Changelog
aptitude (0.8-1) 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:
* Detect and suggest solutions when pkgstates is corrupt (Closes: #405506)
* Allow to choose between localized logs or not (default is not) with the
option ::Localized-Log (Closes: #357828, #596221)
* [curses] Left/Right arrow keys collapse/expand one level of the subtree,
and when in a package item (row) Left jumps to "parent"
(Closes: #157984, #241945, #415449)
* [curses] Be able to Quit after dpkg run (Closes: #246672)
- Bug fixes:
* ~E pattern now returns packages with Essential only (Closes: #548505)
* Detect as "Security Upgrades" when site matches security.*.d.o
(Closes: #328620)
* Allow to run in dumb terminals when not requiring curses preview or
solution screen (Closes: #817276)
* "reinstall" planned action is now preserved across sessions, when
becoming root or in the command line with --schedule-only
(Closes: #255587, #785641)
* Fix crash when invoking curses resolver from command line
(Closes: #817776)
* Update internal state for upgrades without target version after the
action is performed (Closes: #721426)
* [curses] Fix for miscalculated Download Size field (Closes: #817547)
* Marking as keep, through ':' or other actions, clears Forbidden version
* Fix cases where user tags operations did not apply (Closes: #819002)
* Actions involving unfulfilled Recommends invoke the resolver
(Closes: #819636)
* Enhance infer_reason() to explain more cases of pkg_unused_remove
(Closes: #266061)
- User visible changes:
* [cmdline] Output in dumb terminals, when there is no piping/redirection
involved and even if ioctl doesn't work to get window size (e.g. inside
emacs), will now use COLUMNS instead of the default very big default
width
* Format string scapes for Source (%E->%e) and Architecture (%e->%E)
swapped (for consistency with search patterns, fix for #743769)
* New short form "~e" for search term "?source-package" (Closes: #743769)
* [curses] Remove option to run "dpkg-reconfigure" on a given package
(Closes: #680334, #686626, #738350)
* [cmdline] Solution screen for "Remove the following packages" shows
version and suite
- User visible changes (Resolver):
This subsection is to separate the (many) changes of the Resolver in this
version from other changes. Many more details in the "upstream" changelog
(NEWS).
Executive summary:
* Changes to the order in which solutions are offered in conflict
resolutions, so upgrades or keeps are preferred over removal of many
packages
(Closes: #341963, #359171, #365644, #453935, #569315, #570377, #574132,
#588202, #610845, #651410, #651947, #653284, #661678, #722211,
#798240)
A more detailed description of individual changes follows:
* Modify several resolver scores config variables
::ProblemResolver::RequiredScore = 8 (was: 4)
::ProblemResolver::ImportantScore = 4 (was: 5)
::ProblemResolver::StandardScore = 2 (was: 3)
::ProblemResolver::OptionalScore = 1
::ProblemResolver::ExtraScore = 0 (was: -1)
* Add new score for removal of obsolete package and corresponding config
variable ::ProblemResolver::RemoveObsoleteScore
Default to 310 to allow for easier upgrades and to counter the penalty
to remove packages (default -300).
* Add new score for partial solutions cancelling the removal of a package
and corresponding config variable ::ProblemResolver::CancelRemovalScore
Resolver actions cancelling the removal (or purge) of a package
requested to be removed/purged were not being penalised, now they are
(default -300).
* Only add Preserve{Auto,Manual}Score if the packages are actually
installed
Without this, the algorithm was assigning extra score +60 (default
PreserveManualScore) for packages which remained uninstalled
(were not to be installed) and when the user actually didn't select
them manually -- even if the justification was "because it is the
to-be-installed version of a manually installed package".
* Change the default score of several ::ProblemResolver config variables
* ::StepScore to -10 (was +70)
* ::PreserveManualScore to +20 (was +60)
* ::UpgradeScore to +30 (was 0)
* ::Keep-All-Level to 10000 (was 20000)
* Change how the costs are compared
* Apply InstallScore and UpgradeScore also when the packages are not
"manual"
- Internal changes:
* configure.ac: Allow to disable check for Boost library headers
individually
* Avoid extra code calling apt_load_cache() when already loaded
* [cmdline] Rejecting a solution advances to the next one only
* [General] Update FSF's postal address everywhere, drop duplicated
boilerplates
- Documentation:
* manpage:
* Minor clarification about "install" example (Closes: #268698)
- Translation updates:
* da.po: Danish translation by Morten Bo Johansen (Closes: #817065)
* ja.po: Japanese translation by Takuma Yamada (Closes: #819603)
* Actually enable Dutch (nl) documentation translation by Frans
Spiesschaert
* Add aptitude-doc-nl package
* d/control: Drop Build-dependencies present for a long time but which
haven't been used in the last few years:
- libboost-python-dev
- libboost-serialization-dev
[ Axel Beckert ]
* Demote Recommends on HTML documentation to Suggests. (Closes: #820452)
* Declare compliance with Debian Policy 3.9.8. (No changes needed.)
* Switch Homepage header from http:// to https://.
* Switch Vcs-Git header from git:// to https://.
* Convert debian/copyright to machine-readable DEP5 format and overhaul it.
* debian/rules: Use --dbgsym-migration instead of --ddeb-migration.
-- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <email address hidden> Wed, 20 Apr 2016 16:35:17 +0100
