNS rotation support.
1463 * Include the server IP in error messages when using a DNS rotation.
1465 * Made most of the byte counters into doubles to prevent 32bit overflow.
1467 * HTTP Authorization. Closes: #61158
1468 * Ability to parse and return source index build depends from Randolph.
1469 * new 'apt-get build-dep' command from Randolph. Closes: #63982
1470 * Added apt-ftparchive the all dancing all singing FTP archive
1472 * Allow version specifications with =1.2.4-3 and /2.2 or /stable postfixes
1474 * Removed useless internal cruft including the xstatus file.
1475 * Fixed config parser bugs. Closes: #67848, #71108
1476 * Brain Damanged apt-get config options changed, does not change the command
1477 line interface, except to allow --enable-* to undo a configuration
1480 No-Download -> Download
1481 No-Upgrade -> Upgrade
1482 * Made this fix configable (DSelect::CheckDir) and default to disabled:
1483 * No remove prompt if the archives dir has not changed. Closes: #55709
1484 Because it is stupid in the case where no files were downloaded due to
1485 a resumed-aborted install, or a full cache! Closes: #65952
1486 * Obscure divide by zero problem. Closes: #64394
1487 * Update sizetable for mips. Closes: #62288
1488 * Fixed a bug with passive FTP connections
1489 * Has sizetable entry for sparc64. Closes: #64869
1490 * Escape special characters in the ::Label section of the cdroms.lst
1491 * Created apt-utils and python-apt packages
1492 * Due to the new policy engine, the available file may contain entries
1493 from the status file. These are generated if the package is not obsolete
1494 but the policy engine prohibits using the version from the package files.
1495 They can be identified by the lack of a Filename field.
1496 * The new policy engine. Closes: #66509, #66944, #45122, #45094, #40006,
1497 #36223, #33468, #22551
1498 * Fixed deb-src line for non-us. Closes: #71501, #71601
1499 * Fixes for G++ 2.96, s/friend/friend class/
1500 * Fixed mis doc of APT::Get::Fix-Missing. Closes: #69269
1501 * Confirmed fix for missing new line problem. Closes: #69386
1502 * Fixed up dhelp files. Closes: #71312
1503 * Added some notes about dselect and offline usage. Closes: #66473, #38316
1504 * Lock files on read only file systems are ignored w/ warning.
1506 * apt-get update foo now gives an error! Closes: #42891
1507 * Added test for shlibs on hurd. Closes: #71499
1508 * Clarified apt-cache document. Closes: #71934
1509 * DocBook SGML man pages and some improvements in the text..
1510 * sigwinch thing. Closes: #72382
1511 * Caching can be turned off by setting the cache file names blank.
1512 * Ignores arches it does not know about when autocleaning. Closes: #72862
1513 * New function in apt-config to return dirs, files, bools and integers.
1514 * Fixed an odd litle bug in MarkInstall and fixed it up to handle
1515 complex cases involving OR groups and provides.
1516 68754 describes confusing messages which are the result of this..
1517 Closes: #63149, #69394, #68754, #77683, #66806, #81486, #78712
1518 * Speeling mistake and return code for the 'wicked' resolver error
1519 Closes: #72621, #75226, #77464
1520 * Solved unable to upgrade libc6 from potato to woody due to 3 package
1521 libc6 dependency loop problem.
1522 * Leading sources.list spaces. Closes: #76010
1523 * Removed a possible infinite loop while processing installations.
1524 * Man page updates. Closes: #75411, #75560, #64292, #78469
1525 * ReduceSourceList bug. Closes: #76027
1526 * --only-source option. Closes: #76320
1527 * Typos. Closes: #77812, #77999
1528 * Different status messages. Closes: #76652, #78353
1529 * /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ directory for Joey and Matt and pipe protocol 2
1530 * OS detection an support for the new pseduo standard of os-arch for the
1531 Architecture string. Also uses regexing.. Closes: #39227, #72349
1532 * Various i18n stuff. Note that this still needs some i18n wizard
1533 to do the last gettextization right. Closes: #62386
1534 * Fixed a problem with some odd http servers/proxies that did not return
1535 the content size in the header. Closes: #79878, #44379
1536 * Little acquire bugs. Closes: #77029, #55820
1537 * _POSIX_THREADS may not be defined to anything, just defined..
