dpkg (1.10.2) unstable; urgency=low
* Make configuration files in $HOME work again
* dpkg + dpkg-static conflict with dpkg-dev << 1.9, to fix md5sum error
in dpkg-source. Closes: #151691.
* Remove -Z from patch call, in dpkg-source, as it makes patch warn about
missing timestamps. Closes: #151965
* Install debian/dselect.conffiles.
-- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 21:08:09 -0500
dpkg (1.10.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Add conflict with dpkg-iasearch which intruded on our namespace.
* Replace manpages-de which includes one of our manpages. Closes: #151485
* Don't always call autoheader when building. Closes: #151471
* Fix double conflict in dpkg. Closes: Bug#151581
* Move dselect methods to dselect package.
* dpkg-checkbuilddeps no longer checks for build-essential. dpkg should
not hardcode Debian policy.
* Make dpkg-genchanges accept ~ as part of a package filename.
Closes: Bug#150739
* Move dpkg.cfg and dselect.cfg manpages into dpkg package. Closes: Bug#132901
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Tue, 2 Jul 2002 12:34:07 +0200
dpkg (1.10) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg now reorders symlinks when extracting debs. However, this is also
still done when building debs. After a stable release of Debian has
occurred with this modified dpkg, the reordering when building can be
removed.
* Fixed upper/lowercase problems with package names. Closes: Bug#58091
(and 3 others).
* Add Russian manual pages
* Fix n in dselect package list (performs searchagain now)
* Fix layout problem in dpkg-divert manpage. Closes: Bug#103667
* When a package is set to hold, and a reinstallation is requested,
-E will not properly skip it. Closes: #45787.
* Make dpkg-checkbuilddeps use dpkg-architecture. Closes: Bug#104230
* Improve dpkg-archtecture documentation. Closes: Bug#104232
* Update German translation. Closes: Bug#97239
* Update Polish translation. Closes: Bug#115783
* Update French translation.
* Update Brazilian translation.
* Update Danish translation.
* Update Galician translation.
* Update Portuguese translations.
* Add Catalan translation
* Add German md5sum manpage
* Add Brazilian update-alternatives manpage. Closes: Bug#122132
* Improve dselect manpage. Closes: Bug#103839
* dpkg-name(1) no longer mentions the non-existing dpkg(5) manpage.
Closes: Bug#104214
* Improve handling of Recommends and Suggests in dselect. Closes: Bug#34942
* Add per-user configuration files. Closes: Bug#103845
* Split dselect into its own package. dpkg Pre-Depends on it
to make sure no weird things happen during an upgrade but this
will allow us to make dselect option at some point in the future.
Closes: #114249.
* Make colours in dselect user-configurable. Closes: Bug#103994
* Make Q do an abort in the method selection menu to make things more
consistent with the package list
* Fix test for nice(2) failure in start-stop-daemon. Closes: Bug#104561
* Improve the dselect helpscreen a bit. Closes: Bug#72634
* New version comparison routine that can handle arbitrarily large numbers
and accepts `~' as a low-sorting character. Closes: Bug#93386
* dselect now accepts regular expressions when searching for packages
and can search in package descriptions as well.
Closes: Bug#81009,#83139
* Move query commands into a seperate dpkg-query command. For the old options
(-L,-l,-s,-S) dpkg will still call it for you.
* Add configurable package listing support to dpkg-query
* Handle window resize in dselect main menu. Closes: Bug#98275
* update-rc.d moved to the sysvinit package. Closes: Bug#108887,#109282
* Add --showformat and --show options to dpkg-deb and dpkg-query to
allow one to customize the output format
* several install-info cleanups:
* Move /usr/info/dir to /usr/share/info/dir. Closes: #67174.
* If /usr/share/info doesn't exist, print a message saying so,
instead of the confusing "couldn't lock" error. Closes: #2531.
* If /usr/share/info/dir doesn't exist, or is empty, try to copy the
backup from /var/backups/infodir.bak. Closes: #121309.
* Add a --remove-exactly option, and allow for relative filenames.
Closes: #92650.
* Use the section from the .info file if --section is not given.
Closes: #76100.
* Error messages now include the filename being processed.
Closes: #66735
* /usr/share/info/dir now has it's entries formatted to even widths.
Closes: #11228
* --calign|--align|--maxwidth are now ignored.
* strip enoent as well. Closes: Bug#112378
* Fix format error in Dutch translation. Closes: Bug#113120
* When parsing stdin, md5sum now displays '-' as the filename, to match
textutils md5sum. Closes: #121489.
* Apply patch from bug, to give update-alternatives a --list command.
Closes: #120924.
* Make dpkg-checkbuilddeps always check for build-essential.
Closes: Bug#118420.
* Use space seperated output instead of comma seperated in
dpkg-checkbuilddeps
* Update default ignore expression in dpkg-source to also match *~ and
*.swp in subdirs. Closes: Bug#127458
* Handle errors when verifying md5sums. Closes: Bug#102367
* dpkg-source now uses reliable timestamps for changed files.
Closes: Bug#105750
* Fix typo in start-stop-daemon help message. Closes: Bug#131439
* update-alternative exits with a non-zero exit code when displaying
a non-existing alternative. Closes: Bug#131496
* Use gzip -c in install-info. Closes: Bug#131758
* start-stop-daemon works on HP-UX now. Closes: Bug#130130
* Fix dselect spin when run without input. Closes: Bug#132476
* Update-alternatives now correctly restores an alternative to auto mode
when removing a manually selected alternative. Closes: Bug#132632
* Copy bugs and origin information into status file. Closes: Bug#132714
* Improve wording of update-alternatives --config text. Closes: Bug#133035
* Add manpages for dpkg.cfg and dselect.cfg. Closes: Bug#132901
* Improve test for illegal packagename for dpkg-gencontrol -p option
* Fix segfault when getenv("PATH") returns null. Closes: Bug#136349
* Add Large File Summit extensions. Closes: Bug#130509
* Fix typo in dpkg-source manpage. Closes: Bug#141906
* Re-fix handling of multiple blank lines in control. Closes: Bug#143117
* Document --force-confmiss and --force-bad-verify. Closes: Bug#146855
* Drop upgrade compat stuff in dpkg postinst for ancient versions (over
5 years old)
* Always set CLOEXEC on the lock fd. Closes: Bug#147872
* Clean up tmp files when ctrl-c is sent to dpkg-source. Closes:
Bug#58653.
* dpkg-source no longer requires exact case matches for fields in
debian/control. Closes: Bug#139159.
* dpkg-scanpackages now gives proper case for Source and Installed-Size.
Closes: Bug#119532.
* dpkg-architecture: s/build on/built on/; same for 'build for'.
Closes: Bug#140441.
* cl-debian.pl now recognizes emergency as valid in changelogs.
Closes: Bug#138013.
* Properly count recursive expansion of variables, instead of just
counting all variable expansions. Closes: #144121.
* Add -I<filename> to dpkg-buildpackage and dpkg-source, to excludes
files from tar, when building a native package. Closes: Bug#75947.
* Close the old debian/files file, before doing a rename. Closes:
Bug#111503.
* Fix documentation of -v<version> for dpkg-parsechangelog, removing the
requirement that the version has to be in the changelog. Closes:
Bug#117968.
* Fix typo in dpkg-source(1), s/-su/-sU/. Closes: Bug#126340.
* Add dpkg-scansources to dpkg-scanpackages(8). Closes: Bug#147924.
* Change /usr/info into a symlink to /usr/share/info if possible
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jun 2002 21:53:15 +0200
dpkg (1.9.21) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix corrupt Swedish translations that would some error messages display
incorrectly.
* Enable --force-overwrite by default in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
* dpkg.cfg is now no longer a conffile. This means the installer can
change defaults depending on how an install is done
* Detect truncated debs, and abort the unpack. Closes: #138569.
* Improve dpkg(8) --force documentation
* Fix error in Russian dselect translation
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Thu, 16 May 2002 19:42:29 +0200
dpkg (1.9.20) unstable; urgency=medium
* Fix assertion when --auto-deconfigure is set. Closes: #137765.
* Fix segfault discovered by fixing the above.
* Fix segfault when getenv("PATH") returns null. Closes: #136349
* Recompiled against updated zlib, to fix possible security issue. Also
bumped build-depends to match. Closes: #137931(grave)
-- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Sun, 17 Mar 2002 02:52:44 -0600
dpkg (1.9.19) unstable; urgency=medium
* install-info continues to read all data from a pipe, until EOF.
Closes: #99816(grave).
* Add Catalan translation
* Update Danish translation. Closes: Bug#131869
* Update French translation.
* update-alternative exits with a non-zero exit code when displaying
a non-existing alternative. Closes: Bug#131496
* Changed Maintainer to debian-dpkg@lists.
* Fix "Up to date installed packages" for polish translation. Closes:
#116398.
* Swap updated/up-to-date polish translations(they were reversed).
Closes: #117583, #102961.
* Mark /etc/alternatives/README as a conffile.
* Strip .note, .comment, and /usr/lib/dpkg/enoent.
* Make dpkg-gencontrol not warn about Uploaders. Closes: #111090.
-- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Sat, 2 Feb 2002 11:47:34 -0600
dpkg (1.9.18) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix MD5Sum corruption when upgrading a package. Closes: Bug#113961.
* Add Wichert and I to debian/control:Uploaders.
-- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Sat, 3 Nov 2001 00:31:00 -0600
dpkg (1.9.17) unstable; urgency=low
* updated-rc.d moved to the sysvinit package. Closes: Bug#108887,#109282
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Wed, 22 Aug 2001 01:24:52 +0200
dpkg (1.9.16) unstable; urgency=low
* Revert architecture-change to dpkg-source from 1.9.11, see ChangeLog
for details.
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Thu, 5 Jul 2001 22:42:11 +0200
dpkg (1.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
* Change policy of handling dscformat in dpkg-source
* Fix the arglist construction for maintainer scripts
* Revert dscformat to 1.0 since older dpkg-source versions do not have
the new policy. In the future (starting at format 2.0 to maintain
compatibility with old dpkg-source implementations) minor changes to
the dscformat have to be fully backward and forward compatible.
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 16:41:43 +0200
dpkg (1.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
* Make the Uploaders field in a .dsc file optional.
* Disabled sanity checking of source packages.
-- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jun 2001 02:22:40 -0500
dpkg (1.9.13) unstable; urgency=medium
* Add a -W option to dpkg-source(and the other utils, where it is just
passed thru), to turn certain errors into warnings(of which, only
one is changed, namely, the 'tar doesn't contain preceeding directory'
error). Closes: #101813, and partially 101845.
* Don't error out if the files in the tar have leading './', for
dpkg-source. (another partial close of 101845).
* Handle the case where a single directory exists in the orig.tar.gz, but
it is NOT of the form <pkg>-<ver>. Closes: #101845.
* Set LC_ALL in dpkg-source when we call external programs when we are
going to parse their output. Another bug from 101845.
* Handle stating of truncated cpio filenames(100 char limit, bah), in
dpkg-source. Another bug from 101845.
* Add support for an Uploaders field, which is read from the first
paragraph of debian/control, and propagated to the .dsc. This lists
the people allowed to upload a package. If it is not set, then the
value of the Maintainer is placed into this field of the .dsc. This
bumps the .dsc format to 1.1. Closes: #101815.
* Handle symlinks in the tarball, and don't error out if found.
* in controllib, make warnerrors default to warnings. Affects
dpkg-source. This will be changed to be errors in the future.
-- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 13:48:52 -0500
dpkg (1.9.12) unstable; urgency=medium
* Fix do_script() bug. Closes: Bug#101552
* Fix building and extracting of certain kinds of source packages.
Closes: #101684.
* Added Colin Watson to THANKS.
-- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:27:03 -0500
dpkg (1.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
* The "Hang on to your hats, it gets bumpy from here." release.
* Trim trailing spaces from package names when checking builddeps.
Closes: #101304.
* Apply patch from bug to fix logic error that kept everything but
Build-Deps from working in checkbuilddeps. Closes: #101511.
* Apply patch to correctly check the output of gcc on hurd, for
dpkg-architecture. Closes: #99874.
* The internal pod docs in dpkg-architecture were updated to reflect
that -f was no longer implied when -q was given, but the build system
wasn't generating new documentation. Closes: #100997.
* deb(5) now has a see-also for deb-old(5). Closes: #99620.
* Fix dpkg-shlibdeps infinite directory recursion thru symlinks.
Closes: #97622.
* Set the Architecture to 'source' only when doing source only uploads
in the generated changes files. Closes: #100144.
* Document -nc in the dpkg-buildpackage manpage. Closes: #101038.
* Make dpkg-source work with GNU md5sum. Closes: #97666.
* in dpkg-source, when both arch: all and arch: <arch> packages exist in
debian/control, don't promote the source arch: to any, but only list
all and <arch>. Closes: #94608
* Apply patch from Colin Watson: Closes: #89679
* Reset SIGPIPE to DEFAULT when forking gzip.
