-apt (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=medium
+apt (1.2~exp1) experimental; urgency=medium
- After packages are successfully installed by apt(1),
+ [ Automatic removal of debs after install ]
+ After packages are successfully installed by apt(8),
the corresponding .deb package files will be
removed from the /var/cache/apt/archives cache directory.
This can be changed by setting the apt configuration option
- "APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages" to "true". E.g:
+ "Binary::apt::APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages" to "true". E.g:
- # echo 'APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages "true";' \
+ # echo 'Binary::apt::APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages "true";' \
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01keep-debs
Please note that the behavior of apt-get is unchanged. The
downloaded debs will be kept in the cache directory after they
- are installed.
+ are installed. To enable the behavior for other tools, you can set
+ "APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages" to false.
+
+ [ Compressed indices ]
+ If you use Acquire::gzipIndexes, or any other compressed index targets,
+ those will now be compressed with the fastest supported algorithm,
+ currently lz4.
-- Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:22:16 +0100