1539 * Spelling of Ignore-Hold correctly. Closes: #78042
1540 * Unlock the dpkg db if in download only mode. Closes: #84851
1541 * Brendan O'Dea's dselect admindir stuff. Closes: #62811
1542 * Patch from BenC. Closes: #80810
1543 * Single output of some names in lists. Closes: #80498, #43286
1544 * Nice message for people who can't read syserror output. Closes: #84734
1545 * OR search function. Closes: #82894
1546 * User's guide updates. Closes: #82469
1547 * The AJ/JoeyH var/state to var/lib transition patch. Closes: #59094
1548 * Various CD bugs, again thanks to Greenbush
1549 Closes: #80946, #76547, #71810, #70049, #69482
1550 * Using potato debhelper. Closes: #57977
1551 * I cannot self-terminate. Closes: #74928
1553 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Wed, 21 Feb 2001 00:39:15 -0500
1555 apt (0.3.19) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Updates to apt-cdrom to support integrated non-us nicely, thanks to
1559 * Fixed that apt-get/cdrom deadlock thing. Closes: #59853, #62945, #61976
1560 * Fixed hardcoded path. Closes: #59743
1561 * Fixed Jay's relative path bug
1562 * Allowed source only CDs. Closes: #58952
1563 * Space check is supressed if --print-uris is given. Closes: #58965
1564 * Clarified the documenation examples for non-us. Closes: #58646
1565 * Typo in the package description. Closes: #60230
1566 * Man Page typo. Closes: #60347
1567 * Typo in Algorithms.cc. Closes: #63577
1568 * Evil dotty function in apt-cache for generating dependency graphs
1569 with the as-yet-unpackaged GraphVis.
1570 * Appears to have been fixed in Janurary.. Closes: #57981
1571 * New config.guess/sub for the new archs. Closes: #60874
1572 * Fixed error reporting for certain kinds of resolution failures.
1574 * Made autoclean respect 'q' settings. Closes: #63023
1575 * Fixed up the example sources.list. Closes: #63676
1576 * Added DPkg::FlushSTDIN to control the flushing of stdin before
1577 forking dpkg. Closes: #63991
1579 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Fri, 12 May 2000 21:10:54 -0700
1581 apt (0.3.18) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1583 * Changes in the postinst script. Closes: #56855, #57237
1584 * Fixed bashism. Closes: #57216, #57335
1585 * Doc updates. Closes: #57772, #57069, #57331, #57833, #57896
1587 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Sun, 13 Feb 2000 01:52:31 -0800
1589 apt (0.3.17) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * RFC 2732 usage for CDROM URIs and fixes to apt-cdrom
1592 * Fixed the configuration parser to not blow up if ; is in the config
1594 * Applied visual patch to dselect install script . Closes #55214
1595 * Included the configure-index example
1597 * Library soname has increased
1598 * Fixed default sources.list to have correct URLs for potato when it
1600 * Added a message about erasing sources.list to dselect setup script
1602 * No remove prompt if the archives dir has not changed. Closes: #55709
1603 * Fixed inclusion of 2nd sample config file. Closes: #55374
1604 * Made file mtimes of 0 not confuse the methods If-Modifed-Since check.
1607 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Mon, 31 Jan 2000 12:12:40 -0800
1609 apt (0.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * Made --no-download work. Closes: #52993
1612 * Now compiles on OpenBSD, Solaris and HP-UX
1613 * Clarify segfault errors
1614 * More debhelper fixes. Closes: #52662, #54566, #52090, #53531, #54769
1615 * Fix for Joel's discovery of glibc removal behavoir.
1616 * Fix for Ben Collins file: uri from slink upgrade.
1617 * Fixed resume code in FTP. Closes: #54323
1618 * Take more precautions to prevent the corruption Joey Hess saw.
1619 * Fixed --no-list-cleanup
1620 * RFC 2732 URI parsing ([] for hostnames).
1621 * Typo in apt-cache man page. Closes: #54949
1623 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jan 2000 08:04:15 -0800
1625 apt (0.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * Added DSelect::WaitAfterDownload Closes: #49549
1628 * Fixed cast error in byteswap macro and supporting code. Closes: #50093
1629 * Fixed buffer overflow for wide terminal sizes. Closes: #50295
1630 * Made -s and clean not do anything. Closes: #50238
1631 * Problem with Protected packages and the new OR code.