* set LANG to C before execing cpio, as we parse its output.
* In checktarcpio() and checktarsane(), use the previously open pipes,
instead of the opening files on disk(which was the old, ancient way).
* Improve the output parsing of tar in checktarsane().
* warn instead of die when find returns an error(which happens if there
is a dangling symlink, because we use -follow). Closes: #51479.
* Change list of allowed urgencies in debian/changelog to: low, medium,
high, and critcial. Closes: #94475.
* Error out if an illegal package name is used in dpkg-gencontrol.pl.
Closes: #61211
* Apply patch from Marcus Brinkmann to dpkg-buildpackage: Closes:
#98201.
* Option -a implies option -d.
* Set ARCH correctly to host architecture, rather than build arch.
-- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 22:15:25 -0500
dpkg (1.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix [arch] parsing, and handle extra spaces better. Closes: #100512,
#101031.
* Apply patch from bug, to fix cleanup of dpkg-divert temp files.
Closes: #100474.
* Swap j/k keys on the main menu, so they function like the package
selection screen(and like vi). Closes: #100502.
* Multiple fixes in bug: Closes: #99892.
* s/DEAD_JOE/DEADJOE/ in dpkg-source.
* Switch to auto mode if alternative symlink is missing.
* Update Spanish translation
-- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jun 2001 14:57:45 -0500
dpkg (1.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
* The leading and trailing spaces patch in the last upload had some
issues with trailing spaces. This fixes them. No bug to close, as the
bts is still down.
-- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Wed, 6 Jun 2001 22:36:57 -0500
dpkg (1.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
* Remove leading and trailing spaces from versions, and check for
embedded spaces, inside dpkg. Closes: #99186.
* Handle varied use of spaces in dpkg-checkbuilddeps. Closes: #98899.
* Reset SIGPIPE back to default, in dpkg-source. Closes: #98563.
* Remove bogus $! check from dpkg-architecture. Closes: #99428.
-- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Sat, 2 Jun 2001 15:15:04 -0500
dpkg (1.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
* If a new file doesn't exist on disk, but is a going to be installed as
a directory, then don't error out. Closes: Bug#17381.
* Update japanese manpages. Closes: Bug#97831.
* Update it.po. Closes: Bug#98273.
* Fix bad cleanup in dpkg-divert. Closes: Bug#98578,#98828,#98831.
-- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Mon, 28 May 2001 18:59:03 -0500
dpkg (1.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
* Oops. EOF_mmap incorrectly detecting the end of the data block.
Closes: Bug#95981.
* After fixing the above bug, and using debootstrap to build a sid
chroot, I discovered that my previous dependency cycle fix could cause
segfaults in some situations.
-- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Tue, 1 May 2001 23:04:46 -0500
dpkg (1.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix compiles on ppc. Closes: Bug#95918.
-- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Tue, 1 May 2001 00:29:45 -0500
dpkg (1.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
* Recompile, to fix incorrect path 1.9.1/dpkg-divert. Closes: Bug#95845
-- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:21:28 -0400
dpkg (1.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix segfault with empty status and available, and when missing a
trailing new line. Closes: Bug#95496
* Make dpkg-shlibdeps not care if dpkg --search return with an error.
Closes: Bug#95568
* Fix corruption of user-defined fields in status and available.
Closes: Bug#95567.
* Changed dpkg.cfg to include no-debsig by default, as no debs are
currently signed, and we get false errors when debsig-verify is
installed. This will be removed in the future, when the archive tools
support package signatures. Closes: Bug#95573
* dpkg-buildpackage should only check for valid signinterface if the
user specifies one. Closes: Bug#95598
* Fix removing of diversions. Closes: Bug#95655
* Fix md5sum -c. Closes: Bug#95586
-- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 16:28:21 -0500
dpkg (1.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Things should mostly work OpenBSD 2.8 as well now
* Added a --status-pipe option.
* Fixed several memleaks.
* Profiled dpkg.
* Reworked lib/parse.c:parsedb(). Instead of using getc(), then
calling varbufaddc(), it now reads the entire file at once into a
huge buffer, then moves pointers around, to do the parsing. This
gave a speedup of 33% on a dual celeron 333, when reading status and
available.
* various other speedups.
* Removed all --smallmem code, as smallmem and largemem now actually
use about the same amount of memory, and largemem is faster. Both
--largemem and --smallmem are now obselete options, and will print
a warning if used. Closes: Bug#84905, #67528
* Initialize unitialized variables. This should solve several
segfaults. Closes: Bug#25317(plus 9 others, thru the beauty of
merges)
* Found that when working with dependency cycles, and part of the cycle
was a provide, the provider was not being considered, so the cycle
could not be broken. Closes: Bug#87985(and 3 others)
* Update German translation, Closes: Bug#80529,#80532,#87581
* Update French translation, Closes: Bug#65284,#85035,#87238
* Update Japanese translation, Closes: Bug#93873
* Updated all other translations (but no bugs filed)
* Add Danish translation
* Remove spurious '%s' in Polish translation, Closes: Bug#74814
* Add French manpages, courtesy of Philippe Batailler
* Ingore vim swapfiles in dpkg-source, Closes: Bug#81630
* remove --import option from dpkg-statoverride, Closes: Bug#81358
* Replace nfmalloc implementation with obstack. Added obstack.[ch] to
optlib, for non-GNU systems.
* dpkg-divert only allows absolute filenames now. Closes: Bug#82419
* Handle diffs from non-existing files to existing files. Closes: Bug#82708,
#90982.
* Small fixes to the buildsystem. Closes: Bug#84361
* Fix dpkg-statoverride --update for things other then plain files.
Closes: Bug#84449
* Fix race with source directory disappearing in dpkg-source.
Closes: Bug#45511
* Fix manpage for dpkg-gencontrol. Closes: Bug#84625
* Add -n option for dpkg-gencontrol to specify a filename. Closes: Bug#75796
* Use POSIX glob instead of regexp in debian/rules. Closes: Bug#83042,
#84582
* fix typo in usage message for dpkg-divert, Closes: Bug#85977
* Use full path for argv[0] when calling scripts. Closes: Bug#68783
* Add ia64 support to dpkg-architecture.
* Minor script changes, Closes: Bug#87485
* Stop dpkg-genchanges from complaining about missing packages
when doing a source-only build. Closes: Bug#87571,#15644,#25496
* Various dpkg-architecture cleanups. Closes: Bug#87505
* Modify dpkg-architecture to handle gcc versions containing letters.
Closes: Bug#83083
* dpkg-buildpackage updates: Closes: Bug#87572,#85847
+ make -C work properly
+ fix test for gpg secret keyring
+ improve source messages
+ skip signing pause when building unsigned packages
+ test for invalid signinterface. Closes: Bug#87579
+ remove debsign support, it's useless and doesn't work
+ Use correct architecture when naming .changes file. Closes: Bug#88015
* Fix wording in dpkg-statoverride manpage for --add. Closes: Bug#85080
* Fix typo in start-stop-daemon manpage. Closes: Bug#88225
* Add dpkg-checkbuilddeps to check if build dependencies are satisfied
and modify dpkg-buildpackage to call it if wanted.
Closes: Bug#86453,#83812,#60717,#74372,#67896,#60717,#13961
* dpkg-parsechangelog can read a changelog from stdin now. Closes: Bug#80142
* Fix confusing wording for dpkg-buildpackage -uc option in manpage.
Closes: Bug#83468
* dpkg-statoverride now exits with exitcode 1 if we do a --list but don't
output anything. Closes: Bug#84328
* Remove Linux reference from all scripts, they should run fine on
other OSes as well.
* Mark last argument in dpkg-scanpackages usage info as optional.
Closes: Bug#86658
* Fix cache in dpkg-scanpackages version comparison. Closes: Bug#90722
* Fix formatting error in dpkg-source.1. Closes: Bug#82723
* Change dpkg-gencontrol to fix comma-related syntax errors after
processing substvars. Closes: Bug#92908
* Verify package signatures if debsig-verify is installed. Closes: Bug#37017
* Handle window resize in dselect main menu. Closes: Bug#93559
* Initialize all parts of the package record. This should fix several
segfaults people have been seeing in dpkg. Closes: Bug#90328.
* Apply patch from bug#86847, that escapes intl chars in filenames.
Closes: Bug#83752, #85040, #86847, #89000.
* Errors during dpkg -s(and other similiar commands) are now printed
on stderr. Closes: Bug#88987.
* Add a --retry option to start-stop-daemon. Closes: Bug#75139
* Fix regeps to extract Closes magic from a changelog so the #
is really optional. Closes: Bug#94474
* Remove useless statement from dpkg-shlibdeps. Closes: Bug#90516
* Make the debian changelog parser identify itself with $progname.
Closes: Bug#89409
* Give a syntax error when we get an unexpected PGP signature in control
files. Closes: Bug#75562
* Change dpkg manpage to reflect that --force-statoveride is no enabled
by default. Closes: Bug#95023
* Handle dangling symlinks, by ignoring error code 1 from find, when
processing --recursive. Closes: Bug#4784
* dpkg -L, -S, -l, -s, and -p now return an error code if any package
does not exist. Closes: Bug#4974, #72406
* dselect has a configuration file as well now
* Get ENOENT value at runtime in dpkg-divert instead of hardcoding it.
Closes: Bug# 31620
* Fix wrong ENOENT test in dpkg-divert. Closes: Bug#95088
* Add support for more SuperH variants (sh[34]{,eb}-linux-gnu)
* Fix formating and a typo in the dpkg manpage
* Document the dpkg.cfg configuration file in dpkg(8)
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:39:16 +0200
dpkg (1.8.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Revert change to nfmalloc.c that was causing SIGBUS on sparc.
-- Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> Sat, 13 Jan 2001 08:52:11 -0500
dpkg (1.8.3) unstable; urgency=low
* Do chown before chmod in dpkg-statoverride, Closes: Bug#81943
* Fix recusion in dpkg-shlibdeps, Closes: Bug#81322
* Really completely revert dpkg-source patches which broke backwards
compatibility
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:02:22 -0800
dpkg (1.8.2) unstable; urgency=low
* Don't attempt to read from an input source when we only want 0 bytes.
Also handle buggy systems that return EAGAIN instead of EINTR. Closes:
#81881.
-- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:43:50 -0600
dpkg (1.8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Apply patch from bug to fix badly generated diffs(in some
circumstances). Closes: #81152
-- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Sat, 6 Jan 2001 16:07:33 -0600
dpkg (1.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Make --name a valid option. Closes: #31206, #51953.
* dpkg-deb -I <pkg> <control> works again
* Update Swedish translation
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jan 2001 19:31:13 +0100
dpkg (1.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Add -k|--symlink option to dpkg-name. Closes: #35040
* Made the accelerator keys in dselect's main menu separate options, so
that they can be translated separately. Closes: #50955.
* Added depends on sysvinit (>= 2.72), so that we can make sure that
/etc/rcS.d exists. Closes: #55037.
* update-rc.d: Changed documentation and help, as -f only applies during
remove. Closes: #55049.
* Added a --force-all option. Closes: #61354.
* Format help string for --abort-after like other option help strings.
Closes: #62464.
* Fix dselect methods to pass admindir to dpkg from dselect.
* Minor tweak so that when patch 2.5.4 is manually used to apply a diff,
it doesn't get applied multiple times. Closes: #65021
* Add --nicelevel to start-stop-daemon, to alter a programs priority
before starting. Closes: #65191.
* Document that --largemem is the default, and that the test point is
24 megs. Closes: #65607.
* Document that --set-selections does not actually install any
packages. Closes: #65340.
* Fix typo in dpkg-deb.1. Closes: #65945.
* Add --truename option to dpkg-divert. Closes: #68489.
* Documented COLUMNS in dpkg(8). Closes: #77001.
* Modified DPKG_C_GCC_TRY_WARNS() to call AC_SUBST, so that we can
use the result of the test during build time. Closes: Bug#75138
* Added description for "suggests" in main/depcon.c:describedepcon().
Closes: Bug#74113
* Removed bashing from dpkg.postinst.
* Make '#' optional in Closes: tags. Closes: Bug#63137.
* Add -t to -h output in dpkg-buildpackage: Closes: Bug#49598.
* Fix typo in --compare-versions error message. Closes: Bug#66474.
* -R doesn't mean --root. Closes: Bug#66068, #72013
* Add armv3l to archtable. Closes: Bug#72125
* Fix two memory leaks, and lesson the memory foot print a tad. Hints
taken from 74259.
* Fix some things perl5.6 complains about. Closes: Bug#77337
* Fix referenes to dpkg-deb manpage. Closes: Bug#77855
* Update Galish translation
* Add new --import option to dpkg-statoverride to make it easy to
import suidmanager settings.
* Speedup patches by Adam Heath
* statoverride fixes by Robert Luberda, Closes: Bug#78436
* Add Linux S/390 support. Closes: Bug#79063
* Using libz to decompress data instead of calling gzip.
