Changelog
dpkg (1.22.0) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Guillem Jover ]
* dpkg: Do not reset the line number for each --command-fd parsed command.
* dselect: Add non-free-firmware archive area support.
* dselect: Relicense ftp method from GPL-2 to GPL-2+.
* dpkg-deb: Do not print trailing spaces in --info output.
* dpkg: Clarify that commands can take package-name or --pending in error
message. Closes: #1034466
* Remove avr32, m32r and tilegx obsolete architectures.
See Linux commit 26202873bb51fafdaa51be3e8de7aab9beb49f70 (avr32).
See Linux commit 553b085c2075f6a4a2591108554f830fa61e881f (m32r).
See Linux commit bb9d812643d8a121df7d614a2b9c60193a92deb0 (tile).
* dpkg-db-keeper: Add helper script to assist with tracking database changes.
* dpkg-buildpackage: Add support for new preinit hook. Closes: #1023753
* dselect: Remove handling of .GZ, .Z and .z compressed Package files.
* dselect: Fix stdout+stderr discarding redirection in ftp method.
Prompted by shellcheck.
* dpkg-buildpackage: Fix build hook action substitution string handling.
* dpkg-buildpackage: Set the hook options in an environment variable.
Closes: #902856
* dpkg-buildpackage: Set DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_HOOK_NAME envvar for hooks.
* dpkg-buildpackage: Handle missing information for hook substitutions.
* dpkg-deb: Fix short lived memory leak after fork().
* Switch from pkg-config to pkgconf.
* dpkg: Handle non-existent .dpkg-tmp files on read-only filesystems.
Closes: #1030149
* dpkg-buildpackage: Fix R³ namespace check to only refuse unknown dpkg
keywords. Closes: #1036865
* dpkg-buildapi: New tool to fetch the dpkg-build-api level.
* dpkg-shlibdeps: On dpkg-build-api >= 1 require -l instead of
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
* dpkg-buildpackage: On dpkg-build-api >= 1 default R³ to no.
* dpkg-buildpackage: On dpkg-build-api >= 1 avoid build target heuristics.
* Mark dpkg-build-api level 1 as stable.
* Architecture support:
- Restore "arch: Add support for loong64 CPU". Closes: #1028654
* Perl modules:
- Dpkg::OpenPGP::ErrorCodes: Add new OPENPGP_CMD_CANNOT_SIGN error code.
- Dpkg::OpenPGP::Backend::GnuPG: On signing failure use
OPENPGP_CMD_CANNOT_SIGN. Closes: #1030271
- Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump::Object: Split from Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump.
- Dpkg::Control::HashCore::Tie: Split from Dpkg::Control::HashCore.
- Dpkg::Vars: Fold into Dpkg::Package.
- Dpkg::Package: Rename source_package symbols to source_name.
- Dpkg::Changelog::Parse: Fix indentation of copyright and license notice.
- Dpkg::Version: Update POD for removed semantic_change::overload::bool
warning.
- Dpkg::Gettext: Relicense from BSD-2 to GPL-2+.
- Dpkg::Source::Archive: Fix file normalization for relative pathnames.
- Dpkg::Source::Archive: Reflow regex match in _add_entry().
- Dpkg::Control::FieldsCore: Deprecate implicit field_transfer_single()
argument.
- Dselect::Method::Ftp: Rename from Dselect::Ftp.
- Dselect::Method::Ftp: Modify config and site subs towards method
independence.
- Dselect::Method: Move to be generic functions from Dselect::Ftp.
- Dselect::Method::Ftp: Update package name.
- Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Add time64 feature in the future area.
Based on a patch by Helge Deller <email address hidden>. Closes: #1030159
- Dpkg::Control::HashCore::Tie: Rename $last to $prev.
- Dpkg::Substvars: Handle exponential expansion gracefully.
- Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump: Remove unsupported ELF machine types.
- Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump: Add ELF machine types for all supported arches.
- Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump: Add RISC-V ELF ABI tracking.
- Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump: Add OR1K ELF ABI tracking.
- Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump: Switch get_format() to return a colon-separated
string.
- Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump: Add back the ARM ABI mismatch mask but commented
out. See #853793.
- Dpkg::Source::Quilt: Switch get_db_file() to be based off get_db_dir().
- Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Mark PIE as builtin on hurd-amd64.
- Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Only use ABI bits to suppress LFS or time64
features.
- Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Only enable LFS when time64 is enabled for glibc.
- Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Invert time64 suppression list logic.
- Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Ignore musl libc systems for time64 suppression.
- Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Add fallback values for ABI attributes.
- Dpkg::Source::Package::V2: Mark single-debian-patch as not needing
forwarding. Closes: #1038121
- Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Sync builtin pie arches with gcc-13.
- Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Move time64 buildflags feature from future to abi.
Suggested by Steve Langasek <email address hidden>.
- Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Move lfs from future to abi area and create an
alias. Suggested by Steve Langasek <email address hidden>.
- Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Move builtin default setup before
init_build_features().
- Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Handle abi feature flags as builtin.
- Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Add support for new hardening branch feature.
Closes: #1021292
- Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Add support for new stackclash hardening feature.
Closes: #918914
- Dpkg::Source::Quilt: Switch get_patch_file() to be based off
get_patch_dir().
- Dpkg::BuildAPI: New module.
* Make fragments:
- Add new buildapi.mk support.
- On dpkg-build-api >= 1 default to dpkg_vendor_derives_from_v1.
- On dpkg-build-api >= 1 include buildtools.mk in default.mk.
* Documentation:
- man: Add notes about reproducibility properties for path fixing build
features. Prompted by Sven Joachim <email address hidden>.
- man: Itemize remaining lists.
- man: Unify admonition markup and formatting.
- man: Move shell redirection operator close to the redirected file.
- man: Add versions where build flag features were added.
- doc: Update triggers spec.
- man: Fix OpenPGP backends list in dpkg-buildpackage(1).
- doc: Use «honor» and «behavior» uniformly in documentation and output.
- man: Clarify that dpkg-reconfigure is part of the debconf project.
- doc: Add a Status field to frontend-api spec.
- man: Clarify shared library name formats and their purpose.
- man: Add SECURITY sections.
- man: Spell out «manual page».
- man: Clarify C.UTF-8 locale setting hint. Closes: #1028296
- man: Update methods provided by dselect(1).
- man: Turn buildinfo filename format selection into a list.
- man: Itemize supported deb-changelog(5) keyword/value entries.
- doc: Move Perl version baseline as the first perl coding style
subsection.
- doc: Clarify required C/C++ standards.
- doc: Require POSIX.1-2008.
- man: Mention .buildinfo in dpkg-buildpackage --sign-command description.
- doc: Fix typo.
- man: Document known DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS options. Closes: #1038888
- man: Clarify the md5sums checks as integrity and not security checks.
Prompted by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <email address hidden>.
- man: Clarify dpkg-architecture -c option.
Prompted by Paul Wise <email address hidden>.
- man: Document version when new programs where introduced.
- man: Fix typo in future lfs feature introduction version.
- man: Open up dpkg-build-api level 1.
* Code internals:
- libdpkg: Move early return into the loop.
- libdpkg: Remove impossible condition.
- libdpkg: Turn bitmask parse_nv_flags into an actual enum parse_nv_mode.
- libdpkg: Move parse_nv() next word check inside else block.
- dpkg: Remove path_quote_filename() usage.
- dselect: Reduce variables scope.
- libcompat: Reduce variables scope.
- libdpkg: Reduce variables scope.
- update-alternatives: Reduce variables scope.
- src: Reduce variables scope.
- libdpkg: Rename mlib module to mustlib.
- dselect: Remove unused trailing semicolons.
- libdpkg: Surround macro within a do-while block.
- perl: Add $VERSION to all embedded perl packages.
- perl: Add POD to all private modules. Closes: #1030660
- perl: Move POD sections before what they describe.
- scripts: Unpack function arguments.
- scripts: Remove duplicate variable declaration.
- dselect: Reduce variable scope to avoid shadowing.
- perl: Move $VERSION into package keyword.
- perl: Remove unused Dpkg::Version semantic_change warning suppression.
- scripts: Use «(undef) x N» to ignore tuples or function returns.
- perl: Stop removing «.» from @INC before loading modules.
- dpkg-scansources: Reorder captured variable and regex match.
- perl: Use List::Util instead of fixed string matches within a regex.
- perl: Pass $_ explicitly to field_transfer_single().