1632 * /usr/share/doc stuff. Closes: #51017, #50228, #51141
1633 * Remove doesn't require a package to be installable. Closes: #51175
1634 * FTP proxy touch ups in the mabn page. Closes: #51315, #51314
1636 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Sat, 4 Dec 1999 21:17:24 -0800
1638 apt (0.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * Fix Perl or group pre-depends thing Closes: #46091, #46096, #46233, #45901
1641 * Fix handling of dpkg's conversions from < -> <= Closes: #46094, #47088
1642 * Make unparsable priorities non-fatal Closes: #46266, #46267, #46293, #46298
1643 * Fix handling of '/' for the dist name. Closes: #43830, #45640, #45692
1644 * Fixed 'Method gave a blank filename' error from IMS queries onto CDs.
1645 Closes: #45034, #45695, #46537
1646 * Made OR group handling in the problem resolver more elaborate. Closes: #45646
1647 * Added APT::Clean-Installed option. Closes: #45973
1648 * Moves the free space check to after the calculated size is printed.
1649 Closes: #46639, #47498
1650 * mipsel arch Closes: #47614
1651 * Beautified URI printing to not include passwords Closes: #46857
1652 * Fixed little problem with --no-download Closes: #47557
1653 * Tweaked Dselect 'update' script to re-gen the avail file even in the
1654 event of a failure Closes: #47112
1655 * Retries for source archives too Closes: #47529
1656 * Unmounts CDROMs iff it mounted them Closes: #45299
1657 * Checks for the partial directories before doing downloads Closes: #47392
1658 * no_proxy environment variable (http only!) Closes: #43476
1659 * apt-cache showsrc Closes: #45799
1660 * De-Refs Single Pure virtual packages. Closes: #42437, #43555
1661 * Regexs for install. Closes: #35304, #38835
1662 * Dependency reports now show OR group relations
1663 * Re-Install feature. Cloes: #46961, #37393, #38919
1664 * Locks archive directory on clean (woops)
1665 * Remove is not 'sticky'. Closes: #48392
1666 * Slightly more accurate 'can not find package' message. Closes: #48311
1667 * --trivial-only and --no-remove. Closes: #48518
1668 * Increased the cache size. Closes: #47648
1669 * Comment woopsie. Closes: #48789
1670 * Removes existing links when linking sources. Closes: #48775
1671 * Problem resolver does not install all virtual packages. Closes: #48591, #49252
1672 * Clearer usage message about 'source' Closes: #48858
1673 * Immediate configure internal error Closes: #49062, #48884
1675 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Sun, 7 Nov 1999 20:21:25 -0800
1677 apt (0.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * Fix timestamp miss in FTP. Closes: #44363
1680 * Fix sorting of Kept packages. Closes: #44377
1681 * Fix Segfault for dselect-upgrade. Closes: #44436
1682 * Fix handling of '/' for the dist name. Closes #43830
1683 * Added APT::Get::Diff-Only and Tar-Only options. Closes #44384
1684 * Add commented-out deb-src URI to default sources.list file.
1686 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Sun, 19 Sep 1999 18:54:20 -0700
1688 apt (0.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * Fix for typo in the dhelp index. Closes: #40377
1691 * Multiple media swap support
1692 * Purge support. Closes: #33291, #40694
1693 * Better handling of - remove notation. Closes: #41024
1694 * Purge support. Closes: #33291, #40694
1695 * Error code on failed update. Closes: #41053
1696 * apt-cdrom adds entries for source directories. Closes: #41231
1697 * Sorts the output of any list. Closes: #41107
1698 * Fixes the looping problem. Closes: #41784, #42414, #44022
1699 * Fixes the CRC mechanism to lowercase all strings. Closes: #41839
1700 * More checks to keep the display sane. Particularly when fail-over is
1701 used with local mirrors and CD-Roms. Closes: #42127, #43130, #43668
1702 * PThread lockup problem on certain sparc/m68k. Closes: #40628
1703 * apt-cdrom understands .gz Package files too. Closes: #42779
1704 * Spelling error in dselect method description. Closes: #43251
1705 * Added security to the default source list. Closes: #43356
1707 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 09:04:28 -0700
1709 apt (0.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * Fix for mis-parsed file: URIs. Closes: #40373, #40366, #40230
1712 * Fix for properly upgrading the system from perl 5.004 to 5.005
1714 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:06:44 -0700
1716 apt (0.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Spelling error in cachefile.cc. Closes: #39885
1719 * Trailing slash in dselect install if you try to use the
1720 default config file. Closes: #40011
1721 * Simulate works for autoclean. Closes: #39141
1722 * Fixed spelling errors. Closes: #39673
1723 * Changed url parsing a bit. Closes: #40070, #40069
1724 * Version 0.3.8 will be for slink/hamm (GNU libc 2).