Closes: Bug#49581
* Add gettext to build-depends
* Fix warning when trying to remove a non-existing statoverride.
Closes: Bug#79352
* Be more paranoid with file permissions when extracing files
* Apply statoverrides to more then just files
* Update update-alternatives manpage to use FHS instead of FSSTND.
Closes: Bug#80237
* List descriptions for udebs in .changes
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Mon, 25 Dec 2000 17:19:31 +0100
dpkg (1.7.2) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix parsing of configuration files
* Add new powerpc-linux-gnu entry to archtable. Closes: Bug#76522
* No longer bother to install emacs things. I don't use emacs myself
and can't support that properly.
* scripts/dpkg-shlibdeps.pl: Make it parse soname's in the format of
"libfoo-X.X.so" (e.g. libdb-3.1.so) and use it. Also make it give a
warning if there is a NEEDED line in the objdump output that we cannot
grok.
* scripts/dpkg-shlibdeps.pl: resolve library paths using a combination
of the libc major version, and ldconfig -p output. Solves problems
with errant libc5 deps.
* Correct name of .changes file when doing source-only builds
* Fix -ap option for dpkg-buildpackage. Closes: Bug#77305
* Fix typo in update-alternatives manpage. Closes: Bug#77829
* Fix typo in script-regexp update-rc.d. Closes: Bug#76029
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Thu, 23 Nov 2000 18:55:50 +0100
dpkg (1.7.1) unstable; urgency=medium
* Fix a typo in the dpkg-statoveride manpage
* dpkg-statoverride reads and writes the right file now
* Make update-alternatives use the right dir for alternatives again
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 01:16:39 +0100
dpkg (1.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Allow the administrator to override file mode and ownership using the
new dpkg-statoverride tool.
* Use objdump instead of ldd in dpkg-shlibdeps
* Fix logic in dpkg-shlibdeps so it looks for dependencies as specified
in its documentation
* Make update-alternatives update slave links with --config and properly
switch the alternative to manual mode
* HURD updates, Closes: Bug#57753,#57754,#57755
* dpkg-architecture: -q should not imply -f, Closes: Bug#57761
* add dpkg:UpstreamVersion and dpkg:Version substvars in dpkg-genchanges
and dpkg-gencontrol. Closes: Bug#62069,#64774
* dpkg-genchanges: add new Changed-By field to .changes with the last
person who made a change, and modify the Maintainer-field to be the
actual maintainer. Update the format-version to 1.7 to reflect this.
* dpkg-genchanges: allow a space between # and a to-be-closed bugnumber
* dpkg-deb: reorder files when building a package
* dpkg-statoverride: new tool to override ownership and modes for files
* Check COLUMNS environment for dpkg -l output. Closes: Bug#65536
* Add Origin and Bugs fields to the control file
* Install new /etc/dpkg/origins/debian file
* Corrections and updates to Swedish translation.
* Add Galician, German, Dutch and Brazilian translations
* archtable: add ia64 and sh; revert sparc64 so that it turns into sparc.
There wont be a full binary-sparc64 port. Closes: Bug#70788
* dselect/main.cc: small fixups to get it to compile with gcc-2.96
* Clean up fd handling in some places. Closes: Bug#69359,#69360,#69361
* Document -k option for dpkg-buildpackage. Closes: Bug#71808
* Install commented dummy shlibs.default and shlibs.override files
* Give dpkg a configurationfile
* dpkg-scanpackages now uses the most recent version if multiple versions
of a package are found.
* don't rename a file to itself in dpkg-source. Closes: Bug#75060
* Fix buffer overflow in cmdname handling in start-stop-daemon.
Closes: Bug#75103
* Don't abort if start-stop-daemon tries to read a non-existing pidfile.
Closes: Bug#75105
* Update formating of start-stop-daemon manpage. Closes: Bug#75110
* Make a missing package a warning instead of an error in dpkg-genchanges
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:28:39 +0100
dpkg (1.6.13) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Add Format-flag to .dsc format: we know we are going to change the
format in the next release, this change will make dpkg-source abort
with a reasonable error instead of doing unexpected things.
* Fix error in gettext'ized string
* Updated Czech, French, Polish and Spanish translations. Closes: Bug#63663
* debian-changelog-mode.el: fix documentation string for
debian-changelog-finalise-last. Closes: Bug#63003
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Mon, 8 May 2000 16:08:53 +0200
dpkg (1.6.12.99) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Pre-release for 1.6.13. which will only feature translation updates
* Fix typo in dpkg-divert, Closes: Bug#60243
* dpkg-genchanges: recognize non-deb packages (tarballs, such as
dpkg-non-deb and boot-floppies disk tarballs). This makes sure that we
include them when figuring out the Arch field in the .changes
* mark another string as translateable, Closes: Bug#62543
* fix location of --abort-after in --help output, Closes: Bug#62464
* fix allocation error in checkpath(), Closes: Bug#62364
* add Hold to list of desired package states in -l output, Closes: Bug#58765
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Fri, 21 Apr 2000 11:52:59 +0200
dpkg (1.6.12) frozen unstable; urgency=high
* Fix test for gpg/pgp in dpkg-buildpackage. You can now build
unsigned packages again. Closes: Bug#60395
* Updated Spanish and Swedish translations. Closes: Bug#41735
* Merge patch from Joel Klecker to remove emacsen-common stuff from dpkg-dev
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Mon, 3 Apr 2000 16:50:02 +0200
dpkg (1.6.11) frozen unstable; urgency=high
* Oops, missed one case where the libc/ncurses conflict reared its
ugly head and broke dselect miserably.
* fix syntax error in dpkg-divert. Closes: Bug#60050
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:52:07 +1100
dpkg (1.6.10) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* The `it rains in Sydney' release
* Mark another string in dselect as translateable, Closes: Bug#58618
* Fix typos, Closes: Bug#58619
* Change dselect keybindings slightly so `n' really does searchagain
* Updated Czech and Spanish translations, Closes: Bug#58617
* dpkg-divert.pl: reinstate last writeability-patch. Modified
to not abort on ENOENT: this indicates a directory does not (yet)
exist. If this happens don't try to rename. This should fix all
current dpkg-divert problems. Closes: Bug#59207,#58596
* update-alternatives: switch back to auto-mode when manually selected
alternative is removed, Closes: Bug#54933
* dselect no longer segfaults on SIGWINCH but does The Right Thing
instead. Closes: Bug#54303,#58697,#59419
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Tue, 7 Mar 2000 15:09:47 +1100
dpkg (1.6.9) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Fix typo in update-alternatives manpage
* dpkg-architecture: -q should not imply -f, Closes: Bug#57761
* Cleanup bits of install-info to make it more stable
* Fix Build-Dependency for ncurses, Closes: Bug#58073
* Some more documentation updates, Closes: Bug#57985
* Revert patch to check for writeable filesystems in dpkg-divert,
Closes: Bug#57840
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Fri, 18 Feb 2000 12:11:58 +0100
dpkg (1.6.8) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Turn --force-overwrite on by default
* Fix a couple of small buildsystem errors
* Support multiple adjacent newlines in control-style files, Closes: Bug#56056
* Updated Czech and Swedish translations
* Revert patch to change order of things when purging a package,
Closes: Bug#56374
* Handle failed open of /dev/tty in dpkg -l, Closes: Bug# 55041
* Update Japanese translations, Closes: Bug# 56641, #57494, #57595
* Update extended description for dpkg-dev, Closes: Bug# 56675
* Implement verbose option for update-alternative
* Fix conflicts handling
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:31:31 +0100
dpkg (1.6.7) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg compiles on HP-UX, Solaris and IRIX now
* start-stop-daemon can chroot now, Closes: Bug#54513
* Allow space between # and the bugnumber in the changelog
* Display package description with waddnstr, Closes: Bug#54313
* Updated Japanese manpages, Closes: Bug#54690, #55080
* Upload full source for packages with version *-0.1, Closes: Bug#54651
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Sun, 16 Jan 2000 18:36:10 +0100
dpkg (1.6.6) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg-buildpackage supports debsign, Closes: Bug#58333
* fix update-alternatives manpage, Closes: Bug#53859
* Updated Polish translation
* Pass admindir to dpkg, Closes: Bug#54039
* Fix dpkg -l output
* Remove dpkg-safelist again, it had issues
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2000 19:51:45 +0100
dpkg (1.6.5) unstable; urgency=low
* Update Spanish translation
* Don't strip 8th bit in dselect packagelists, Closes: Bug# 49061
* Don't use \z in dpkg-scansources, Closes: Bug# 53182
* Correctly unregister internals manual, Closes: Bug# 53200
* dselect helpessages can be translated now, Closes: Bug# 51381
* dselect UI tweaks, including a new --expert mode
* Added build-depends, Closes: Bug# 53394
* Added THANKS-file with people who have contributed to the code
* Use full width of tty in packagelisting, Closes: Bug# 53395
* Add -z option to dpkg-deb to set compressionlevel when building
packages, Closes: Bug# 53398
* Fix segfaults when producing a diff between current and new conffile,
Closes: Bug# 52197
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Sat, 25 Dec 1999 04:47:09 +0100
dpkg (1.6.4) unstable; urgency=low
* No longer byte-compile for emacs
* Add Swedish translation
* start-stop-daemon: honour --oknodo if we fail to kill a process
Closes: Bug#52580,#52185,#52457
* Fix dselect program description, Closes: Bug#52328
* Fix architecture-detection in dpkg-gencontrol, Closes: Bug#52616
* Accept single-number values in update-rc.d, Closes: Bug#46810
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Sun, 19 Dec 1999 16:27:48 +0100
dpkg (1.6.3) unstable; urgency=high
* Comment dselect changes from 1.6.2, they seem to have a problem
Closes: #52043,52058,52088,51437
* Really fix emacs-stuff. Hopefully. Closes: #51919,51525
* Fix copyright display in dselect menu, Closes: #52093
* Fix uid/gid-changes in start-stop-daemon, Closes: #52081
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Tue, 7 Dec 1999 17:06:00 +0100
dpkg (1.6.2) unstable; urgency=low
* New dpkg-scansources, Closes: #51888
* Fix default for elispdir, Closes: #51919,51525
* New manpages for cleanup-info and dpkg-divert, Closes: #51539, 46657
* Buildsystem updates, Closes: #51525, 51855, 51914
* Modify dselect behaviour for suggests and recommends
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Sun, 5 Dec 1999 19:29:50 +0100
dpkg (1.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix some slight packaging errors
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Fri, 26 Nov 1999 20:18:48 +0100
dpkg (1.6) unstable; urgency=low
* Major overhaul of the buildsystem
* Update Standards-Version to 3.1.0
* Move to version 1.6 to reflect the amount of changes made
* Fix mixup with Czech and Polish translations, Closes: Bug# 48986
* utils/start-stop-daemon.c: Added ability for user.group arg to
--chuid. Also, always call initgroups() when using --chuid.
* utils/start-stop-daemon.8: Document above change, also add note to the
--make-pidfile option concerning its problem with daemons that fork
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Thu, 25 Nov 1999 04:30:01 +0100
dpkg (1.4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix replaces for dpkg-dev
* Add gettext-support to dselect
* Added Czech and Polish translations for dpkg
* Fixed incorrect patch for --print-architecture (oops, oh well
it was already broken when there was no gcc anyway :)
* Fixed missing mipseb that was supposed to be in the archtable
* Better output in update-alternatives --config, now shows the
current, and the prefered choices.
* dpkg-name: ignore epoch when getting version
* 50dpkg-dev.el: add it as a conffile for dpkg-dev
* internals.sgml: Removed references to the versions of build tools,
they date the document.
* debian-changelog-mode.el: added hint for better log-email handling
* Added recognition for new source-depends fields for policy
referenced in bug #41232
* dpkg-buildpackage: add -ap option to force a pause prior to starting
the sign process. This helps for people who don't keep their signatures
on the filesystem (on a floppy perhaps, then mount as needed).
* minor script corrections
* dpkg-dev control: Change gcc to c-compiler in the recommends field, and
move cpio, patch and make to the depends line
* Leave file info intact in available when installing packages. MD5sum,
Filename, and MSDOS-Filename used to get lost when installing a
package.
* Added armv4l to archtable
* Added 'D' to the list of choices for conffile handling, closes: #48137
* Converted internals.sgml to debiandoc format. Also added a dpkg-doc
package that contains the generated output from this file (.ps, .html
and .info), includes doc-base support. Internals.sgml is also not
generated on the binary-arch target, and is no longer "byhand"
* dpkg-gencontrol: add "Source" to the fields placed in the control file
* dpkg-parsechangelog: fixed loop for parsepath (#48526)
* main/{processarc.c,depcon.c}: added new structure for conflictors,
which contains a struct for conflicts. This is used to create an array
of conflicting packages, which are going to be replaced. Allows for
multiple conflicts and replaces. All conflictor handlers were
converted to loops to handle each one (processarc.c).
