[ Guillem Jover ] * Call _g instead of g_ in dpkg-name. * Fix inverted logic when deciding to assume the architecture in dpkg-name when the package didn't have such field. * Do not take into account Revision and Package_Revision fields in dpkg-name and dpkg-scanpackages as they have been handled already by “dpkg-deb -I”. * Switch dpkg-scansources to use Dpkg::Cdata instead of duplicating the .dsc parsing code. As a side effect it now handles properly bogus files. * Do not remap obsolete fields in dpkg-scanpackages as they have been handled already by “dpkg-deb -I”. * Properly mark packages being purged for disappearance from the database. This will make the status database not be left behind with traces of old not-installed packages. Closes: #472208 * On parse mark not-installed leftover packages for automatic removal from the database on next dump. This obsoletes the --forget-old-unavail option, thus making it now a no-op. Closes: #33394, #429262 * Document “hold” under package selection states instead of flags in dpkg(1). * Remove trailing ‘/’ and ‘/.’ from the directory name to be used as the package name on “dpkg-deb -b”. Closes: #218018, #373602 * Remove obsolete ‘hold’ and ‘hold-reinstreq’ internal status flags. * Add fakeroot to dpkg-dev Recommends. Closes: #536821 * Fix an always false test when trying to decide which package to deselect to resolve a dependency problem in dselect. * Add uClibc Linux support to ostable and triplettable. Closes: #455501 * Add uClinux support to ostable and triplettable. Thanks to Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>. * When aborting due to file conflicts print the version of the conflicted package. Closes: #540019 * Remove double slash in database path visible to the user in some error conditions. * Stop macthing sparc64-*-* GNU triplets with sparc Debian architecture. * Add support for config.d style directories in dpkg and dselect, (/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d and /etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg.d respectively). * Define DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_ARCH on the maintainer script environment to the architecture the package got built for. * Document DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE maintainer script environment variable in dpkg man page. * Document DPKG_RUNNING_VERSION maintainer script environment variable in dpkg man page. * Change po4a usage to not create unwated changes depending if doing out or in-tree builds. * Use po4a “--previous” support when updating the man pages. Suggested by Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>. * On configuration error print file name and line number. * Allow quoting values in configuration file options. * Add new --pre-invoke and --post-invoke hooks in dpkg. * Add new --control-path command to dpkg-query. * Use ohshit on bad version syntax in --compare-versions. * Add Multi-Arch to the list of known binary package fields for dpkg-dev. Thanks to Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>.
[ Raphael Hertzog ] * Replace install-info by a wrapper around GNU's install-info. The wrapper will be dropped in squeeze+1. dpkg now Breaks: old versions of info-browsers that do not depend on the new install-info package that provides the real functionality. Closes: #9771, #523980 See http://wiki.debian.org/Transitions/DpkgToGnuInstallInfo for details. * Fix dpkg's preinst in case /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives contains unexpected sub-directories. Closes: #535138 And also when one of the file doesn't contain correct alternatives information (improper number of lines). Closes: #537558 * Upgrade Standards-Version to 3.8.2 (no changes). * Update deb-substvars(5) to list fields that do not support substvars. Closes: #535353 * Fix dpkg-parsechangelog to include all entries with -v0 parameter. Closes: #537800 * Fix update-alternatives to mention the correct slave link that can't be installed due to a conflicting file instead of quoting the master link. * Add support for extra override file in dpkg-scanpackages. Thanks to Robert Millan for the patch. Closes: #537559 * Add support for extra override file in dpkg-scansources. * Document format of extra override file in a new manual page deb-extra-override(5). * Update sample in dpkg-gensymbols(1) to give an accurate listing of 64 bit arches. Thanks to Julien Cristau for the patch. Closes: #540382 * Create /etc/cron.daily/dpkg to handle the backup of /var/lib/dpkg/status in /var/backups. This is taken out of the cron package and need no conflicts/breaks as the code does nothing if the current status file is already backupped. Thanks to Leo 'costela' Antunes <costela@debian.org> for the patch. Closes: #541412 * Change behaviour of dpkg --merge-avail to not update a package's information if the version provided is older than the one already listed in the available file. Thanks to Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> for the patch. Closes: #496114 * dpkg-architecture can now export DEB_{HOST,BUILD}_ARCH_{BITS,ENDIAN} (pointer size and endianness): - cputable (in dpkg) modified to contain those information - dpkg-dev depends on dpkg (>= 1.15.4) to ensure that we have an updated cputable (and so that a versioned build-dependency on dpkg-dev is enough to use this new feature) Closes: #531307 * Split overly long Binary: field values over multiple lines. This is allowed since policy 3.8.3. Closes: #494714 * Improve performance of dpkg-shlibdeps by caching minimal version associated to each library in Dpkg::Shlib::SymbolFile. Thanks to Jiří Paleček <jpalecek@web.de> for the patch. * Slightly improve dpkg-source(1) by giving the section name that we're referring to. Closes: #544037 * Fix translation error in german manpage of dpkg-buildpackage. Thanks to Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org>. Closes: #541829
[ Modestas Vainius ] * Provide a meaningful label for dpkg-gensymbols diff.