- perl: Rename filename related variables to distinguish them from field
ones.
- dpkg-genchanges: Move comment describing %sourcedefault before
declaration.
- perl: Rename Dpkg::Control variables from $f to $c or $ctrl.
- perl: Use an $f variable for fields instead of the topic variable.
- perl: Use fixed string comparisons for field name matches.
- scripts: Switch code to use chained comparisons.
- dselect: Update Andy Guy email address.
- dselect: Remove unused ismulti() function from media method actions.
- dpkg-deb: Use intermediate variable for exec mark on --info output.
- dpkg-deb: Refactor maintscript interpreter parser.
- dpkg-deb, dpkg-query: Rename option flags to opt_NAME.
- dpkg-trigger: Rename CLI option variables from f_ to opt_.
- libcompat: Declare variables before definitions.
- libdpkg: Make local variables static.
- libdpkg: Rename FHFF_NONE to FHFF_NONEW.
- libdpkg: Switch bitmasks enumerations into precise masks.
- libdpkg: Add enumerations for the default, unset and max cases.
- libdpkg: Add warning suppression macros.
- lib: Add an enum flags attribute.
- lib, src, utils: Use new enum flag C attributes.
- libdpkg: Unconditionally initialize c variable in parse_stanza().
- start-stop-daemon: Initialize variables in run_stop_schedule().
- dpkg-genchanges: Refactor .changes file description formatting into a
function.
- dpkg-genchanges: Replace Encode usage with utf8 encode/decode functions.
- dpkg-gensymbols: Use File::Compare instead of Digest::MD5.
- dselect: Reword odd code comment.
- dselect: Use «color» uniformly in variables and comments.
- libdpkg: Handle missing Version when formatting source:Upstream-Version.
Reported by John Scott <email address hidden>.
- perl: Remove «1;» from end of script in programs.
- libdpkg: Pass -- after sh -c to avoid bogus option parsing.
Prompted by Joe Simmons-Talbott <email address hidden> (on libc-alpha).
- libdpkg: Mask the mode from the tar entry to only the file mode bits.
- lib: Define __has_include fallback if the compiler does not support it.
- libdpkg: Simplify progress output by using fputs() and putchar().
- libdpkg: Mark the progress percentage for translation. See #1034378.
- dpkg-buildpackage: Turn items into lists for easier extensibility.
- libdpkg: Make headers self-contained.
Thanks to Simon Richter <email address hidden>.
- libdpkg: Mark functions in headers as inline.
Thanks to Simon Richter <email address hidden>.
- scripts: Do not set LANG unnecessarily.
- dpkg: Move comment next to the code it is describing.
- dpkg-buildpackage: Move hook invocation closer to artifact creation.
- dpkg-buildpackage: Default the enabled run_hook() parameter to true.
- dpkg-buildpackage: Turn the run_hook() enabled argument into a hash
option.
- libcompat: Use ptrdiff_t directly instead of using a macro.
- libcompat: Update getopt code from gnulib.
- libdpkg: Remove redundant check.
- lib, src: Add const qualifiers to variables.
- dselect: Add constVariableReference as a cppcheck suppression.
- libdpkg: Fix varbuf memory leak in pkg_source_version().
- dpkg-shlibdeps: Switch from exec() to Dpkg::IPC::spawn().
Prompted by Paul Wise <email address hidden>.
- libdpkg: Fix coding style for varbuf module.
- libdpkg: Reorder varbuf functions.
- libdpkg: Add varbuf_add_varbuf() function.
- libdpkg: Add varbuf_add_strn().
- libdpkg: Add varbuf setter functions.
- libdpkg: Switch ustar filename construction to use varbuf_add_strn().
- dpkg-split: Use varbuf instead of ad-hoc allocation in read_info.
- Use varbuf_add_varbuf() instead of varbuf_add_buf()/_str().
- Use varbuf_set_*() instead of ad-hoc initialization.
- libdpkg: Generalize command_in_path() from find_command().
* Build system:
- Fix version script linker support detection.
- Enable -Wextra-semi compilation warning.
- Explicitly set the date when generating perl module man pages.
- Bump minimal Perl version to 5.32.1.
- Enable more compiler warnings.
- Remove unused AC_SIZEOF checks.
- Check for the host architecture attributes during configure.
