The Dpkg Development Team are pleased to announce the release of dpkg 2.0! This long-awaited release finally solves many of the problems and gripes experienced by Debian maintainers, including: * Internationalization support for all control fields and changelogs, including UTF-8 character set support. * Support for the policy-mandated "Enhances" field and for the long-suggested "Breaks" and "Oppressed" fields. * Much improved configuration file handling, with support for non-dpkg utilities such as debconf to get involved in the updating and user prompting. * Multi-arch support allowing simultaneous installation of library packages from any supported architecture on your platform. * Support for GPG-signed binary packages and verification of signatures during installation. * File-based dependencies to easier support non-Debian packages, you may depend on "/usr/lib/libxml2.so" rather than having to find out the real package name. * New single-file source package format which allows multiple pristine tar and patches to be included, mandates the new single "spec" control file instead of the old debian/ directory. * Much improved user-interface through the new comnmand-line tool. As this new version is packaged under a different name, there may be a short delay before the ftpmasters process it. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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