Changelog
aptitude (0.7.7-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release. Please see /usr/share/aptitude/NEWS for a change
log with more details.
- New features:
* Only lock package cache dirs and call pkgAcquire->Run() when necessary
(Closes: #766122)
* [curses] Bindings for reject/approval of solutions in resolver can
be applied to subtrees (Closes:#475595)
* Several optimizations that improve performance at startup and when
reading/writing files (Closes: #312920)
* [curses] Download Size field shows remaining to be fetched
(Closes: #446085)
- Bug fixes:
* [cmdline] Fix crash with "show" and not installed packages
(Closes: #815581)
* [curses] Fix for wrong width/properties of some columns in the
columnizer, incl. "hostname" rendered with 4 characters instead
of 8 (Closes: #815554)
* [curses] Fix crash when trying to view changelog. Thanks Wei-Cheng Pan
for the fix. (Closes: #815635)
* [cmdline] In "search" and "versions", when width is set explicitly,
pipes/redirections do not act as --disable-columns (Closes: #815690)
* [curses] "%r" (revdepcount) now includes virtual packages
(Closes: #320089)
* [curses] infer_reason() for pkg_unused_removed now has
recommends/suggests into account in all cases (Closes: #476596)
* Fixed case of packages wrongly being marked with auto-flag upon start
(Closes: #816229)
* Packages to "keep" when applying solutions of the resolver maintain
current manual/auto (Closes: #815551)
- User visible changes:
* [curses] Change "Will use/free %sB of disk space" for "Disk: %sB"
* [curses] In Preview screen, bottom pannel, improve dependency reasons
explanations for package to be installed (Closes: #814592)
* [curses] Remove option to run "reportbug" on a given package or package
version (Closes: #463510)
* [cmdline] Operations like "show", "search", "versions", "why"/"why-not"
or "changelog" do not need to lock dpkg state directories
(Closes: #498061)
- Internal changes:
* Support for most changes in recent versions of apt
(Closes: #687678, #687686, #687688, #687684)
* Move the definition methods of dpkg_selections to the headers
(optimization)
* Lazy initialization of reading "tasks" information (optimization)
* Optimizations when reading/writing files
* Optimizations when reading debtags
* Optimizations when building trees for package views
- Translation updates:
* Dutch documentation translation by Frans Spiesschaert (Closes: #815183)
* Dutch translation by Frans Spiesschaert (Closes: #815185)
* d/patches:
- Drop patch to fix problem building due to string formatting and
strict compiler checks (added "upstream")
- ftbfs-string-format.patch
-- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <email address hidden> Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:12:09 +0000
