Bug#806251: transition: apt

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

Control: tags -1 confirmed

On 25/11/15 21:22, Michael Vogt wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
> Severity: normal
> 
> We would like to release a new apt that brings a ton of improvements
> but also breaks the ABI (and has some small API change that affects
> aptitude and packagekit, see below).
> 
> We prepared the package in experimental and double checked the rdepends
> in an ubuntu PPA. There are some small and mostly internal API changes
> as well. The affected packages were aptitude, synaptic and
> packagekit. All of those have fixes ready for libapt-pkg5.0. Synaptic
> just needs a rebuild, aptitude and packagekit are ready for upload and
> will get uploaded by their maintainers once apt is in unstable. 

Go ahead.

Cheers,
Emilio