* dpkg-divert: Fix check for writable filesystem, closes: #48646
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 1999 15:14:40 +0200
dpkg (1.4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
* Backout dep check patch
-- Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> Sat, 23 Oct 1999 00:39:24 -0400
dpkg (1.4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
* Add support for long filenames, along with --assert-longfilenames
* Added --chuid option to start-stop-daemon to allow switching to
a different uid when starting a process
* Add mipseb and mipsel to the archtable too, since mips and mipseb are
both viable names for the mips big endian arch, and mipsel is also needed
* Update dpkg-architecure's archtable
* Added --config option to update-alternatives to allow easy changing
of the registered alternatives for a specific name
* Updated the deb-control(5) man page with all the current fields
and uses
* Made the large info screen show 5 lines of the pkglist so that
it scrolled properly, and still showed the cursor in dselect
* Removed references to dpkg(5) which seems to not exist anymore
* Fixed `dpkg-deb --help' and dpkg-deb(1) from reporting --no-check
when it's actually --nocheck (went with the hardcoded option, so
this is just a documentation fix).
* Added better check in disk.setup for a working NFS server. Makes
it compatible with other non-Linux servers.
* Corrected dpkg(8)'s example of using dpkg -i (showed it used with
a .tar.gz instead of a .deb)
* Applied patch to correct improper TMPDIR handling in dpkg-deb
* When encountering an error in extracting the tar archives in the
packages, we should abort the install, not simply give an error
and continue.
* Make dpkg give the builtin arch if there was an error while exec()'ing
the C compiler with --print-architecture. We still fail if the
output from gcc was bad in some way, since they may be of importance.
* Removed the maintainer-configure portion in debian/rules, since
we should be shipping the source with all the auto* stuff
already generated anyway
* Removed the ltconfig patch, and resort to a debian/rules fix
to libtool itself after running configure
* Removed shlibs.default.i386. It's now a template for arch porting to
Debian/dpkg, we install it still, if there exists a file matching the
arch
* Reimplemented a better *stat cache for the removal checking code,
this helps a lot when doing upgrades where the packages are a lot
different in layout
* Increased largemem auto detection to >= 24megs, since it's not uncommon
for dpkg to actually use 16megs of ram all on its own when using the
largemem setting (old minimum was 16megs)
* debian/rules: chmod -x everything in /usr/lib to make lintian happy.
in the clean phase just rm -rf $(BUILD), we don't need to run
distclean and all that other stuff. Don't run "make dist", we
simply copy the .tar.gz that dpkg-source creates for the byhand
source.
* Make start-stop-daemon exit(1) when we don't find one of the
pid's we are trying to kill, in accordance with the man page.
* When running --configure on an already installed package, just
say it's installed, and not that it is in an unconfigurable
state
* Fixed some compiler warnings
* Make dpkg check for uid 0 requirement, before checking the path
since not being root, is probably the reason that the PATH is
borked in the first place
* Make -p short for --print-avail, and -P short for --purge
* Fix typo in md5sum(1) man page
* start-stop-daemon: Add --background and --make-pidfile options
* update-alternatives: make sure we remove "old" symlinks when they
are no longer pertinent. Add /etc/alternatives/README that refers
to the update-alternatives(8) man page.
* dpkg-divert: Add check for being able to write to the old/new
destination before doing a rename. We fail on this, without
changing the diversion registry
* Fix bad regex in update-rc.d
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Thu, 21 Oct 1999 17:49:03 +0200
dpkg (1.4.1.16) unstable; urgency=medium
* Hardcode ENOENT again since the errno-part of the POSIX module
isn't in perl-*-base. sigh.
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Fri, 15 Oct 1999 04:01:14 +0200
dpkg (1.4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
* non-maintainer release.
* Move dselect into its own package
* Remove conffiles before directories when purging
* Check if integrity from other packages will broken when processing
an archive
* dpkg-deb can handle package made with Linux ar.
* Add check to update-alternatives to see if the sequencecode is between
0 and 99
* Fix failed assertion, which was actually two bugs: a logic error in
checkforremoval and a wrong assumption in findbreakcycle
* dselect doesn't die when you resize the terminal
* check if a file is also in a new package before removing it when upgrading
* offer to show a diff between the old and new conffile
* dpkg-scanpackages: don't abort but only skip a package if we can't
open it
* Add HURD-support to start-stop-daemon
* Reinstate patch to not read available when doing --list-files
* Add a couple of --force options to handle changed conffiles
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Thu, 14 Oct 1999 04:20:56 +0200
dpkg (1.4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
* non-maintainer release.
* dpkg-source works again on empty diffs, Closes: Bug# 46159
* Install locale-files in /usr/share, Closes: Bug# 46631
* Make /usr/share/doc/dpkg-dev a symlink to /usr/share/doc/dpkg
* Actually include fix to make update-alternatives works filesystems (oops!)
* Check if codenumber is between 0 and 99, Closes: Bug# 46810
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Tue, 5 Oct 1999 19:19:05 +0200
dpkg (1.4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer release.
* NMU number 13, lets see what breaks :)
* update-alternatives works across filesystems now
* Make -sgpg work in dpkg-buildpackage (typo)
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 01:26:19 +0200
dpkg (1.4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer release.
* Fix typo in chmodsafe_unlink that made dpkg chmod files that
weren't setuid or setgid
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Sun, 26 Sep 1999 02:41:30 +0200
dpkg (1.4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer release.
* Added sparc64 to archtable
* Added entries for newer alpha architectures to the archtable
* Always run patch and diff with LANG set to C.
* Handle diff warning for files with no newline at the end of file
Closes: Bug#45642
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Fri, 24 Sep 1999 03:23:54 +0200
dpkg (1.4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer release.
* Build dpkg-scansources manpages using pod2man
* dpkg-buildpackage changes:
+ fix signinterface-detection
+ use gpg by default if $HOME/.gnupg/secring.gpg exists
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 15:36:43 +0200
dpkg (1.4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer release.
* Updated dpkg-scansources to current version from Roderick Schertler
* Update location of GPL in internals-manual
* Update location of GPL and dpkg copyright in all manpages
* Include patch from Roman Hodek for dpkg-source to handle diffs of files
with lines that begin with two dashes.
* Move dpkg-scansources to dpkg-dev package
* Move dpkg-scansources manpage to section 8
* Fix error that moved a lot of manpages to the dpkg package.
* It looks like not reading the available-file for listfiles was not greeted
with much enthiousiasm, so reverse the change.
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Wed, 15 Sep 1999 03:45:07 +0200
dpkg (1.4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer release.
* Merge dpkg-doc-ja
* Add patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> for dpkg-scansources
to skip comments in signatures. This allows packages to also use GnuPG.
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Mon, 13 Sep 1999 04:16:33 +0200
dpkg (1.4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer release.
* Use /usr/share/doc
* Merge changes from dpkg-iwj tree:
+ change section in dpkg-deb.1 to 1
+ Use COPYINGFILE instead of hardcoded GPL-location in showcopyright()
+ varbufprintf (used for some error messages) vsnprintf return value
assumption changed to correspond to reality rather than glibc-doc.
+ Don't read available-info when not needed (slightly improved from
dpkg-iwj: don't read for listfiles either :)
+ Cleanup --assert-* code
+ Assume largemem on systems without sysinfo(2).
+ modify preexec-script for easier script execution
+ Do not chmod(".../path/to/symlink",0600) causing many bad perms.
+ Sanity-check numbers for parameters
+ Move some logic from process_archive into wantinstall
+ Print '0' in dpkg-scanpackages if no packages found.
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Fri, 10 Sep 1999 04:06:32 +0200
dpkg (1.4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer release.
* scripts/dpkg-architecture.pl: Update to latest version.
* scripts/dpkg-architecture.1: Likewise.
-- Marcus Brinkmann <brinkmd@debian.org> Sat, 24 Jul 1999 18:24:21 +0200
dpkg (1.4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer release.
* (dpkg-dev): Use emacsen-common for debian-changelog-mode.el
(closes:Bug#20776,#31030).
* Removed references to the packaging and policy manuals from debian/control.
* Put debian-changelog-mode.el in dpkg-dev and remove from dpkg (closes:Bug#29271).
* Fix paths in 50dpkg-dev.el using Roderick Schertler's patch
(closes:Bug#28270,#29702,#26876,#29184,and others).
* Note that bug number 17367 was fixed in 1.4.0.26.
* Add Zack Weinberg's install-info patch for GNU install-info
compatibility (closes:Bug#28965).
* Add dpkg-architecture stuff from Marcus Brinkmann.
* Remove debian-keyring suggests from dpkg.
* Add -k<keyid> flag to dpkg-buildpackage.
* --textmode works in gpg, remove kluge from dpkg-buildpackage.
* Cleanup configure.in slightly (stop using tl_ macros, fix gettext stuff).
* Attempt to make Debian source useful for non-Debian systems
(i.e. distclean tree instead of maintainer-clean tree).
* Sync with wichert's 1.4.1.4.
* Add my ltconfig-1.3.2.diff (RPATH workaround).
* Add dpkg-scansources program and man page.
* Man pages in /usr/share/man.
-- Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org> Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:12:15 -0700
dpkg (1.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
* Also change developer-keyring to debian-keyring for dpkg-dev package
* Include spanish translation from Nicol嫳 Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
* Depend on perl5 instead of perl
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jul 1999 00:04:14 +0200
dpkg (1.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
* Modify tarobject() so it does not complain if we are creating a
directory that replaces a removed file. This works around the
problem that the filedatabase doesn't remember what filetype a
file was by assuming it already was a directory
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Mon, 31 May 1999 23:49:23 +0200
dpkg (1.4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer upload
* Rebuild, so this is glibc2.1 (unless you're on m68k), which is rumoured
to also fix the i8n-problems.
* Incorporate 1.6 format of .changes, patch from Guy Maor
* Fix bug in section-handling of dpkg-scanpackages, patch from Guy Maor
* Disable force-overwrites again, since we're in unstable
* Assume largemem on systems for which sysinfo is not available, Bug# 33658
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Wed, 26 May 1999 15:50:17 +0200
dpkg (1.4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer upload
* Install emacs-startup scripts with mode 0644 (lintian)
* Incorporate changes in NMU 1.4.0.32 made by Vincent Renardias
<vincent@waw.com> for slink:
+ Apply patch from Jim Pick for update-alternatives.pl to
fix 'Important' bugs #30891 in dpkg and (#27382, #27383, #27696,
#27703, #27736, #27097(merged bugs)) in jdk1.1.
* Incorporate changes in NMU 1.4.0.33 made by me for slink:
+ Fix illegal perl construct (Bug# 30985)
+ Initialize oialtname->useinstead and oicontest->camefrom to 0 (Bug# 30397)
+ Update shlibs.default for libncurses 4 (Bug# 30332)
+ Suggest debian-keyring instead of developer-keyring (Bug# 27376, 30248)
+ Abort dpkg-divert when attempting to divert a directory (Bug# 30126)
+ Make dpkg-deb.1 aware that it is in section 1, not 8
+ Fix section in reference to dpkg-deb in dpkg.8 (Bug# 29740)
+ Fix typo in --force-help (Bug# 26193)
+ Correct path for debian-changelog-mode.el (Bug# 24606)
+ Make disk-method for dpkg use /var/run instead of /tmp to fix
symlink-attacks (Bug# 21399)
+ Document -n and -f options for update-rc.d in manpage (Bug# 15913)
+ Add --abort-after option to change after how many errors we abort and
change the default to 50 (Bug# 22940)
+ Fix controllib.pl: don't check debian/substvars unless needed, and
don't depend on language settings (Bug# 31508)
+ Allow a - in the architecture-field (Bug# 25537)
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 00:44:01 +0100
dpkg (1.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Maintainer release by IWJ.
* Changed Maintainer: field description.
* Various changes to make the damn thing build.
* Add .cvsignore files.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Sun, 1 Nov 1998 17:33:38 +0000
dpkg (1.4.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg/processarc.c: Make newfileslist static like the other arguments
for register_cleanup's cu_* functions.
* N-th fix for controllib.pl (simulate old behavior by trying stdin,
stdout, and stderr for getlogin()).
* Enable --force-overwrite for slink release, and comment where to do
so (dpkg/main.c).
* Recompile against ncurses4.
-- Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:37:23 -0400
dpkg (1.4.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg-dev isn't allowed to have a Recommends: debian-keyring (as that's
in contrib), so it's now lowered to a Suggests: . Thanks to James Troup
for pointing this out.
-- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl> Sat, 26 Sep 1998 13:59:23 +0200
dpkg (1.4.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
* For now, prefer PGP over GPG.
-- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl> Tue, 22 Sep 1998 09:38:09 +0200
dpkg (1.4.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
* Added gpg (GNU Privacy Guard) support:
* scripts/buildpackage.sh: default to GPG (unless no GPG, but only a PGP
secret key file is found), as GPG, unlike PGP, is DFSG-free.
* Updated dpkg-source(1), and added gpg(1) and pgp(1) to the SEE ALSO
section.
