Re: APT upload

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 06:59:19AM +0200, Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> was heard to say:
> The current version of APT in bzr (debian-sid branch) has a *huge*
> amount of translation updates.
> 
> Some are caused by the recent changes introduced in the code (see the
> section under mvo's name in changelog), some others are older things
> which went unnoticed probably because I missed them (too big files
> sent to the deity mailing list?).
> 
> As a matter of fact, APT should have an l10n upload before lenny.
> 
> The only risk is that I'm unsure whether the current debian-sid branch
> would be suitable for the release team as it has a few *other*
> changes:

  Note that these changed the ABI of apt (e.g., #499322).  I'm not sure
which patch did it (I didn't feel like arm-wrestling bzr to get that
information out of it), but I think it has to do with adding more
messages on dpkg output, so it may be the progress reporting
improvement.

  I assume this wasn't intentional.  Since the pkgDpkgPM class is
instantiated directly by user code, I don't think there's really a
way to introduce a new member without changing the ABI.  But it
looks to me like that information is effectively static anyway.  It
could be made static in the .cc and initialized once, or even just
initialized whenever it's used.  Or we could just have a series of
"if" statements (it's only 4 entries anyway).

  Daniel