Re: Bug#579795: apt transition
2010/8/21 Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>:
> We're (finally) getting ready to start this. Can you provide an outline
> of the changes you want to get in?
Basically the package which is bumming around in experimental
plus a few bugfixes which are in the pipeline and (hopefully a lot)
of updated translations Christian Perrier intends to work on at the
start of September [0] (doesn't block the transition itself, just as a
note and as an early question for a freeze exception).
Most notable changes are:
* MultiArch ABI changes (disabled at runtime per default)
* download and usage of multiple description translation files
* dynamic growable mmap (no more "mmap ran out of room")
* be able to use gzip compressed indexes directly
* a new (more human readable) history.log file
* be able to handle dpkgs disappearing packages feature
* support deb files bigger than 2 GB
* support for architecture wildcards as declared by d-policy 3.9
* rewrite and abstraction of the commandline parsing resulting
in the ability to understand e.g. apt-cache depends apt-u.*/installed
* a complete sync with ubuntu with very few remaining differences
(this version is shipped and tested since ~2 weeks in ubuntu/maverick
and hasn't caused serious issues so far)
* a big bunch of other bugfixes (including at least 2 rc's) accumulating
since February in experimental…
A more complete changelog can be viewed in *drum roll* debian/changelog [1]
or in the sometimes slightly more verbose bazaar history [2].
Julians "needs" regarding python-apt and co. are included in
his mail send earlier this month. [3]
Further more we would be still happy about a comment or two on
bug #558784 [4] as asked for in April or so as debian-archive-keyring
is "your" package and at least part of the "problem"…
Fixing it would mean that debian-archive-keyring doesn't need gpg
to install the keyring in APT and APT just needs gpgv for apt-secure
dropping gnupg from important (at least in APTs dependency chain)…
Best regards,
David Kalnischkies
P.S.: Michael and I will try to be online at the releaseteam-meeting
today in the case release team should have instant questions…
[0] http://lists.debian.org/deity/2010/08/msg00115.html
[1] http://bzr.debian.org/loggerhead/apt/apt/debian-sid/annotate/head:/debian/changelog
[2] http://bzr.debian.org/loggerhead/apt/apt/debian-sid/changes
[3] http://lists.debian.org/deity/2010/08/msg00020.html
[4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=558784
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