* Worked around broken textmode implementation in GPG.
* dpkg-dev now Suggests: gnupg .
* No longer includes developer-keys.pgp . Instead, dpkg now Suggests: and
dpkg-dev now Recommends: developer-keyring.
* Compiled with latest libstdc++ (2.9).
-- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl> Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:17:14 +0200
dpkg (1.4.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
* REALLY fixed dpkg-dev, and new attempt to placate installer on internals.
-- Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> Fri, 27 Jul 1998 15:58:04 -0400
dpkg (1.4.0.26.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Binary-only upload for x86 and fixed dpkg-dev
-- Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:58:04 -0400
dpkg (1.4.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer upload.
* Make --root work with maintainer scripts (Patch by Scott Barker,
bugs #4863 and #3170).
* Fix $(lispdir) bug if compiling without emacs (noticed by Joey Hess).
-- Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 1998 12:02:04 -0400
dpkg (1.4.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer upload.
* Add the requested -nc option to dpkg-buildpackage (Do
not clean source tree, useful in debugging cycles).
* controllib.pl: Again by popular acclamation, fix the getlogin() warnings.
I redirected STDERR onto fd 0 before calling getlogin().
* tools.m4: Fix display of whether c++ works.
* dpkg-deb/extract.c: glibc 2.1 and some kernels want to make
fflush() move the current fpos. Until someone can fix that,
protect with seek.
* Add an extra 0, to dselect/{pkg,meth}keys.cc so it compiles again.
* Start using lchown() if available.
* Really fix #20353. (aclocal.m4 was the wrong place; that's a generated
file. The correct place is in tl_canon.m4.)
-- Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> Tue, 21 Jul 1998 03:14:14 -0400
dpkg (1.4.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer upload.
* dpkg/main.c: Turn --force-overwrite off as default.
* dpkg/main.c: don't list --force-overwrite as default in --force-help,
noticed by Peter Weiss <Peter.Weiss@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> and
others. [#23542, part of #17409].
* dpkg/dpkg.8: replaced with a newer version from Jim Van Zandt
<jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>. [#21061]
* dpkg-deb/build.c (do_build): add missing \n and improve error message
when conffile name is too long. [#7057]
* scripts/update-alternatives.8: replaced with better man page from
Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>. [#17283]
* scripts/dpkg-source.1: corrected logic error in documentation for
dpkg-gencontrol's -p option, as noticed by Oliver Elphick
<olly@linda.lfix.co.uk>. [#14655]
* scripts/controllib.pl (findarch): correct typo in error message,
noticed by Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>. [#22106]
* scripts/dpkg-buildpackage.sh: fix typo s/source version/source
maintainer/, noticed by Joey Hess <joey@kite.ml.org>, Adam P. Harris
<apharris@onshore.com> and others. [#10175, #15559]
* scripts/dpkg-genchanges.pl: applied patch from Roman Hodek
<Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> which solves problems with
architecture specific packages in mostly architecture independent
multi-binary source packages. [#14341, #20192].
* doc/Makefile.am: remove any reference to the packaging manual, as it is
now provided by the separate "packaging-manual" package.
* doc/packaging.sgml: removed.
* doc/developer-keys.pgp: updated to the current debian keyring.
* aclocal.m4: applied patch from Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org> to handle
egcs' --print-libgcc-file-name output. [#20353]
* debian/copyright: correct FSF address.
* debian/rules: add code from lesstif's debian/rules to make libtool
less of a fool (i.e. not use -rpath and to link shared libraries
against libraries it depends on). Code by Richard Braakman
<dark@xs4all.nl> and Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>.
* debian/rules: remove all reference to the packaging manual as it is
now provided by the seperate "packaging-manual" package. [#21581,
#21186, #22698, #23342]
* debian/rules: link dpkg-divert.1.gz to undocumented.7.gz as the lack
of a real manpage has been reported in #11093.
* debian/README.compile: removed gawk and bogus comment about gettext
being in experimental, as reported by Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>
[#23344]. Added libpaperg (debiandoc2ps needs paperconf).
* debian/shlibs.default.i386: updated for glibc, reported by Herbert Xu
<herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>. [#13140]
* debian/control (dpkg-dev): depend on perl as POSIX (not a part of
perl-base) is needed by most of the perl dpkg-* scripts, noticed by
Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>. [#22115]
-- James Troup <jjtroup@comp.brad.ac.uk> Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:38:52 +0200
dpkg (1.4.0.23.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer upload.
* dpkg/main.c: Turn --force-overwrite back on as default.
-- James Troup <jjtroup@comp.brad.ac.uk> Tue, 23 Jun 1998 22:19:26 +0200
dpkg (1.4.0.23.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* No real changes, only a new version code to make this go to frozen too.
-- Nils Rennebarth <nils@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 1998 17:29:58 +0200
dpkg (1.4.0.23) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer bug-fix release
* Update the disk method to the hamm directory structure (Bug#21000)
-- Nils Rennebarth <nils@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jun 1998 19:14:51 +0200
dpkg (1.4.0.22) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
* Non-maintainer bug-fix release
* Install main changelog file as `changelog.gz' instead of
`changelog.dpkg.gz' (Debian Policy, section 5.8) (Bug#6052,15157)
* Avoid use of /tmp/*.$$ in preinst and postinst (Bug#19712)
* Make sure diversions file is always created with mode 0644 (Bug#19494)
* When removing a file, chmod it to 000 if it's a char or block
device or remove its s[ug]id bits, if any (Bug#6006)
* Minor fixes in the programmer's manual (Bug#6206)
* Always create readable status and available files
(Bug#9869,11887,14636,15786,19146)
* Make dpkg-gencontrol honour -DArchtecture=xxxx (Bug#9893)
* Allow different archs for the same binary in debian/files (Bug#9894)
* Added workaround in /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/setup
to avoid bash warning (Bug#10111,10131)
* Recognize old .deb packages with other locales (Bug#12232)
* Added `SHELL=bash' to debian/rules: it uses bash-specific structs
* Move some files from dpkg to dpkg-dev (part of Bug#13295)
* Minor fix in packaging manual regarding to Standards-Version (Bug#14696)
* Fixed --altdir and --admindir in update-alternatives (Bug#15332)
* Strip /usr/lib/libdpkg* (Bug#15671)
* dpkg: send output of --help, --force-help and -Dhelp to stdout
(Bug#16051,18574)
* send correct signals with start-stop-daemon (Bug#17258)
* Make `dpkg-divert --test --remove' work as expected (Bug#19531)
* Determine properly the architecture if gcc is egcs (Bug#20353)
-- Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org> Sun, 5 Apr 1998 17:37:01 +0200
dpkg (1.4.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer release to include a new update-rc.d
* Fixed date on files in the archive from 2017 and 2018 by running
touch foo; find . -newer foo | xargs -r touch; rm foo
* Changed start-stop-deamon message "No <program> found; none killed." to
"No <program> found running; none killed."
-- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Thu, 5 Mar 1998 14:19:46 +0100
dpkg (1.4.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
* Disabled --force-overwrites.
* Removed core file from source
-- Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org> Tue, 9 Jan 2018 03:34:28 -0500
dpkg (1.4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
* Changed methods/disk.setup to use output of
'dpkg --print-installation-architecture' instead of hard-coded
'1386' (fixes #10995).
* Patched dpkg-source to properly quote metacharacters in strings
before using them in pattern-matching expressions (fixes #10811).
* Fixed several documentation typos (fixes #10764).
* dpkg-source now works around 100-character filename limitation of cpio
(fixes #10400).
* dpkg-source now properly handles '\ no newline in source' message from
patch (fixes #5041).
-- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 19:28:22 -0700
dpkg (1.4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg-source now uses new -z option to GNU patch (still needs to be
changed to detect and use old version as well) (fixes #9904, #10005, #10007).
* Added i686 to archtable.
* shlibs.default now uses xlib6 instead of elf-x11r6lib (fixes #9926).
* debian-changelog-mode now uses interruptible completing type-in fields
instead of the previous 'select-a-letter method'. I consider this
better and more standard than the previous way, but I'd welcome
opinions to the contrary. Consider this a 'probationary' change for
now (fixes #9873, #9874).
-- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org> Sun, 25 May 1997 09:56:08 -0400
dpkg (1.4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
* All of the dpkg binaries (but not dpkg-dev or dselect) now speak
french, thanks to patches from Christophe Le Bars <clebars@teaser.fr>
* Fix leading spaces before day in 822-date.
* Changes from Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk> to better support
building on non-Debian systems; minor Makefile fixes.
* Added 'ppc powerpc powerpc' to archtable.
* Changed documentation paper size to US/Letter instead of A4 (A4
may be better, but it's easier to print US/Letter on A4 than it is
to print A4 on US/Letter).
-- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org> Tue, 13 May 1997 15:24:31 -0400
dpkg (1.4.0.16) experimental; urgency=low
* Added generated sources to GNU-format source archive so it no longer
requires perl to build.
-- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 1997 17:34:29 -0400
dpkg (1.4.0.15) experimental; urgency=low
* Changed dpkg-genchanges to check for ($arch == $substvar{'Arch'}), not
($arch ne 'all') (fixes #9688).
* Fixed bug in start-stop-daemon.c (was using optarg after argument
parsing was over) (fixes #9597, #9603, #9364).
* Provide 50dpkg-dev.el for xemacs as well as emacs.
* Explicitly provide path for debian-changelog-mode in 50dpkg-dev to use
.el file as workaround until xemacs can read emacs19 .elc files.
* Pass top_distdir explicitly to 'make dist' to accomodate bug in
automake_1.1o-1.
* Fix debian/build to make html documentation without including
directories in tar archives (fixes #9348).
-- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org> Fri, 9 May 1997 13:17:18 -0400
dpkg (1.4.0.14) experimental; urgency=low
* Fixed buglet in install-info.pl (fixes #9438).
* Re-write of update-rc.d.pl, primarily by Miquel van Smoorenburg
<miquels@cistron.nl> (fixes #9434, #9436).
* Renamed "dpkg Programmer's Manual" to "dpkg Internals Manual".
-- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org> Tue, 6 May 1997 22:01:07 -0400
dpkg (1.4.0.13) experimental; urgency=low
* Fix to start-stop-daemon so that it still takes numeric arguments (had
been broken in 1.4.0.12) (fixes #9598).
* Fix 822-date to sanity-check localtime() output (seconds must be the
same as GMT).
* Patch from Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu> to dpkg-source.pl to support
pristine (MD5-equivalent) upstream sources.
* Patch from Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@calder.med.miami.edu> to
update-rc.d.pl to fix handling multiple start/stop entries on a single
line.
* Several fixes to dpkg-genchanges to support -B option (added in
1.4.0.12) (fixes #9340).
* Handle errors from 822-date in debian-changelog-mode.el.
* Changed cl-debian.pl to correctly handle extra whitespace in changelog
datestamps.
-- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 18:12:43 -0400
dpkg (1.4.0.12) experimental; urgency=low
* Re-wrote 822-date for clarity and to support timezone offsets >= 12h
(New Zealand in DST is +1300, for example) (fixes #7130).
* Patch from Juergen Menden <menden@morgana.camelot.de> to support
archdependent-only builds (fixes #8912, #9245, #5359).
* Fix archtable entry for powerpc (fixes #8794).
* Strip /sbin/* and /usr/sbin/* in debian/rules (fixes #8853).
* Moved start-stop-daemon to /sbin (fixes #8669).
* Set sharedstatedir and localstatedir for $(MAKE) install in
debian/rules (fixes #8852).
* Fixes for update-rc.d(8) from Jim Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>
(fixes #8576).
* No longer do variable substitutions when generating change file (fixes
#5862).
* Support symbolic signal names in start-stop-daemon (fixes #7715).
* Add autoload for debian-changelog-mode to /etc/emacs/site-start.d
(fixes #4519, #5841).
* Add recommendation for gcc and make in dpkg-dev (gcc is needed for dpkg
--print-architecture, used by dpkg-gencontrol; make is needed for any
debian/rules file) (fixes #8470).
* Minor changes to packaging manual section on source package
conversion (fixes #6801).
* Renamed "programmer's manual" to 'packaging manual'.
* Start of new "programmer's manual" containing information on dpkg
internals and build information. This manual uses the new
TeXinfo-SGML format, currently included in doc/.
* dselect/pkgdepcon.cc now checks for debug not NULL, not just depdebug.
* Changed makefiles to support building outside of source directory.
* Include GNU-format source distribution with other non-debian packages.
-- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org> Sun, 4 May 1997 11:08:19 -0500
dpkg (1.4.0.11) experimental; urgency=low
* Patches for alpha and libc6 from Michael Alan Dorman
<mdorman@calder.med.miami.edu>.
* Fixed minor problems in dpkg-shlibdeps regular expressions for libc6.
* Fix regex to detect directory creation in dpkg-source.pl.
* Minor changes for automake-1.1n.
-- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 1997 18:09:33 -0500
dpkg (1.4.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
* Fixed bug in controllib.pl (@fowner was entire passwd entry,
not just [uid, gid] as it should have been).
-- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org> Thu, 20 Mar 1997 13:06:52 -0500
dpkg (1.4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
* Check fputs() return values for (ret >= 0), not (ret != 0) (fixes #7522).
* dpkg-shlibdeps no longer gives error for Java and statically linked
binaries (fixes #4988).
* Change 'details of the old format' to 'details of the new format' in
deb-old.5 (fixes #7605).
* dpkg-source -b now warns (was previously silent) if maintainer changes
create new subdirectories. dpkg-source -x now warns (previously gave
error) if maintainer changes create new subdirectories (partially
fixes #6866, #6671, #5045, #6482).
* Added manual page for start-stop-daemon (8).
* Added C version of start-stop-daemon by
Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl> (fixes #1670).
* Converted to use GNU automake for the build process by Tom Lees
<tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>.<
* Preliminary support for dpkg functions as a shared library (now
provides libdpkg.so, but much work needs to be done in better
segregating and defining the interface).
* Preliminary internationalization support by Galen Hazelwood
<galenh@debian.org>. Only the library, dpkg-deb, md5sum, and dpkg
have been converted so far. No translations have yet been
constructed.
* Handle 'libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40010000)' format from libc6
ldd (fixes #7603, #7926, #8688, #9179, #9134, #8516).
* Removed policy.sgml (it has been moved to the debian-policy package).
* Include patch from Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com> for
dpkg-buildpackage to choose PGP key based on Maintainer: field of
package being built (or -m<maintainer> option, if present) (fixes
#7898).
* Changed controllib.pl to use $ENV{LOGNAME}, getlogin(), and $<
(in that order) to determine the intended ownership of
debian/{files,substvars}, (fixes #7324, #6823, #5659, #5965, #5929,
#9239, #5366).
* Don't sign .dsc file in dpkg-buildpackage if building a binary-only
release (fixes #7260).
* Updated developer-keys.pgp to latest revision (fixes #6134).
-- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org> Mon, 17 Mar 1997 16:11:24 -0500
dpkg (1.4.0.8) unstable; urgency=medium
* Corrected update-rc.d for bash 2.0
* Updated developer-keys.pgp from
http://www.iki.fi/liw/debian/debian-keyring.tar.gz
-- Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu> Mon, 3 Feb 1997 04:05:01 -0600
dpkg (1.4.0.7) stable unstable; urgency=HIGH
* Fixed --assert-support-predepends failing between unpack & configure.
* Added --assert-working-epoch option.
-- Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu> Sat, 25 Jan 1997 23:02:11 -0600
dpkg (1.4.0.6) stable unstable; urgency=high
* Patched lib/vercmp.c to hopefully fix dselect epoch processing
(Bug#6204), (Bug#4590).
* Patched scripts/dpkg-buildpackage, scripts/dpkg-genchanges,
scripts/dpkg-gencontrol for epoch processing, courtesy of Loic Prylli
<lprylli@graville.fdn.fr> (Bug#6138, Bug#5225).
* Patched dpkg-genchanges to actually honor the -u switch to specify
directory (Bug#5564).
* Applied patch to main/archive.c to correct problems setting set[gu]id
binaries, courtesy of Herbert Xu <herbert@greathan.apana.org.au>
(Bug#5479).
* Applied patch to dpkg-source to correct debian-only package names,
courtesy of Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu> (Bug#5355).
-- Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@calder.med.miami.edu> Thu, 2 Jan 1997 11:36:09 -0500
dpkg (1.4.0.5) stable frozen unstable; urgency=medium
* Distribution for frozen too.
-- Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de> Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:13:42 +0100
dpkg (1.4.0.4) stable unstable; urgency=medium
* Bug2962 fixed: patch from Ian Jackson applied
(cursor keys won't work after search)
* Manuals 2.1.2.2
-- Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de> Fri, 15 Nov 1996 20:21:18 +0100
dpkg (1.4.0.3) unstable; urgency=medium
* dpkg-source -x: created bad permissions (set x-bit for
all files pointed to by a symlink)
-- Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de> Fri, 18 Oct 1996 18:32:06 +0200
dpkg (1.4.0.2) unstable; urgency=medium
* dpkg-buildpackage.sh: reverted the quoting change -- (you
should use super, sudo, realy, but not su. Or write a wrapper
around su)
* dpkg-buildpackge.sh: passing -m, -C, -v options to dpkg-genchanges
more the way Ian likes ;-)
* dpkg-source.pl: new function deoctify() as replacement for eval()
(turn \ddd into the corresponding character) [rem: probably better
solution would be to convert cpios output names into complete \ddd
representation as well tars output names]
* dpkg-source.pl: fixed 2 typos in failure message on creating
$origtargz.tmp-nest.
* main/main.c: typo `tread' -> `treat'
* main/enquiry.c: fixed the ignorance for some relations in --compare-versions
* main/enquiry.c: missing version is now handled as described in `dpkg --help'
(or at least as I understood `dpkg --help' PLEASE TRY IT)
* lib/parsehelp.c: fixed parsing of epoch information
-- Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de> Sun, 6 Oct 1996 23:27:47 +0200
dpkg (1.4.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
* dpkg-source: doesn't get screwed up from hardlinks
in the archive now
* dpkg-source: doesn't get screwed up from `unprintable' characters
in file names (e.g. from the kbd package)
* controllib.pl: $varlistvile -> $varlistfile (thanx Karl Sackett)
* dpkg-buildpackge: quoting for $rootcommand (thanx Michael Meskes)
and `eval' as default $rootcommand
* dpkg-*, controllib.pl: created debian/files and debian/substvars
are chown'ed to `getlogin()' and its group
* doc/: mv changed to mv -f
* dpkg-buildpackage: added an option -a for overriding the
architecture in the changes _file_name_
* dpkg-buildpackage: pass -m* -v* .. options to dpgk-genchangelog
* dpkg-name moved to dpkg-dev
-- Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de> Sat, 21 Sep 1996 22:06:01 +0200
dpkg (1.4.0) unstable; urgency=low (HIGH for new source format)
* Corrected buffer overrun when dpkg-deb generates filename. (Bug#4467.)
* dpkg-shlibdeps works with DEBIAN/shlibs (thanks Heiko Schlittermann).
* Added libm.so.5 to shlibs.default for i386/m68k.
* Split binary package into two: dpkg and dpkg-dev.
* dpkg-source(1) documents mode and ownership setting during extraction.
* dpkg-scanpackages moved to /usr/bin.
* Include /usr/bin/dpkg-deb, not dpkg-deb.dist; don't rename in scripts.
* Copyright file changed slightly.
* debian-changelog-mode uses magic key substitution strings. (Bug#4419.)
* Changed email address in control file to <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>.
* Manuals and own Standards-Version: updated to 2.1.1.0.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:13:33 +0100
dpkg (1.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg-buildpackage new -tc (clean source tree) option.
* Formatted documentation removed by `make clean' and so not in source.
* Manuals and own Standards-Version: updated to 2.1.0.0.
* Distribute {policy,programmer}.{html.tar,ps}.gz with each upload.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 20:43:40 +0100
dpkg (1.3.13) unstable; urgency=low (HIGH for building new src X programs)
* X shared libraries added to shlibs.default (=> `elf-x11r6lib').
* dpkg-source tar invocation fixed so that TAPE env var doesn't break it.
* dpkg-source copes better with missing final newline messages from diff.
* dpkg-buildpackage usage message fixed: -si is the default. (Bug#4350.)
* dpkg-source error message about src dir mismatch typo fixed. (Bug#4349.)
* dpkg-source(1) has suggestions for dpkg-buildpackage -r option.
* dpkg-source change date fixed. (Bug#4351.)
* More developers' keys.
* Manual updates, own Standards-Version updated.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:08:18 +0100
dpkg (1.3.12) unstable; urgency=medium
* dpkg prints old version number when upgrading. (Bug#4340.)
* dpkg-deb tries to detect and flag corruption by ASCII download.
* dpkg-genchanges and dpkg-buildpackage say what source is included.
* dpkg-buildpackage passes +clearsig=on to PGP (or pgpcommand). (Bug#4342.)
* dpkg-source prints better error for cpio not honouring -0t.
* control file Suggests cpio >= 2.4.2, rather than just cpio.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 30 Aug 1996 15:31:51 +0100
dpkg (1.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
* EBUSY when dpkg removes a directory is only a warning.
* dpkg-genchanges generates sensible warning (not confusing error
about mismatch) for missing Section/Priority in binary packages.
* Added dpkg --print-gnu-build-architecture option.
* shlibs.default for m68k provided, as a copy of i386 version.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Thu, 29 Aug 1996 14:05:02 +0100
dpkg (1.3.10) unstable; urgency=medium
* dpkg-source(1) manpage alias symlinks are not dangling.
* dselect selects things by default if they are installed.
* Added `pentium' as alias for `i386' architecture.
* Added `Suggests: cpio, patch' and explanatory text to Description.
(Bugs #4262, #4263.)
* More developers' PGP keys.
* Manual updates, new source format released.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:30:44 +0100
dpkg (1.3.9) unstable; urgency=low (high for new source format)
* dpkg --get-selections and --set-selections added.
* New dpkg --force-not-root flag.
* Don't replace directory with another package's file. (Bug#4202.)
* All manpages now installed compressed.
* Copyright file moved to /usr/doc/dpkg/copyright.
* Standards-Version updated (0.2.1.1).
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 19:09:30 +0100
dpkg (1.3.8) unstable; urgency=low (high for new source format)
* dpkg-buildpackage -sa, -si options work correctly.
* update-rc.d(8) updated to reflect design and reality.
* Programmers' and policy manual updates.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:26 +0100
dpkg (1.3.7) unstable; urgency=low (medium for source pkg docs)
* dselect +/-/_/= on lines for all broken, new, local or whatever
packages do not affect _all_ packages. (Bug#4129.)
* Support for diff-only uploads in source packaging tools.
* dpkg-genchanges -d<descripfile> option renamed to -C.
* dpkg-buildpackage understands -m, -v, -C (for dpkg-genchanges).
* Support for debian/shlibs.local added to dpkg-shlibdeps.
* Shared library files' search order defined in dpkg-source(1), and
relevant files added to the FILES section.
* Programmers' manual describes source packaging tools.
* Policy manual mentions shared library control area file.
* dpkg-source manpage includes dpkg-shlibdeps in title line.
* Manuals have changelog and automatic version numbering.
* changelogs (for dpkg and for manuals) installed.
* binary target split into binary-arch and binary-indep in manual.
* Manpages should be compressed.
* Copyright file is moved to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright.
* Changelogs must be installed in /usr/doc/<package>.
* dpkg-deb(8) moved to dpkg-deb(1).
* binary target split into binary-arch and binary-indep in source.
* changelog entry for 1.2.14 copied from that (forked) release.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Thu, 22 Aug 1996 15:36:12 +0100
dpkg (1.3.6) experimental; urgency=low (HIGH for new source format)
* dpkg-source now has broken argument unparsing for tar. (Bug#4195.)
* dpkg-gencontrol writes to debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control by default.
* dpkg-shlibdeps script added.
* Back to old sh update-rc.d, and removed manpage, because new Perl
version and the manpage have different syntax and semantics.
* update-rc.d prints usage message for missing terminal `.'. (Bug#4122.)
* Use rm -rf instead of just rm -r in dpkg-deb --info &c. (Bug#4200.)
* Added support for Installed-Size to dpkg-gencontrol, and documented.
* Source packaging substitution variables and name syntax rationalised.
* dpkg-source scripts' usage messages improved slightly.
* dpkg-source works with non-empty second (orig dir) argument.
* Added rationale for copyright policy to manual.
* More developers' PGP keys.
* Control database handling cleanups (usu. Source field blanked).
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Tue, 20 Aug 1996 15:39:58 +0100
dpkg (1.3.5) experimental; urgency=low (high for debian-changelog-mode)
* 822-date script included. (Bug#4136.)
* debian-changelog-add-version works on empty file.
* debian-changelog-mode mode-help works properly.
* dpkg-source tells patch not to make numbered backups. (Bug#4135.)
* More developers' PGP keys.
* Paragraph on uucp -a and -g options removed from policy manual.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 14 Aug 1996 14:46:47 +0100
dpkg (1.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
* Removed debugging output from dpkg-source -x. Oops.
* Removed section on source package permissions from policy manual -
dpkg-source now sorts these out.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 11 Aug 1996 13:25:44 +0100
dpkg (1.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
* Programmers' & policy manuals in source tree; HTML in /usr/doc/dpkg.
* Old guidelines.info and text files in /usr/doc/dpkg removed.
* dpkg-source sets permissions on extracted debianised source tree
and does not copy ownerships out of archive even if running as root.
* Emacs mode `dpkg changelog' renamed to `Debian changelog'.
* Default changelog format renamed from `dpkg' to `debian'.
* debian-changelog-mode sets fill-prefix correctly.
* debian-changelog-mode urgencies except HIGH lowercase by default.
