[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 1.5
I am very pleased to announce the release of apt-offline, version 1.5.
In version 1.4, the offline bug report functionality had to be dropped.
In version 1.5, it is back again. apt-offline now uses the new Debian
native BTS library. Thanks to its developers, this library is much more
slim and neat. The only catch is that it depends on the SOAPpy library
which currently is not stock in Python. If you run apt-offline of
Debian, you may not have to worry as I will add a Recommends on that
package. For users using it on Microsoft Windows, please ensure that you
have the SOAPpy library installed. It is available on pypi.
The old bundled magic library has been replaced with the version of
python magic library that Debian ships. This library is derived from the
file package and is portable on almost all Unixes. For Debian users,
there will be a Recommends on it too.
There were also a bunch of old, outstanding, and annoying bugs that have
been fixed in this release. For a full list of changes, please refer to
the git logs.
With this release, apt-offline should be in good shape for the Jessie
release.
apt-offline is available on Alioth @
https://alioth.debian.org/projects/apt-offline/
rrs@learner:~/devel/apt-offline/apt-offline (master)$ axi-cache show
apt-offline
Package: apt-offline
Description-en: offline APT package manager
apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager.
.
apt-offline can fully update and upgrade an APT based distribution without
connecting to the network, all of it transparent to APT.
.
apt-offline can be used to generate a signature on a machine (with no
network).
This signature contains all download information required for the APT
database
system. This signature file can be used on another machine connected
to the
internet (which need not be a Debian box and can even be running
windows) to
download the updates.
The downloaded data will contain all updates in a format understood by
APT and
this data can be used by apt-offline to update the non-networked machine.
.
apt-offline can also fetch bug reports and make them available offline.
Description-md5: 7487fa218999d3466bc1f427d657de2f
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Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System
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