1726 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:02:52 -0700
1728 apt (0.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * Fixed missing text in the apt-get(8) page. Closes: #37596
1731 * Made --simulate and friends work with apt-get source. Closes: #37597, #37656
1732 * Fixed inclusion of man pages in the -doc/-dev package. Closes: #37633, #38651
1733 * Fixed handling of the -q option with not-entirely integer arguments
1735 * Man page typo Closes: #37762
1736 * Fixed parsing of the Source: line. Closes: #37679
1737 * Dpkg/dpkg-hurd source bug. Closes: #38004, #38032
1738 * Added a check for an empty cache directory. Closes: #37963
1739 * Return a failure code if -d is given and packages fail to download.
1741 * Arranged for an ftp proxy specifing an http server to work. See the
1742 important note in the sources.list man page.
1743 * Accounted for resumed files in the cps calculation. Closes: #36787
1744 * Deal with duplicate same version different packages. Closes: #30237
1745 * Added --no-download. Closes: #38095
1746 * Order of apt-cdrom dist detection. Closes: #38139
1747 * Fix apt-cdrom chop handling and missing lines. Closes: #37276
1749 * Suggests dpkg-dev for apt-get source. Closes: #38158
1750 * Fixed typo in apt-get help. Closes: #38712
1751 * Improved the error message in the case of broken held package. Closes: #38777
1752 * Fixed handling of MD5 failures
1753 * Documented list notation Closes: #39008
1754 * Change the 'b' to 'B'. Closes: #39007
1756 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jun 1999 18:36:20 -0700
1758 apt (0.3.6) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Note that 0.3.5 never made it out the door..
1761 * Fix for apt-cdrom and unusual disk label locations. Closes: #35571
1762 * Made APT print numbers in decimal. Closes: #35617, #37319
1763 * Buffer munching fix for FTP. Closes: #35868
1764 * Typo in sample config file. Closes: #35907
1765 * Fixed whitespace in version compares. Closes: #35968, #36283, #37051
1766 * Changed installed size counter to only count unpacked packages.
1768 * apt-get source support. Closes: #23934, #27190
1769 * Renames .debs that fail MD5 checking, provides automatic corruption
1770 recovery. Closes: #35931
1771 * Fixed autoconf verison. Closes: #37305
1772 * Random Segfaulting. Closes: #37312, #37530
1773 * Fixed apt-cache man page. Closes: #36904
1774 * Added a newline to apt-cache showpkg. Closes: #36903
1776 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 09:18:49 -0700
1778 apt (0.3.4) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * Release for Ben while he is out of town.
1781 * Checked the size of partial files. Closes: #33705
1782 * apt-get should not print progress on non-tty. Closes: #34944
1783 * s/guide.text.gz/users-guide.txt.gz/ debian/control: Closes: #35207
1784 * Applied cdrom patches from Torsten. Closes: #35140, #35141
1785 * smbmounted cdrom fix. Closes: #35470
1786 * Changed ie to eg. Closes: #35196
1788 -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 18:26:44 -0500
1790 apt (0.3.3) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * Fixes bug with file:/ URIs and multi-CD handling. Closes: #34923
1794 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:15:44 -0800
1796 apt (0.3.2) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * Major release into unstable of v3
1799 * These bugs have been fixed, explanations are in the bug system, read
1800 the man pages as well..