* debian-changelog-mode displays keymap in doc string and so mode help.
* More maintainers' PGP keys.
* Remove built changelog parsers with `clean' target in source.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 10 Aug 1996 23:35:51 +0100
dpkg (1.3.2) experimental; urgency=LOW (MEDIUM for dpkg-source)
* Faster update-rc.d written in Perl by Miquel van Smoorenburg.
* install-info --test doesn't lock dir. (Bug#3992, thanks Darren).
* dpkg-source doesn't break in the presence of any symlinks.
* More developers' keys added to doc/developer-keys.pgp.
* Install developers' keys in /usr/doc/dpkg/developer-keys.pgp.
* dpkg-source documents undefined substvar behaviour.
* minor debian/rules cleanups.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 10 Aug 1996 02:13:47 +0100
dpkg (1.3.1) experimental; urgency=LOW
* manpage for dpkg-source et al now available.
* dpkg-changelog-mode.el installed in site-lisp, but still no autoload.
* dpkg-source prints correct string for not-understood tar -vvt output.
* dpkg-source parsing of tar -vvt output made more robust.
* dpkg-buildpackage prints usage message on usage error.
* dpkg-gencontrol can print usage message.
* -T<varlistfile> option added to dpkg-source.
* Description of -f<fileslistfile> corrected in dpkg-distaddfile usage.
* -m<maintainer> synopsis changed in dpkg-genchanges usage.
* debian/substvars may now contain blank lines.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Thu, 8 Aug 1996 02:36:04 +0100
dpkg (1.3.0) experimental; urgency=LOW
* dpkg can install named pipes.
* dpkg-deb supports directory for destination, generates filename.
* dpkg-{source,gencontrol,genchanges,parsechangelog,buildpackage},
dpkg-distaddfile scripts to support new source package format.
* a.out build no longer supported.
* Changed to new source package format.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Tue, 6 Aug 1996 02:31:52 +0100
dpkg (1.2.14) stable unstable; urgency=MEDIUM
* dselect +/-/_/= on lines for all broken, new, local or whatever
packages do not affect _all_ packages. (Bug#4129.)
* NOTE - THE HISTORY FORKS HERE. 1.2.14's change appears in 1.3.7.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Thu, 22 Aug 1996 00:39:52 +0100
dpkg (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=LOW
* dpkg --search produces correct output for diversions.
* dpkg-name remove unnecessary arch missing warning. (Bug#3482.)
* dpkg-deb --build warns about uppercase chars in package name.
* dpkg-scanpackages error messages updated and manpage provided
(thanks to Michael Shields).
* dpkg-scanpackages warns about spurious entries in override file.
* dpkg-scanpackages `noverride' renamed to `override' everywhere.
* dpkg-scanpackages field ordering to put Architecture higher.
* dpkg-scanpackages field names capitalised appropriately.
* dpkg-scanpackages invokes find with -follow. (Bug#3956.)
* guidelines say #!/usr/bin/perl everywhere, not #!/bin/perl.
* Many developers' PGP keys added.
* configure script uses ${CC} instead of $(CC) (again :-/).
* developers' keys included in dpkg source tree and /usr/doc.
* configure remade using autoconf 2.10-3 (was 2.4-1).
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Thu, 1 Aug 1996 02:46:34 +0100
dpkg (1.2.12); priority=LOW
* dpkg --search and --list understand and comment on diversions.
* dpkg-divert displays diversions more intelligibly.
* Guidelines are somewhat clearer about descriptions.
* deb(5) describes new format; old moved to deb-old(5). (Bug#3435.)
* deb-control(5) carries a warning about being out of date.
* Added 1996 to dselect version/copyright.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Thu, 4 Jul 1996 15:04:49 +0100
dpkg (1.2.11); priority=MEDIUM
* dselect had dependency bug if installed package newer than avail.
* Added `replaces' to dselect's list of package relationship strings.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 1 Jul 1996 02:51:11 +0100
dpkg (1.2.10); priority=MEDIUM
* Fixed bug in old-style version/revision number parsing. (Bug#3440.)
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 29 Jun 1996 03:32:45 +0100
dpkg (1.2.9); priority=MEDIUM
* Fixed status database updates reading bug.
* `Setting up' message includes version number.
* `existence check' message changed to say `cannot access archive'.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Thu, 27 Jun 1996 13:39:36 +0100
dpkg (1.2.8); priority=LOW
* dpkg --record-avail puts data in Size field.
* strip / for rmdir(2) in cleanup to work around kernel bug. (Bug#3275.)
* dpkg-split --msdos no longer allows `-' and other chars in filenames.
* manual dpkg-split(8) written.
* dpkg-split minor typo in --auto usage error message fixed.
* dpkg-deb(8) very minor cosmetic fix to --build option.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Tue, 25 Jun 1996 03:00:14 +0100
dpkg (1.2.7); priority=LOW
* dpkg-scanpackages syntax errors fixed.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 21 Jun 1996 04:10:38 +0100
dpkg (1.2.6); priority=MEDIUM
* NFS, CDROM and partition dselect methods include mountpoint
in paths given to dpkg in [I]install, so they should now work.
* Removed some leftover files from source tree.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 12 Jun 1996 14:35:19 +0100
dpkg (1.2.5); priority=MEDIUM
* Allow, but do not create, packages in half-installed state
with no version number. (Aargh.)
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 10 Jun 1996 04:55:43 +0100
dpkg (1.2.4); priority=MEDIUM
* New dpkg-name from Erick (<pkg>_<version>_<arch>.deb convention).
* Disappeared packages can't own conffiles any more ! (Bug#3214.)
* install-info creates Miscellaneous sections with a newline
following the heading. (Bug#3218.)
* cleanup-info script installed in /usr/sbin; called as appropriate
by postinst. Thanks to Kim-Minh Kaplan. (Bug#3125.)
* Allow superseded Essential packages to be purged after they've
been removed (clear the Essential flag on removal, and ignore it
on packages that are in stat_configfiles).
* dselect disk methods understand `y' as well as `yes' for using
development tree.
* dselect doesn't make packages appear as `new' again if update
of available packages fails.
* dselect places method selection cursor over option last selected.
* dpkg-scanpackages doesn't die when repeated packages are found.
* dpkg-scanpackages allows many old maintainers (`//'-separated).
* `Version' field is now mandatory (some operations already
wouldn't work right anyway if it was't there).
* update-rc.d(8) now says you must remove the script. (Bug#3215.)
* dpkg --force-help says that --force-overwrite is on by default.
* dpkg-deb manpage rewritten.
* debian.README (= /usr/doc/copyright/dpkg) edited slightly.
* Some database parsing grunge removed (pdb_preferversion, &c).
* Source tree doc/sgml contains some embryonic manuals.
* Leftover files in lib directory in source tree deleted.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 10 Jun 1996 03:52:01 +0100
dpkg (1.2.3); priority=HIGH
* install-info doesn't replicate section headings (Bug#3125, #2973).
* New dpkg-name manpage broken off from script (oops!).
* dselect help screens made consistent with new strings, flags, &c.
* dselect error flag column labelled E (Error), not H (Hold).
* `Escape' no longer bound to `exit list without saving' in dselect.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Tue, 28 May 1996 02:14:57 +0100
dpkg (1.2.2); priority=MEDIUM
* Fixed dselect coredump found by Erick Branderhorst (thanks).
* Sort obsolete removed packages separately, not under Available.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Thu, 23 May 1996 21:31:05 +0100
dpkg (1.2.1); priority=MEDIUM
* `=' key in dselect really does `hold' rather than `unhold'.
* dselect dependency processing now interacts better with `hold'.
* dselect `I' key (not `i') modifies display of the info window.
* dselect shows unavailable packages as being unavailable.
* dselect main menu headings and many other strings changed to try to
discourage people from deselecting every package and using [R]emove.
Notably, `select' changed to `mark' throughout.
* dselect disk methods now print a few fewer double slashes.
* dselect disk access methods will offer to use dpkg --record-avail
to scan the available packages, if no Packages file is found.
* New dpkg --compare-versions option, for the benefit of scripts &c.
* New dpkg --clear-avail option forgets all available packages info.
* New dpkg --print-avail option, prints `available' data (from Packages, &c).
* dpkg usage message is more informative, but no longer fits on screen.
* dpkg --avail option renamed --record-avail.
* Latest dpkg-name from Erick Branderhorst.
* dpkg-scanpackages has more sensible problem reporting.
* postinst configure now gets null argument (not <unknown> or <none>)
when there is no previously configured version.
* Guidelines say that postinst configure is given previous version.
* Guidelines don't refer to maintainer-script-args.txt in main text.
* Guidelines (Texinfo source) uploaded separately.
* Own version of strcpy (used for debugging) removed.
* Interface to access methods document in source (doc/dselect-methods.txt).
* debian.buildscript moves changes file into parent directory.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 22 May 1996 01:26:31 +0100
dpkg (1.2.0); priority=MEDIUM
* dselect can sort packages by available and installed states, and
display their version numbers. (Use O, o and V.)
* Hold is properly integrated as a real `wanted state', rather than
a separate flag.
* Epochs in version numbers implemented, using the syntax
<epoch>:<version>-<revision>. (Epoch not usually displayed.)
* dselect disk method is architecture-independent (uses dpkg's
installation architecture, and looks in the right part of the tree).
* dselect disk method doesn't try to satisfy the predependencies of
packages which are on hold.
* Fixed conflict-related assertion failure. (Bug#2784.)
* conffiles do not cause file conflicts if the conflicting package
is in the `configuration only' state. (Bug#2720.)
* Fixed messages where available version number was reported as installed
version in conflict and dependency messages. (Bug#2654, Bug#2974.)
* New format .deb files are default even for a.out compiles (but
a.out version of dpkg is in old format).
* Characters @:= (at colon equals) in package names now strictly
forbidden everywhere (_ is still allowed in existing packages).
* New dpkg --print-installation-architecture option prints installation
architecture (compiled in), rather than build architecture (determined
from gcc -print-libgcc-file-name).
* Version messages show whether compiled a.out or ELF (i386 only).
* Fixed missing space in version syntax error messages.
* Manpage dpkg.8 installed with warning about inaccuracy.
* Guidelines don't say to stop and restart daemons in runlevels 2345;
instead they say to start in 2345 and stop in 016.
* Guidelines and version messages say just Debian Linux.
* Guidelines typo fix `"stop2' => `"stop"'. (Bug#2867.)
* doc/Makefile.in clean properly deletes various guidelines.info* files.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Thu, 16 May 1996 00:01:21 +0100
dpkg (1.1.6); priority=MEDIUM
* Check virtual dependencies when removing (ouch! - thanks SDE.)
* Fixed bug in internal database validity management that could
make dselect and dpkg dump core. (Bug#2613.)
* Fixed two coredumping bugs when using local diversions. (Bug#2804.)
* Fixed disappearance of overwritten packages. (Bug#2696.)
* install-info won't modify dir file before start of menu.
* install-info will create Miscellaneous heading if no sections yet.
* Only alphanums and +-. allowed in package names - enforced by
dpkg-deb --build and documented in Guidelines.
* dselect doesn't display packages unless they are installed, selected
or available.
* dselect doesn't show spurious section and priority headings.
* dselect has a few extra keybindings (from Lee Olds).
* --force message changed to `--force enabled' so that default is OK.
* dpkg-name now includes architecture component in .deb filename,
and translates - in package name to _.
* .deb file has architecture component in filename.
* Guidelines changed to say Pre-Depends is for experts only.
* Guidelines say to provide a unidiff (-u) rather than an old context diff.
* Guidelines say 755 root.root for shared libraries.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 1 May 1996 00:47:22 +0100
dpkg (1.1.5); priority=MEDIUM (HIGH for diversions users)
* Fixed coredump when using diversions. (Bug#2603.)
* Fixed typo in dpkg-divert which could lose diversions. (Bug#2662.)
* --force-overwrite is the default.
* diversions.text provides better examples.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:59:30 +0100
dpkg (1.1.4); priority=MEDIUM
* Allow overwriting of conflicting packages being removed. (Bug#2614.)
* a.out control file says Pre-Depends: libc4 | libc. (Bug#2640.)
* ELF control file and libc dependencies changed to use finalised scheme.
* ELF control file and libc dependencies for i386 only. (Bug#2617.)
* Guidelines say use only released libraries and compilers.
* Install wishlist as /usr/doc/dpkg/WISHLIST.
* Remove spurious entries for Guidelines in info dir file.
* dpkg-deb --build checks permissions on control (DEBIAN) directory.
* Spaces in control file fields not copied by dpkg-split. (Bug#2633.)
* Spaces in split file part control data ignore. (Bug#2633.)
* Portability fixes, including patch from Richard Kettlewell.
* Fixed minor configure.in bug causing mangled GCC -W options.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Thu, 4 Apr 1996 01:58:40 +0100
dpkg (1.1.3); priority=LOW
* dselect disk methods support Pre-Depends installation ordering.
* When dpkg fails and --auto-deconfigure would help it says so.
