dpkg 1.16.0~ubuntu1 source package in Ubuntu

Changelog

dpkg (1.16.0~ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * Merge from git://git.debian.org/users/hertzog/dpkg.git
    pu/multiarch/snapshot/20110225 for multiarch support.  This brings us
    up-to-date with dpkg 1.16.0-pre staged changes as well as pulling in
    the current version of the multiarch branch from Raphael Hertzog.
  * FFe: LP: #724637.
  * Remaining changes:
    - Set Ubuntu ppc64 optimisation to -O3.

  [ Guillem Jover ]
  * Fix realloc usage on compat scandir() implementation.
  * Use DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE environment variable as package name on
    dpkg-divert when no --package or --local options have been specified.
  * Do not allow versions starting with non-digit when doing strict parsing,
    warn otherwise.
  * Update dpkg(1) to note that --status-fd output does not contain newlines
    in error messages anymore (this was fixed in 1.15.0).
  * Add a new --status-logger option to dpkg, similar to --status-fd but
    instead invoke the command ourselves and feed the status information
    to its standard input. Suggested by Raphaël Hertzog.
  * Add missing space in update-alternative --set-selections output.
  * Add missing options to update-alternative --help output.
  * Count “conffile name is duplicated” for dpkg-deb warning count summary.
  * Improve and clarify strings for translation. Closes: #604914
  * Prefix all fatal error messages with “error: ”.
  * Do not check presence of update-rc.d in the PATH in dpkg, as it's not
    a program needed for dpkg correct operation.
  * Fix dpkg -GEO options on multiple versions of the same packages.
    Closes: #31141
  * Propagate --admindir to programs run from maintainer scritpts.
    Closes: #97076
  * Do not fail when trying to remove the root directory. This will only
    happen either on distributions where dpkg is a foreign package manager,
    or on artificial dpkg databases.
  * Always warn when parsing any package control data which does not have
    an Architecture field except for status and status log files when
    packages are not-installed or half-installed.
  * By default reject installing packages w/o an Architecture field. They
    now need --force-architecture, dpkg will still warn about them though.
  * Fix build failure when passing --disable-nls to configure.
  * Do not segfault on “dpkg -i --no-act”.
  * Add missing semicolon to the vsnprintf() compat declaration.
    Thanks to Robert Millan. Closes: #612203
  * On install for Ubuntu adjust the i386 GNU cpu name in cputable.
    Thanks to Colin Watson <email address hidden>. Closes: #611741

  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
  * Fail properly when debian/source/format is empty. Closes: #600854
  * Add new deb-src-control(5) manual page documenting the debian/control
    file contained in source packages.
    - it documents the X[SBC]- prefix. Closes: #476335
    - it documents the VCS-* fields too. Closes: #483119
    Thanks to Oxan van Leeuwen <email address hidden> who wrote it
    as part of the Google Code In program.
  * Enhance dpkg-shlibdeps to not fail immediatly when a library is not found.
    Instead continue and fail after all problems have been reported. Thanks
    to Chris Baines <email address hidden> for the patch. Closes: #596841
  * Fix dpkg-source to not list Debian packaging files as modified
    upstream files in Format "1.0" when unpacking to a non-standard
    directory.

  [ Jonathan Nieder ]
  * Remove support for use of synchronous sync(2), due to its pernicious
    side-effects and to ease maintenance.

  [ Updated programs translations ]
  * German (Sven Joachim).
  * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo).
  * Spanish (Javier Fernandez-Sanguino).
  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).

  [ Updated man page translations ]
  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).

  [ Updated scripts translations ]
  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).

  [ Updated dselect translations ]
  * Spanish (Javier Fernandez-Sanguino).
 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden>   Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:00:42 -0800