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
Thanks to Guillaume Delacour for spotting it.
+ - Updated apt.conf(5) manpgae French translation.
+ Thanks to Aurélien Couderc.
* Translations:
- fr.po
- sk.po. Closes: #525857
- fr.po
- it.po. Closes: #531758
- ca.po. Closes: #531921
+ - de.po. Closes: #536430
* Added translations
- ast.po (Asturian by Marcos Alvareez Costales).
- Closes: #529007, #529730
+ Closes: #529007, #529730, #535328
[ David Kalnischkies ]
* [ABI break] support '#' in apt.conf and /etc/apt/preferences
(closes: #189866)
+ * [ABI break] Allow pinning by codename (closes: #97564)
+ * support running "--simulate" as user
+ * add depth information to the debug output and show what depends
+ type triggers a autoinst (closes: #458389)
+ * add Debug::pkgDepCache::Marker with more detailed debug output
+ (closes: #87520)
+ * add Debug::pkgProblemResolver::ShowScores and make the scores
+ adjustable
+ * do not write state file in simulate mode (closes: #433007)
+ * 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
- -- Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:13:54 +0200
+ [ Michael Vogt ]
+ * 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)
+
+ [ Julian Andres Klode ]
+ * apt-pkg/contrib/configuration.cc: Fix a small memory leak in
+ ReadConfigFile.
+ * Introduce support for the Enhances field. (Closes: #137583)
+ * Support /etc/apt/preferences.d, by adding ReadPinDir() (Closes: #535512)
+ * configure-index: document Dir::Etc::SourceParts and some other options
+ (Closes: #459605)
+ * Remove Eugene V. Lyubimkin from uploaders as requested.
+ * apt-pkg/contrib/hashes.cc, apt-pkg/contrib/md5.cc:
+ - 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