Changelog
aptitude (0.7.6-1) unstable; urgency=low
[ Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo ]
* New upstream release. Please see /usr/share/aptitude/NEWS for a change
log with more details.
- New features:
* [cmdline] "show -v" shows all hashes, not only MD5Sum
* Improvements to "why"/"why-not" (Closes: #729349)
* Add support to clean the packages downloaded after successful
install or similar operations (config option ::Clean-After-Install)
(Closes: #110685)
* [curses] "Keep" now works in version nodes (Closes: #585182)
* [curses] "Install" on virtual packages now installs single candidate,
or emits an error if there are no candidates or more than one
(Closes: #174820)
* [curses] Dependency subtrees are now sorted in a pre-determined order
(Closes: #808882)
* Show Origin URI for packages being untrusted when asking for
confirmation (Closes: #582064)
* [curses] In package info screen, "Packages depending on [this]" are
further split based on the virtual (provided) packages that they depend
upon (Closes: #159584, #760610)
* [cmdline] "search" and "versions" do not truncate columns with
redirections/pipes (Closes: #445206, #496728)
- Bug fixes:
* Properly set a default for $XDG_CACHE_HOME if not set. (Closes: #807545)
* [cmdline] "w" at prompt now actually works (Closes: #555014)
* Refuse to remove aptitude within aptitude (Closes: #319782, #568548)
* [cmdline] Address prompt deficiencies related with translation and input
methods (Closes: #475802)
* Abort with Failure (rather to continue with the installation) when
packages fail to be fetched -- except if APT::Get::Fix-Missing is
present and set to true. When this happens, the actions in the command
line also return with non-zero status. (Closes: #121313, #302784)
* [cmdline] Abort with Failure when actions cannot be taken
(Closes: #121313, #430392, #445034, #498239, #576212, #639789, #798320)
* [curses] Adjust widths and "expand"/"shrink"-ability of some fields so
Broken count and Download size are shown fully even with 80-width
terminals (Closes: #810221)
* [cmdline] Changelog operations now exit with non-zero on errors
(Closes: #675833)
* Fix problem showing versioned provides of virtual packages in error
message
* Fix problem showing the actual version of the package providing the
virtual package in error message
* Avoid loss of automatic flags when packages are marked for removal but
not removed immediately, and the state is saved in between
(Closes: #686573, #718802, #787663)
* Avoid loss of automatic flags when package actions are scheduled
multiple times before taking place (Closes: #563877)
* [cmdline] Arguments for "versions" which are not patterns now treated as
'?exact-name' instead of '?name' (Closes: #691874)
* [curses] "Cancel pending actions" now reloads the cache (roughly
equivalent to restarting the program), rather than marking all packages
as "keep" plus ruining all auto-installed flags and holds
(Closes: #537735, #576319)
* Reinstate auto-installed flag when marking packages to keep in apt cache
(Closes: #508428)
* Message explaining unability to fetch changelogs now suggests "update"
operation (Closes: #456822)
* Do not use ncurses ("visual mode") in dumb terminals (Closes: #317928)
* [cmdline] Do not show "update" progress in dumb terminals
(Closes: #757940)
* [cmdline] Catch exceptions when stdin is not available in prompts
(Closes: #620782)
* Brief explanation when column definitions could not be parsed
(Closes: #813319)
* Do not download changelogs when they are already being downloaded
(Closes: #810020)
* Fix so libapt can drop privileges to _apt:nogroup when downloading from
the network and use pkgAcqChangelog (Closes: #797527, #806595)
* Improve support for trace dumps (Closes: #814408)
- User visible changes:
* [cmdline] Prompt dialog shows lowercase instead of capitalised
"yes"/"no" (Closes: #607444)
* [cmdline] "search" now exits with non-zero on errors or empty results
(Closes: #497299)
* Remove the trailing period from some error messages (Closes: #803011)
* [curses] New style for Download Progress in Status bar, with higher
contrast (Closes: #803980)
* "why" modes, group-by modes and log levels should be provided in
English, translations not accepted anymore (Closes: #738345)
* [curses] Pressing keybinding "Keep" (":") on package names or versions
does not remove the auto-installed flag
* [cmdline] Show error message when using --purge (Closes: #434502)
* [cmdline] "show" selects by default the candidate version (as documented
in man page) and shows extra information when the package is installed
but can be upgraded, rather than showing "not installed"
(Closes: #539978)
* [cmdline] Give more prominence to Version field in "show" command by
showing it as second
* [cmdline] Improve message about packages similar to mistyped names
(Closes: #812397)
- Internal changes:
* Lazy initialisation and better encapsulation of metadata download cache
(Closes: #807852)
- Documentation:
* manpage:
* Explain that "why"/"why-not" need a valid package name
(Closes: #535635)
* Improve documentation of "forbid-version" (Closes: #773023)
* Clarify automatic flag treatment with "install" actions
(Closes: #469219)
* Fix typo in --autoclean-on-startup (Closes: #812864)
* Guide/User's Manual:
* Make images available in the french translation by copying them from
the original document (Closes: #414150, #697736)
* Add note about ?upgradable (Closes: #498440)
- Translation updates:
* Italian documentation translation by Beatrice Torracca (Closes: #808985)
* Portuguese translation by Miguel Figueiredo (Closes: #810651)
* Danish translation by Morten Bo Johansen (Closes: #811400)
* d/patches:
- Drop patches that had been picked from the development branch:
- cherry-pick-e92dd0c1+aba1b455-properly-set-default-XDG_CACHE_HOME.patch
- fix-807852_modified_bc3b024667a0b6f5c5c7ded59f7b7f80e383603b.patch
- Add patch to fix problem building due to string formatting and
strict compiler checks
- ftbfs-string-format.patch
* Bump Policy Standards-Version to 3.9.7 (no changes needed)
[ Axel Beckert ]
* Drop aptitude-dbg in favour of automatic debug packages.
-- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <email address hidden> Sun, 21 Feb 2016 20:03:52 +0000
