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
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