1801 Closes: #21113, #22507, #22675, #22836, #22892, #32883, #33006, #34121,
1802 #23984, #24685, #24799, #25001, #25019, #34223, #34296, #34355,
1803 #24021, #25022, #25026, #25104, #25176, #31557, #31691, #31853,
1804 #25458, #26019, #26433, #26592, #26670, #27100, #27100, #27601,
1805 #28184, #28391, #28778, #29293, #29351, #27841, #28172, #30260,
1806 #29382, #29441, #29903, #29920, #29983, #30027, #30076, #30112,
1807 #31009, #31155, #31381, #31883, #32140, #32395, #32584. #34465,
1808 #30383, #30441, #30472, #30643, #30827, #30324, #36425, #34596
1810 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Mon, 15 Mar 1999 19:14:25 -0800
1812 apt (0.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
1814 * Minor release of cvs version.
1815 * Added virtual package libapt-pkgx.x
1817 -- Mitch Blevins <mblevin@debian.org> Wed, 10 Mar 1999 07:52:44 -0500
1819 apt (0.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
1821 * New experimental version.
1823 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Tue, 15 Dec 1998 12:53:21 -0800
1825 apt (0.1.9) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Return to the wacky numbering for when we build 0.1.8 for hamm
1828 * Important bug related to APT on the Alpha fixed
1829 * apt-get dist-upgrade problems fixed
1830 * tiny patch for http method to fix an endless loop
1831 * nice fix from /usr/doc/lintian/ to remove rpath nastiness from
1832 libtool and add proper shared lib dependancies
1833 * now dh_shlibdeps is called with LD_LIBRARY_PATH=debian/tmp/usr/lib
1834 in case an old libpkg is installed while building APT to prevent
1835 spurious dependancies
1837 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Thu, 5 Nov 1998 17:43:25 -0800
1839 apt (0.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * New build with libstdc++2.9.
1842 * Various fixes; read the Changelog.
1844 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Thu, 15 Oct 1998 18:29:18 -0700
1846 apt (0.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * Various fixes in the FTP method for error checking. Fixes: #26188.
1849 * Spelling corrections in dselect method. Fixes: #25884
1850 * Fixes for compilation on alpha/ppc. Fixes: #25313, #26108.
1851 * No more bo releases: we're using a normal numbering system now.
1853 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 19:27:13 -0700
1855 apt (0.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * Changed sources.list to point to 'unstable' by default, as
1858 'frozen' no longer exists!
1860 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 1998 22:00:18 -0700
1862 apt (0.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * New upstreamish version.
1865 * ftp method rewritten in C. Removes dependancies on all perl/perl
1866 related modules. This fixes many of the ftp method bugs.
1868 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 22:19:00 -0700
1870 apt (0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * Release for unstable.
1874 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 1998 20:48:30 -0700
1876 apt (0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * Kludge to fix problem in libnet-perl with illegal anonymous
1880 * Moved to unstable; apt is in a useable state now.
1881 * Fixed version numbering. From now on, numbering will be:
1882 0.1 (no actual release) -> 0.1.0bo (release for libc5) ->
1883 0.1.1 (release for unstable). Thanks, Manoj.
1885 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 1998 20:40:58 -0700
1887 apt (0.0.17-1) experimental; urgency=low
1889 * Fixed problem with libc6 version compare
1890 * Scott's away for a while, so I'll be packaging apt for the time
1893 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jun 1998 19:02:03 -0700
1895 apt (0.0.16-1) experimental; urgency=low
1897 * Modifications to make apt-get more friendly when backgrounded.
1898 * Updated documentation.
1899 * Updates to graphic widgets
1901 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Mon, 8 Jun 1998 11:22:02 -0400
1903 apt (0.0.15-0.2bo) experimental; urgency=low
1906 * Bob Hilliards crash
1908 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Sun, 31 May 1998 20:18:35 -0600
1910 apt (0.0.15-0.1bo) experimental; urgency=low
1913 * libstdc++272 patch
1915 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Sun, 31 May 1998 20:18:35 -0600
1917 apt (0.0.15) experimental; urgency=low
1919 * Clean up source tarball (no user-visible changes)
1921 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Tue, 26 May 1998 12:23:53 -0400
1923 apt (0.0.14) experimental; urgency=low
1925 * Updates in ordering code to make sure certain upgrades work correctly.
