dpkg (1.21.2) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Guillem Jover ]
* dpkg: Fix memory leak in remove-on-upgrade handling.
* dpkg-deb: Fix unexpected end of file conditions on .deb extract.
* Use anchor links for the dpkg FAQ URLs.
* update-alternatives: Do not skip --config with a single entry.
Reported by David Kalnischkies <donkult@debian.org>.
* update-alternatives: Refactor alternative_install().
* update-alternatives: Use intermediate variables when parsing actions.
* update-alternatives: Clarify option parse errors by printing the wrong
values.
* update-alternatives: Clarify bad usage message by enclosing in angles and
quoting arguments.
* dpkg-buildpackage: Switch terse make from -s to --no-print-directory.
Closes: #1003164
* scripts: Unify deprecated command-line option warnings.
* dpkg-source: Fix alternate changelog file usage with 2.0 and 3.0 formats.
Reported by Umut <ue16@gmx.de> (on IRC).
* update-alternatives: Use the target timestamp when the symlink does not
exist. Closes: #
1004557
* dselect: Handle window resizes in help and menu screens. Closes: #382307
* dselect: Do not beep on key press errors in method and package list
windows. Closes: #533639
* dselect: Add support for --instdir.
* Perl modules:
- Dpkg::Control::FieldsCore: Sort control type entries in %FIELD_ORDER.
- Dpkg::Control::FieldsCore: Refactor Vcs fields into a common variable.
- Dpkg::Control::FieldsCore: Refactor testsuite fields into a common
variable.
- Dpkg::Control::FieldsCore: Accept Architecture as a debian/tests/control
field.
- Dpkg::Control::FieldsCore: Add missing allowed fields for (In)Release
files.
- Dpkg::Control::FieldsCore: Add field order for all control types.
- Dpkg::Index: Switch key function for control tests to be a stanza index.
Reported by Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>.
- Dpkg::Source::Package: Only generate the patch header if needed.
Prompted by Umut <ue16@gmx.de> (on IRC).
- Dpkg::Source::Package: Use File::Spec instead of ad-hoc concatenation.
* Documentation:
- man: Mention on what actions triggers get processed in dpkg(1).
Closes: #1001010
- man: Clarify that dpkg-divert --list pattern is optional.
Thanks to наб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>. Closes: #
1001761
- man: Use «main» git branch in examples.
- man: Markup each individual element independently.
- man: Refer to the relevant maintscript actions explicitly.
- man: Add a missing preposition to deb-preinst(5).
- man: Do not hardcode DPKG_ADMINDIR in update-alternatives.
- man: Document that update-alternatives honors DPKG_ROOT.
- man: Clarify --admindir and --instdir default values.
Reported by Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@debian.org>.
* Code internals:
- libdpkg: Check that cip is not NULL before dereferencing it.
- libdpkg: Add missing symbols to the version map.
- libdpkg: Use the amount of available memory instead phys_mem/2.
Thanks to Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>.
- libdpkg: Refactor liblzma memlimit and cputhreads getters.
- libdpkg: Dynamically allocate the buffers for de/compression I/O.
- libdpkg: Increase I/O memory buffers from 4 to 32 KiB.
- libdpkg: Pass struct compress_params as the first argument.
- libdpkg: Pass struct compress_params to decompressors.
- libdpkg: Refactor pkg_format_print() out from pkg_format_show().
- libdpkg: Do not restrict source:* virtual fields to installed packages.
Closes: #1004372
- libdpkg: Do not allow argv with no arguments.
- update-alternatives: Refactor alternative_has_broken_symlink().
- update-alternatives: Move symlink removal inside fsys_symlink().
- update-alternatives: Move filename generation outside alternative setup.
- dselect: Rework windows resize to be signal safe.
- scripts: Expand long word list into one entry per line.
- scripts/mk: Remove unneeded conditionals.
Thanks to Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas@debian.org>.
