apt (0.7.22) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+ The 'not dead yet' release
+
[ Christian Perrier ]
* Documentation translations:
- Fix a typo in apt-get(8) French translation. Closes: #525043
* add Debug::pkgProblemResolver::ShowScores and make the scores
adjustable
* do not write state file in simulate mode (closes: #433007)
- * add hook for auto-install (closes: #470035)
- * support IsAutoInstallOk in the resolver too
+ * add hook for MarkInstall and MarkDelete (closes: #470035)
* fix typo in apt-pkg/acquire.cc which prevents Dl-Limit to work
correctly when downloading from multiple sites (Closes: #534752)
+ * add the various foldmarkers in apt-pkg & cmdline (no code change)
+ * versions with a pin of -1 shouldn't be a candidate (Closes: #355237)
+ * prefer mmap as memory allocator in MMap instead of a static char
+ array which can (at least in theory) grow dynamic
+ * eliminate (hopefully all) segfaults in pkgcachegen.cc and mmap.cc
+ which can arise if cache doesn't fit into the mmap (Closes: #535218)
+ * display warnings instead of errors if the parts dirs doesn't exist
[ Michael Vogt ]
- * honor the dpkg hold state in AutoInstOk (closes: #64141)
+ * honor the dpkg hold state in new Marker hooks (closes: #64141)
* debian/apt.cron.daily:
- if the timestamp is too far in the future, delete it
-
+ * apt-pkg/acquire.cc:
+ - make the max pipeline depth of the acquire queue configurable
+ via Acquire::Max-Pipeline-Depth
+ * apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc:
+ - add Dpkg::UseIoNice boolean option to run dpkg with ionice -c3
+ (off by default)
+ - send "dpkg-exec" message on the status fd when dpkg is run
+ - provide DPkg::Chroot-Directory config option (useful for testing)
+ - fix potential hang when in a backgroud process group
+ * apt-pkg/algorithms.cc:
+ - consider recommends when making the scores for the problem
+ resolver
+ * apt-pkg/acquire-worker.cc:
+ - show error details of failed methods
+ * apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc:
+ - if a process aborts with signal, show signal number
+ * methods/http.cc:
+ - ignore SIGPIPE, we deal with EPIPE from write in
+ HttpMethod::ServerDie() (LP: #385144)
+ * Only run Download-Upgradable and Unattended-Upgrades if the initial
+ update was successful Closes: #341970
+ * apt-pkg/indexcopy.cc:
+ - support having CDs with no Packages file (just a Packages.gz)
+ by not forcing a verification on non-existing files
+ (LP: #255545)
+ - remove the gettext from a string that consists entirely
+ of variables (LP: #56792)
+ * apt-pkg/cacheiterators.h:
+ - add missing checks for Owner == 0 in end()
+ * apt-pkg/indexrecords.cc:
+ - fix some i18n issues
+ * apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.h:
+ - add new strprintf() function to make i18n strings easier
+ - fix compiler warning
+ * apt-pkg/deb/debsystem.cc:
+ - make strings i18n able
+ * fix problematic use of tolower() when calculating the version
+ hash by using locale independant tolower_ascii() function.
+ Thanks to M. Vefa Bicakci (LP: #80248)
+ * build fixes for g++-4.4
+ * cmdline/apt-mark:
+ - add "showauto" option to show automatically installed packages
+ * document --install-recommends and --no-install-recommends
+ (thanks to Dereck Wonnacott, LP: #126180)
+ * doc/apt.conf.5.xml:
+ - merged patch from Aurélien Couderc to improve the text
+ (thanks!)
+ * [ABI] merged the libudev-dlopen branch, this allows to pass
+ "apt-udev-auto" to Acquire::Cdrom::mount and the cdrom method will
+ dynamically find/mount the cdrom device (if libhal is available)
+
[ Julian Andres Klode ]
* apt-pkg/contrib/configuration.cc: Fix a small memory leak in
ReadConfigFile.
- Support reading until EOF if Size=0 to match behaviour of
SHA1Summation and SHA256Summation
+ [ Osamu Aoki ]
+ * Updated cron script to support backups by hardlinks and
+ verbose levels. All features turned off by default.
+ * Added more error handlings. Closes: #438803, #462734, #454989,
+ * Documented all cron script related configuration items in
+ configure-index.
+
+ [ Dereck Wonnacott ]
+ * apt-ftparchive might write corrupt Release files (LP: #46439)
+ * Apply --important option to apt-cache depends (LP: #16947)
+
-- Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:27:35 +0200
apt (0.7.21) unstable; urgency=low