- Detect whether we need librt for clock_gettime().
- Use an export symbols file if there is no version script support.
- Add -no-undefined libtool flag.
- Add support for .git-blame-ignore-revs file.
- Fix typo in .gitignore filename by renaming it.
Thanks to Simon Richter <email address hidden>.
- Remove vim swap file entry from .gitignore.
- Ignore tags files.
Based on a patch by Simon Richter <email address hidden>.
- Add perl prefixes into the Code Internals changelog section.
- Namespace COMPILER_*FLAGS with DPKG_.
- Add support for compiler sanitizer flags.
- Add support for compiler analyzer flags.
- Add new gcc-13 warnings.
- Warn on alloca() usage.
- Remove distcleancheck_listfiles override for CPAN dist-cpan target.
- Avoid Perl's exec() falling back to system().
Thanks to Paul Wise <email address hidden>.
See https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/exec.html.
* Packaging:
- Merge copyright statements for the same holder.
- Remove executable permissions from maintscripts in source.
- Remove no longer needed alternatives fixup from postint.
- Remove no longer needed maintscripts for method renames.
- Fix removal of file method state directory on purge.
- Wrap fields in debian/tests/control file.
- Set Persistent=true for dpkg-db-backup systemd timer.
Thanks to Teemu Likonen <email address hidden>. Closes: #1041730
- Do not start the dpkg-db-backup timer during installation.
* Test suite:
- Update perlcritic checks and suppressions.
- Disable perlcritic checks that are not relevant.
- Reduce scope of variable to avoid shadowing others.
- Do not use potentially bogus variable value.
- Enable perlcritic RegularExpressions::ProhibitCaptureWithoutTest.
- Disable -Wassign-enum for tests using out of range enum values.
- Make some perlcritic checks more strict.
- Update rationale for perlcritic check suppressions.
- Use the TAR detected at configure time in autotests.
- Use the SED detected at configure time in autotests.
- Use m4 to implement seq instead of assuming GNU seq is present.
- Add missing argument to DPKG_FILE_SIZE m4 function.
- Add more substvar recursive replace cases.
- Define lzma based on xz if missing.
- Switch deb non-uniform members test to use uncompressed control.tar.
- Use AT_DATA instead of touch to create empty files.
- Refactor deb-format package template generation into a new macro.
- Split deb-format tests per compressor.
- Fix t-disappear-depended test.
- Add cases for disappearing with diversions.
- Add cases for disappearance on diverted overwrites and third parties.
Suggested by Simon Richter <email address hidden>.
- Quote command variables in case these contain spaces.
- Use the GREP/EGREP detected at configure time in autotests.
- Pass -n to gzip for all invocations.
- Generate the pkg-old.deb from controlled parts.
- Compute the sizes for «dpkg-deb -I» output dynamically.
- Add test cases for dpkg-buildpackage hook support.
- Use dpkg-buildpackage --no-sign instead of each --unsigned-* option.
- Add new stop words for codespell 2.2.5.
- Update cppcheck suppressions for 2.11.
- Define macros to help cppcheck analyze code.
- Fix varbuf memory leak in t-pkg-format test.
- Rename merge_changlogs test to match the command being tested.
- Add new test case checking Conflicts with Replaces.
- Fix t-conffile-divert-conffile case.
- Use «ar qc» to create archives with duplicate members.
- Move test_data_file() to test.h.
* Localization:
- Add Portuguese scripts translations.
Thanks to Américo Monteiro <email address hidden>. Closes: #1032562
- Clarify license for translation files.
- Fix Project-Id-Version to match the gettext domain.
- Unify translation header description.
- Update Dutch header boilerplate with an actual copyright line.
- Update French scripts translation.
Thanks to Sébastien Poher <email address hidden>.
- Update Romanian dselect translation.
Thanks to Remus-Gabriel Chelu <email address hidden>.
Closes: #1040869
- Use Dpkg Developers instead of listing them individually.
[ Helge Kreutzmann ]
* man: Remove a now superfluous character from dpkg(1).
* Localization:
- Update German man pages translation.
- Update German scripts translation.
[ Sven Joachim ]
* Localization:
- Update German dselect translation.
- Update German programs translation.
-- Guillem Jover <email address hidden> Wed, 30 Aug 2023 05:39:24 +0200
