Changelog
dpkg (1.15.4) unstable; urgency=low
[ Guillem Jover ]
* Call _g instead of g_ in dpkg-name.
* Fix inverted logic when deciding to assume the architecture in dpkg-name
when the package didn't have such field.
* Do not take into account Revision and Package_Revision fields in dpkg-name
and dpkg-scanpackages as they have been handled already by “dpkg-deb -I”.
* Switch dpkg-scansources to use Dpkg::Cdata instead of duplicating the
.dsc parsing code. As a side effect it now handles properly bogus files.
* Do not remap obsolete fields in dpkg-scanpackages as they have been
handled already by “dpkg-deb -I”.
* Properly mark packages being purged for disappearance from the database.
This will make the status database not be left behind with traces of old
not-installed packages. Closes: #472208
* On parse mark not-installed leftover packages for automatic removal from
the database on next dump. This obsoletes the --forget-old-unavail option,
thus making it now a no-op. Closes: #33394, #429262
* Document “hold” under package selection states instead of flags in dpkg(1).
* Remove trailing ‘/’ and ‘/.’ from the directory name to be used as the
package name on “dpkg-deb -b”. Closes: #218018, #373602
* Remove obsolete ‘hold’ and ‘hold-reinstreq’ internal status flags.
* Add fakeroot to dpkg-dev Recommends. Closes: #536821
* Fix an always false test when trying to decide which package to deselect
to resolve a dependency problem in dselect.
* Add uClibc Linux support to ostable and triplettable. Closes: #455501
* Add uClinux support to ostable and triplettable.
Thanks to Simon Richter <email address hidden>.
* When aborting due to file conflicts print the version of the conflicted
package. Closes: #540019
* Remove double slash in database path visible to the user in some error
conditions.
* Stop macthing sparc64-*-* GNU triplets with sparc Debian architecture.
* Add support for config.d style directories in dpkg and dselect,
(/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d and /etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg.d respectively).
* Define DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_ARCH on the maintainer script environment to the
architecture the package got built for.
* Document DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE maintainer script environment variable
in dpkg man page.
* Document DPKG_RUNNING_VERSION maintainer script environment variable
in dpkg man page.
* Change po4a usage to not create unwated changes depending if doing out or
in-tree builds.
* Use po4a “--previous” support when updating the man pages.
Suggested by Christian Perrier <email address hidden>.
* On configuration error print file name and line number.
* Allow quoting values in configuration file options.
* Add new --pre-invoke and --post-invoke hooks in dpkg.
* Add new --control-path command to dpkg-query.
* Use ohshit on bad version syntax in --compare-versions.
* Add Multi-Arch to the list of known binary package fields for dpkg-dev.
Thanks to Steve Langasek <email address hidden>.
[ Raphael Hertzog ]
* Replace install-info by a wrapper around GNU's install-info. The wrapper
will be dropped in squeeze+1. dpkg now Breaks: old versions of
info-browsers that do not depend on the new install-info package
that provides the real functionality. Closes: #9771, #523980
See http://wiki.debian.org/Transitions/DpkgToGnuInstallInfo for details.
* Fix dpkg's preinst in case /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives contains unexpected
sub-directories. Closes: #535138
And also when one of the file doesn't contain correct alternatives
information (improper number of lines). Closes: #537558
* Upgrade Standards-Version to 3.8.2 (no changes).
* Update deb-substvars(5) to list fields that do not support substvars.
Closes: #535353
* Fix dpkg-parsechangelog to include all entries with -v0 parameter.
Closes: #537800
* Fix update-alternatives to mention the correct slave link that can't
be installed due to a conflicting file instead of quoting the master link.
* Add support for extra override file in dpkg-scanpackages. Thanks to Robert
Millan for the patch. Closes: #537559
* Add support for extra override file in dpkg-scansources.
* Document format of extra override file in a new manual page
deb-extra-override(5).
* Update sample in dpkg-gensymbols(1) to give an accurate listing of
64 bit arches. Thanks to Julien Cristau for the patch. Closes: #540382
* Create /etc/cron.daily/dpkg to handle the backup of
/var/lib/dpkg/status in /var/backups. This is taken out of the cron
package and need no conflicts/breaks as the code does nothing if
the current status file is already backupped. Thanks to Leo 'costela'
Antunes <email address hidden> for the patch. Closes: #541412
* Change behaviour of dpkg --merge-avail to not update a package's
information if the version provided is older than the one already listed
in the available file. Thanks to Ian Jackson
<email address hidden> for the patch. Closes: #496114
* dpkg-architecture can now export DEB_{HOST,BUILD}_ARCH_{BITS,ENDIAN}
(pointer size and endianness):
- cputable (in dpkg) modified to contain those information
- dpkg-dev depends on dpkg (>= 1.15.4) to ensure that we have an updated
cputable (and so that a versioned build-dependency on dpkg-dev is enough
to use this new feature)
Closes: #531307
* Split overly long Binary: field values over multiple lines. This is
allowed since policy 3.8.3. Closes: #494714
* Improve performance of dpkg-shlibdeps by caching minimal version
associated to each library in Dpkg::Shlib::SymbolFile. Thanks to
Jiří Paleček <email address hidden> for the patch.
* Slightly improve dpkg-source(1) by giving the section name that we're
referring to. Closes: #544037
* Fix translation error in german manpage of dpkg-buildpackage. Thanks
to Joachim Breitner <email address hidden>. Closes: #541829
[ Modestas Vainius ]
* Provide a meaningful label for dpkg-gensymbols diff.
[ Updated dpkg translations ]
* Asturian (Marcos Alvarez Costales). Closes: #535327
* French (Christian Perrier).
* German (Sven Joachim).
* Italian (Milo Casagrande). Closes: #536538
* Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #542254
* Slovak (Ivan Masár). Closes: #537742
* Swedish (Peter Krefting).
[ Updated dselect translations ]
* Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #542254
* Slovak (Ivan Masár). Closes: #537741
[ Updated man page translations ]
* French (Christian Perrier).
* German (Helge Kreutzmann), proofread by Jens Seidel.
* Swedish (Peter Krefting).
[ Updated scripts translations ]
* French completed (Christian Perrier).
* German (Helge Kreutzmann).
* Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #542254
* Swedish (Peter Krefting).
-- Guillem Jover <email address hidden> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:37:45 +0200
