Changelog
dpkg (1.18.4) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Guillem Jover ]
* Switch dpkg-scansources and dpkg-scanpackages to use File::Find instead
of find(1), as the former is more portable with more consistent behavior,
and always canonicalizes the pathnames. Closes: #800649
* Initialize Config-Version also for packages previously in triggers-pending
state, otherwise we end up not passing the previously configured version
to «postinst configure», which might consider this a first install instead
of an upgrade. Closes: #801156
* Fix memory leaks in «dpkg --verify» and dpkg infodb format upgrade logic.
* Merge all update-alternatives action handling into a single if-else-if
block, to unify the code an allow a future switch into a shared library.
* Perform any necessary cleanups on normal exit from dpkg-divert --add and
--remove commands.
* Make dpkg-architecture warning on non-matching GNU system type compiler
agnostic.
* Add ‘.gitreview’ to the default dpkg-source ignore lists.
* Add support for DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_DEBUG environment variable to dpkg.
* Fix dpkg-checkbuilddeps exit code to be 1 instead of a random error value
on unsatisfied dependencies. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.18.3.
* Fix an off-by-one write access in dpkg-deb when parsing the old format
.deb control member size. Thanks to Hanno Böck <email address hidden>.
Fixes CVE-2015-0860.
* Fix an off-by-one read access in dpkg-deb when parsing ar member names.
Thanks to Hanno Böck <email address hidden>.
* Add experimental multithreaded xz compression support in libdpkg, which
requires xz >= 5.2.0.
* Fix physical file offset comparison in dpkg. Closes: #808912
Thanks to Yuri Gribov <email address hidden>.
* Fix usage of dpkg-architecture -s after other action options.
Reported by Niels Thykier <email address hidden>.
* Add NIOS2 support to cputable. Thanks to Marek Vasut <email address hidden>.
* On Debian and derivatives enable timeless build flag feature by default.
Thanks to Paul Wise <email address hidden>. Closes: #805872
* Perl modules:
- Add support for Build-Essential field. Closes: #806315
* Test suite:
- Improve perl code test coverage.
* Build system:
- Set PERL5LIB globally for the test suite to the local modules directory,
to avoid using the system modules. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.8.
Reported by Jérémy Bobbio <email address hidden>. Closes: #801329
- Use absolute buildir pathnames in PATH variable for the test suite.
- Descend into scripts directory when cleaning up code coverage files.
- Add new configure option --disable-devel-docs to select the kind of docs
to generate, default for now is development documentation.
- Try to use AM_GNU_GETTEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION to benefit from the latest
installed gettext version, while guaranteeing a minimal required version.
* Packaging:
- Add missing Build-Depends for restriction formula support.
* Documentation:
- Move description for “target architecture” from the dpkg-architecture(1)
‘-A’ option to the TERMS section. Closes: #799046
- Clarify that the md5sum check on «dpkg --verify» is performed on the
file contents, and failures denote changed content. Closes: #760248
- Document that dpkg-buildpacakge -nc -S implies -d.
- Clarify role of Build-Depends in deb-src-control(5).
Prompted by Johannes Schauer <email address hidden>.
- Document supported feature areas.
- Clarify in dpkg-query(1) when binary:Package gets arch-qualified.
Closes: #801958
- Add a subsection separating external from internal environment variables
in dpkg(1).
[ Updated programs translations ]
* Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #800513
* Japanese (Kenshi Muto). Closes: #799432
* Turkish (Mert Dirik). Closes: #799875
[ Updated scripts translations ]
* German (Helge Kreutzmann).
[ Updated manpages translations ]
* German (Helge Kreutzmann, Julian R). Closes: #807156
-- Guillem Jover <email address hidden> Fri, 25 Dec 2015 13:20:26 +0100