- scripts/mk: Indent code in Makefile fragments.
Thanks to Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas.boulenguez@free.fr>.
* Build system:
- Terminate lists in variables with «# EOL».
- Move build helper tools into build-aux/.
- Reorganize dpkg programs source code under src/.
- Move autotest suite under src/.
- Move C test suite machinery into lib/dpkg/.
- Fix relocated autotest test suite runner.
- Fix gitignore for build-aux/ directory.
- Namespace Config variable usage.
Reported by Павловец Сергей Николаевич
<s.pavlovets@ivcmf.by>.
- Add gitlab CI test for shared library building.
- Link all programs against libcompat.
Prompted by Jörg Sonnenberger <joerg@NetBSD.org>.
- Remove unused TESTDATA variable from autotest suite.
- Rework TAP check hooking into the autotools machinery.
- Move EXTRA_DIST close to the files it is acting on.
- Refactor autotest dependencies into a new variable.
- Refactor autotest machinery into an automake include file.
- Fold autotest test suite machinery into src/ from src/at/.
- Rename do_path_subst to do_make_subst.
- Factor out installation variable substitution into a new subst.am file.
- Move shell scripts into src/.
- Make AS_TR_* calls more clear.
- Support compression library names with dashes.
- Add zlib-ng support.
- Rename HAVE_LZMA_MT to HAVE_LZMA_MT_ENCODER.
- Move zsh completion under a subdirectory.
- Switch sed pseudo-in-place replace invocations with copy then move.
- Add comment about «sed -i» not being portable.
Prompted by Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas@debian.org>.
- Mark libcompat and libdpkg as internal components in changelog.
- Support specifying previous and next tags to gen-changelog.
- Use non-capturing groups in regex in gen-changelog.
- Do not hardcode «main» section for title check in gen-changelog.
- Use sort flag instead of hardcoding the section in gen-changelog.
- Do not put localization entries on their own changelog group.
* Packaging:
- Ignore directories for the alternatives state fixup. Closes: #
1001695
- Update bug-script to clarify usrmerge systems are unsupported.
- Install aclocal m4 files into libdpkg-dev.
- Install optional localized man pages with dh_installman.
- Add a new not-installed file.
- Switch to use the dh sequencer.
- Make TESTSUITEFLAGS extensible.
- Pass -jN to autotools autotest test suite via TESTSUITEFLAGS.
- Update lintian overrides.
- Use dpkg-error.sh in postinst.
- Warn in postinst about merged-/usr-via-aliased-dirs breakage.
* Test suite:
- Move AT_TESTED to testsuite.at.
- Run the tools with --version.
- Rename DPKG_GEN_FILE to DPKG_GEN_CTRL_FILE.
- Refactor control file template generation.
- Rewrite dpkg-realpath test from TAP to autotest.
- Rewrite dpkg-divert test from TAP to autotest.
- Remove now unused TAP tests support from src/.
- Print field type name instead of id in test case description.
- Add new pkg-format unit tests.
- Fix test_command_exec program invocation.
Thanks to Sören Tempel <soeren+git@soeren-tempel.net>.
- Use a temporary file instead of unportable «sed -i».
Prompted by Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas@debian.org>.
- Add test case for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
Thanks to Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas@debian.org>.
- Use «each» instead of «keys» and value fetching.
Thanks to Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas@debian.org>.
* Localization:
- Remove previous msgid for non-fuzzy translations.
- Update Catalan translations.
- Update Dutch translation. Closes: #
1003671, #
1003672, #
1003673
Thanks to Frans Spiesschaert <Frans.Spiesschaert@yucom.be>.
- Update Swedish translations. Closes: #
1003799, #
1007116
Thanks to Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>.
[ Sven Joachim ]
* Localization:
- Update German dselect translation.
- Update German programs translation.
[ Helge Kreutzmann ]
* Localization:
- Update German man pages translation.
- Update German scripts translation.
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