Changelog
aptitude (0.7.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* New upstream release. Please see /usr/share/aptitude/NEWS for a change
log with more details.
- New features:
* 'Escape' key cancels input dialogs (search, limit, etc.) (Closes:
#493322)
* Extend "firstchar" grouping policy to optionally use source
package names.
* [curses] Add 'New Source Package View' to Views menu (thanks
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, really closes: #497206), with some
updates and minor modifications, like more complex grouping.
* [curses] Use Yellow/Brown colour to highlight downgrades (Closes:
#584510)
* Log file now contains version information for most actions
(Closes: #222585)
* Save selection state of packages to dpkg database (Closes:
#137771)
* Consider packages "unknown" to dpkg as not to install. (Closes:
#328616) The behaviour of scheduled aptitude actions will be
preserved.
- Bug fixes:
* Disable strings gathered for translation (Closes: #790568)
* Change to try to make updated status stats more clear (Closes:
#458351)
* [cmdline] Correctly print when a package should be purged (Closes:
#798286)
* [curses] With the option of mini-buffer prompts enabled,
cancellation of the "Quit confirmation" with 'Escape' or 'Ctrl-g'
does not cause the dialog/prompt to stop working (Closes: #607118)
* [cmdline] Warn when package cannot be marked/unmarked auto
(Closes: #498240)
* Install signal handlers and do clean-up when terminating abruptly
(Closes: #558352)
* [curses] Set better ordering for groups of Preview Actions
(Closes: #434352)
- User visible changes:
* Change error string of source_policy_parser to be the same as the
rest.
* [curses] Improve titles and descriptions of views.
- Internal changes:
* Improve retrieval of source package information with (upcoming)
APT 1.1. Thanks to David Kalnischkies for the suggestion and
implementation advice.
* New helper dpkg_selections.{h,cc}, to help to manage saving
selections to the dpkg database (--set-selections)
- Documentation:
* Guide/User's Manual: Remove grouping policy "hier" from
doc/??/aptitude.xml (the categorial/hierarchical browser features
were removed in version 0.7)
- Translation updates:
* Russian by Lev Lamberov (Closes: #798485, #769428)
* Add lintian override for spelling-error-in-binary "ressize", seems to
be from "resource size" or such. Cannot be found in the source code.
* Fix spelling errors in the two previous changelog entries as reported
by Lintian.
* Add lintian override for symlink to /usr/share/common-license/…
* Remove explicit build-dependency on g++ >= 4:5.2, no more needed.
* Detabify previous changelog entry.
* Remove no more active team members from Uploaders as suggested by the
MIA team. Every team member is welcome to re-add himself to Uploaders
once he's active again. Thanks for all your work, Daniel and Daniel!
-- Axel Beckert <email address hidden> Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:42:40 +0200