1926 * Made dselect/setup understand ftp as well as http
1928 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Wed, 20 May 1998 13:33:32 -0400
1930 apt (0.0.13-bo1) experimental; urgency=low
1934 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 1998 15:10:49 -0600
1936 apt (0.0.13) experimental; urgency=low
1938 * Remove hardcoded egcc from debian/rules (#21575)
1939 * Fixes for ordering logic when system has a number of unpacked
1940 but unconfigured packages installed.
1941 * Spelling fix in dselect install method (#22556)
1943 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 20:08:33 -0400
1945 apt (0.0.12) experimental; urgency=low
1947 * Fixed problems with package cache corruption.
1948 * Made to depend on libc6 >= 2.0.7pre1 due to timezone problems with
1950 * Interface and documentation improvements.
1952 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Sat, 16 May 1998 23:17:32 -0400
1954 apt (0.0.11) experimental; urgency=low
1956 * Change dependancies to pre-depends since breaking your packaging tools
1957 in the middle of an installation isn't very good.
1958 * Bug fixes to ftp method and general apt-get code
1960 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Fri, 15 May 1998 08:57:38 -0400
1962 apt (0.0.10) experimental; urgency=low
1964 * Run "dpkg --configure -a" after an aborted dselect install
1965 * Fixed problem with install looping
1966 * Support for authenticating proxys: (note this isn't terribly secure)
1967 http_proxy="http://user:pass@firewall:port/"
1968 * Substitute $ARCH in sources.list
1969 * Fixes in the resumption code for ftp
1971 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 1998 09:14:41 -0400
1973 apt (0.0.9) experimental; urgency=low
1975 * Added ftp support.
1976 * Various other less visible bug fixes.
1977 * Fixed problem with segfault when apt-get invoked in a non-existant
1978 directory (Bug #21863)
1979 * Bumped policy to 2.4.1
1981 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Fri, 1 May 1998 09:18:19 -0400
1983 apt (0.0.8) experimental; urgency=low
1985 * Fixed generated available file (Bug #21836)
1986 * Added download ETA (Bug #21774).
1987 * Fixed hardcoded ARCH (Bug #21751).
1988 * Fixed check on http_proxy (Bug #21795).
1989 * Added download speed indicator.
1991 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:58:32 -0400
1993 apt (0.0.7) experimental; urgency=low
1995 * Remove libdeity and apt from package for now, since only apt-get and
1996 apt-cache are actually useful right now.
1997 * Clean up handling of package installation errors.
1998 * Added timeout to http transfers (#21269)
1999 * Updated setup for dselect/apt method.
2001 * Long options (added in 0.0.6)
2003 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Tue, 21 Apr 1998 09:06:49 -0400
2005 apt (0.0.6) experimental; urgency=low
2008 * Revamped download status display.
2009 * Call apt-get clean after successful install in dselect.
2010 * Added "apt-get clean" which deletes package files from /var/cache/apt
2012 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 15:13:59 -0400
2014 apt (0.0.5) experimental; urgency=low
2016 * Ignore signals while dpkg is running so we don't leave dpkg running in
2017 the background (#20804)
2018 * Check Packages as well as Packages.gz for file URIs (#20784)
2019 * Spelling cleanup (#20800)
2020 * Added -m option to permit upgrade to go on in the case of a bad mirror.
2021 This option may result in incomplete upgrades when used with -f.
2023 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Tue, 7 Apr 1998 12:40:29 -0400
2025 apt (0.0.4) experimental; urgency=low
2028 * Various documentation updates and cleanup.
2029 * Added '-f' option to apt-get attempt to fix broken dependancies.
2031 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Sat, 4 Apr 1998 14:36:00 -0500
2033 apt (0.0.3) experimental; urgency=low
2035 * Added a shlibs.local file to prevent apt from depending on itself.
2036 * Updates to how apt-get handles bad states in installed packages.
2037 * Updated rules to make sure build works from a freshly checked out source
2038 archive. Building from CVS needs libtool/automake/autoconf, builds from
2039 the distributed source package should have no such dependancy.
2041 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Fri, 3 Apr 1998 11:49:47 -0500
2043 apt (0.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * Updates to apt-get and http binding for dselect method (apt).
2046 * Updating version number from 0.0.1, which was released only on IRC.
2048 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Fri, 3 Apr 1998 00:35:18 -0500
2050 apt (0.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2054 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 12:49:28 -0500