* dpkg --search output lists several packages with same file on one line.
* Improved dpkg usage message somewhat.
* dpkg-deb --build checks permissions and types of maintainer scripts.
* dpkg-deb --build treats misspecified conffiles as error, not warning.
* dpkg --print-architecture prints compiler's architecture while
dpkg --version (&c) print system's arch (this to help cross-compiling).
* More minor guidelines changes, including dir entry fixup.
* configure script caches more values.
* Changed maintainer email address to ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 16 Mar 1996 19:18:08 +0000
dpkg (1.1.2); priority=LOW
* Packaging guidelines installed properly (and as guidelines
rather than debian-guidelines).
* ELF version has more checks to stop you wrecking your dpkg installation.
* dselect disk methods now look for a `local' tree as well, for
people who want locally-available software of various kinds.
* dpkg-divert has debugging message removed.
* Minor guidelines changes.
* Various makefile cleanups, mainly to do with ELF vs. a.out support.
* debian.rules cleans out ~ files itself, as well as calling make clean.
* debian.rules names .nondebbin.tar.gz file ELF too, if appropriate.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Thu, 14 Mar 1996 03:38:29 +0000
dpkg (1.1.1elf); priority=LOW
* Added /usr/lib/dpkg/elf-executables-ok and elf-in-kernel.
* Replaces field now allows automatic removal of conflicting packages.
* Replaces field now required to overwrite other packages' files.
* Architecture field, and dpkg --print-architecture, supported.
* build new format archives by default when compiled with ELF compiler.
* symlinks are now installed atomically (good for shared libraries).
* create /var/lib/dpkg/diversions in postinst if necessary (Bug#2465.)
* Pre-Depends now correctly fails if package never configured.
* dselect disk methods mount with -o nosuid,nodev.
* update-rc.d defaults doesn't add both K and S in any one runlevel;
dpkg postinst fixes up this situation if it sees it.
* Assorted fixups to the Guidelines, which are now in one piece.
* dpkg --list prints version string in one piece.
* dpkg-scanpackages doesn't produce notice on output with list of
packages with Section and/or Priority control file fields.
* control file and debian.rules work both for ELF and non-ELF compiles.
* most files compiled with -O2 (-O3 only for some critical files) -
this fixes ELF build.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 11 Mar 1996 04:25:28 +0000
dpkg (1.1.0); priority=LOW
* dpkg supports Pre-Depends.
* postinst script gets most-recently-configured version as $2.
* lib/tarfn.c #includes <errno.h> (portability fix).
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 11 Feb 1996 21:07:03 +0000
dpkg (1.0.17); priority=LOW
* dpkg --recursive follows symlinks (useful for devel tree).
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 10 Feb 1996 15:58:46 +0000
dpkg (1.0.16); priority=LOW
* dpkg-deb much faster reading new format archives. (Bug#2256.)
* Developers' documentation in /usr/doc/dpkg/, /usr/info/.
* Fixed typo in control file Description.
* configure script tries to improve matters wrt sysinfo.
* any debian-tmp.deb is deleted by `./debian.rules clean'.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 4 Feb 1996 15:51:59 +0000
dpkg (1.0.15); priority=LOW
* dselect disk methods should never unmount things they didn't mount.
* debian.README aka /usr/doc/copyright updated.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Tue, 30 Jan 1996 15:05:39 +0000
dpkg (1.0.14); priority=MEDIUM
* fixed file descriptor leak in dpkg introduced in 1.0.11.
* included dpkg-name in this package (conflicts with dpkg-name).
* redraw in dselect main menu changed to use clearok (like in lists).
* sa_restorer in struct sigaction no longer used (portability fix).
* removed Guidelines from source package.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Tue, 30 Jan 1996 02:52:29 +0000
dpkg (1.0.13); priority=MEDIUM
* dselect partition and mounted methods work again.
* dpkg-deb --no-act in usage message.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 26 Jan 1996 18:37:03 +0000
dpkg (1.0.12); priority=MEDIUM (HIGH for users of 1.0.11)
* Fixed frequent dpkg coredump introduced in 1.0.11. (Bug#2219.)
* dpkg-deb ensures version numbers start with alphanumerics.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 24 Jan 1996 00:42:31 +0000
dpkg (1.0.11); priority=MEDIUM
* corrected potentially serious problem with dpkg low-memory in-core
files database.
* dpkg-split --msdos puts output files in right directory. (Bug#2165.)
* diversions implemented - see `dpkg-divert --help'.
* dselect shows and uses (for dependencies) currently installed
version of a package if that is more recent.
* dpkg --force-... options are in separate help screen.
* better error messages for corrupted .deb archives. (Bug#2178.)
* dselect NFS method will unmount correct copy of NFS area if mounted
twice.
* removes some ELF compilation warnings.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 19 Jan 1996 02:41:46 +0000
dpkg (1.0.10); priority=MEDIUM
* dpkg-deb option parsing unmuddled (-I option was removed
in 1.0.9 and broke dpkg-deb). (Bug#2124.)
* dpkg-split will work when ELF `ar' is installed, and is faster.
* nfs dselect method now available.
* disk methods don't prompt spuriously for Packages files.
* cdrom+harddisk methods can find Packages files.
* dpkg-scanpackages (creates Packages files) now in /usr/sbin.
* various changes to help compilation of dpkg-deb, dpkg-split
and md5sum on non-Debian systems.
* <sys/fcntl.h> replaced by <fcntl.h> throughout.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 14 Jan 1996 02:55:19 +0000
dpkg (1.0.9); priority=MEDIUM
* dselect uninitialised variable coredump fixed (thanks Carl).
* version numbers printed by --version fixed. (Bug#2115.)
* disk method problem with missing Packages files fixed. (Bug#2114.)
* dependency version relationships now <= >= << >> =. (Bug#2060.)
* install-info is in /usr/sbin, not /usr/bin. (Bug#1924.)
* dpkg regards Revision field as obsolete.
* <asm/unistd.h> changed to <linux/unistd.h> (for m68k port).
* scripts/Makefile.in `clean' target deletes scripts.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Thu, 11 Jan 1996 20:51:20 +0000
dpkg (1.0.8); priority=LOW
* update-alternatives slightly more helpful message. (Bug#1975.)
* cosmetic improvements to disk installation method. (Bug#1970,1956.)
* mounted filesystem and unmounted partition separate methods. (Bug#1957.)
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Tue, 12 Dec 1995 04:07:47 +0000
dpkg (1.0.7); priority=MEDIUM (HIGH to upgrade syslogd)
* dselect harddisk/CDROM method script handles multiple package
areas.
* Everything has a manpage, though many are very unhelpful indeed.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Thu, 30 Nov 1995 03:59:14 +0000
dpkg (1.0.6); priority=MEDIUM (HIGH to upgrade syslogd)
* conffiles can now be taken over properly from one package by
another which replaces it. (Bug#1482.)
* dpkg will not deconfigure essential packages when --auto-deconfigure
is set (this bug was fairly unlikely ever to be exercised).
* dpkg checks for the presence of certain important programs on the PATH.
* dselect is now more informative when a dependency is missing, saying
"<package> does not appear to be available". (Bug#1642, 1705).
* `make distclean' fixed; config.* &c removed from source archive.
* lib/lock.c now uses fcntl rather than flock, for better portability.
* `Package_Revision: 0' removed from control file.
* Some inaccuracies and bad formatting in various messages corrected.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Tue, 21 Nov 1995 20:15:18 +0000
dpkg (1.0.5); priority=LOW
* dpkg-split allows some space for the header. (Bug#1649.)
* dpkg-split now has --msdos option for 8.3 filenames.
* dpkg-split --join &c will not complain about trailing garbage.
* dselect & dpkg will no longer ignore SIGHUP will running subprocesses.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 13 Oct 1995 13:59:51 +0100
dpkg (1.0.4); priority=MEDIUM (HIGH for dselect users with 1.0.3)
* fixed bug which prevented dselect from displaying the bottom line of
any listing screen. This was introduced in 1.0.3, sorry !
* a conffile will never cause a prompt if the package maintainer
distributes a file identical to the user's, even if the file has
been edited by both the user and the maintainer or is a
newly-registered conffile. (Bug#1639.)
* dselect disk/cdrom method script says where to get Packages file.
* dselect help has better descriptions of the functions of Return and Q.
* postinst now warns about some problems with /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/hd.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Thu, 12 Oct 1995 01:45:38 +0100
dpkg (1.0.3); priority=MEDIUM
* dselect: fixed segfault when doing some multiple (de)selections.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Tue, 10 Oct 1995 03:21:12 +0100
dpkg (1.0.2); priority=MEDIUM
* problem with screen refresh after `o' (change order) corrected.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 9 Oct 1995 13:11:04 +0100
dpkg (1.0.1); priority=LOW
* much better dpkg performance on low-memory systems.
* start-stop-daemon --name should now work. (oops!)
* fixed typo which could turn into memory overwriting bug sometime.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 8 Oct 1995 20:12:29 +0100
dpkg (1.0.0); priority=LOW
* Version 1.0.0: dpkg is no longer beta.
* tar extractor no longer looks up an empty string using getgrnam
(this causes the libc to coredump when using NIS).
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Oct 1995 13:07:36 +0100
dpkg (0.93.80); priority=LOW
* dselect help screen intro changed to remove `much' before `help'.
* update-alternatives.pl contains hardcoded ENOENT value, instead
of requiring POSIX.pm to be present.
* Makefiles changed to strip when installing instead of when building.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 30 Sep 1995 01:44:12 +0100
dpkg (0.93.79) BETA; priority=LOW
* DPKG_NO_TSTP environment variable which stops dpkg sending the
process group a SIGTSTP (Bug#1496).
* End key should work in dselect lists (Bug#1501).
* various message typos (missing \n's) fixed (Bug#1504).
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 29 Sep 1995 03:27:01 +0100
dpkg (0.93.78) BETA; priority=LOW
* dselect keystrokes help file typo fix.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Thu, 28 Sep 1995 20:31:02 +0100
dpkg (0.93.77) BETA; priority=MEDIUM
* dpkg --remove --pending will purge things when appropriate.
* fixed failure to null-terminate dpkg conflict problem messages.
* fixed bug in formatting of dependency version problem messages.
* Conffiles resolution prompt for new conffile: typo fixed.
* Changed dpkg usage error to suggest `-Dhelp' instead of `--Dhelp'.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 20 Sep 1995 23:44:35 +0100
dpkg (0.93.76) BETA; priority=MEDIUM
* dpkg --auto-deconfigure option (used automatically by dselect) allows
`important' packages which many others depend on to be split.
* dpkg should no longer fail an assertion during complicated
multiple configurations involving packages which are on hold.
* update-alternatives supports negative priorities.
* /etc/alternatives is included in the .deb archive.
* Package priorities changed: Required (Req), Important (Imp), Standard (Std),
Optional (Opt) and Extra (Xtr). For backward compatibility Base is an
alias for Required, and Recommended is kept as a level just below Standard.
* dselect shows introductory help screen when entering package lists (both
main and recursive).
* dselect help messages made more friendly.
* dselect package list `quit, confirm, and check dependencies' key is
now Return rather than lowercase `q'; likewise method list `select this
one and configure it' key.
* dselect selects packages with priority `standard' or better by default.
* dselect `v=verbose' becomes `v=terse' when in verbose mode.
* hard disk method unmounts /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt on failure.
* disk methods' install message uses `stty' to find out what the
interrupt character is, and uses that in the prompt (rather than ^C).
* dpkg now tolerates ^Z characters in Packages files.
* harddisk method doesn't display extra slash when updating packages file.
* harddisk method burbles less if it doesn't have a good default.
* dpkg-deb now supports new flexible format, but old format still default.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 20 Sep 1995 02:49:41 +0100
dpkg (0.93.75) BETA; priority=MEDIUM
* dselect no longer segfaults when you try to modify the last item.
* dselect Makefile compiles with -g, and links without -s, but installs
with -s, so that built source directory has debugabble binary.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Tue, 12 Sep 1995 02:59:29 +0100
dpkg (0.93.74) BETA; priority=LOW
* dpkg-split implemented and installed in /usr/bin/dpkg-split.
(NB this is not compatible with Carl Streeter's old dpkg-split script.)
* dpkg uses dpkg-split.
* floppy disk method available - NB this is a first attempt only.
* hard disk method uses --merge-avail rather than --update-avail.
* installation by default of `standard' packages removed again.
(I don't think this is the right place to do this.)
* update-alternatives --remove correctly deletes all slave links;
minor cosmetic improvements.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 11 Sep 1995 02:06:05 +0100
dpkg (0.93.73) BETA; priority=LOW
* dselect multi-package selection now done by `divider' lines
actually in the package list, rather than horizontal highlight
movement.
* dselect help available, and keybindings rationalised.
* postinst removes /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/hd if upgrading from
0.93.42.3 or earlier.
* `hold' flag changed to be settable by the user only, and
made orthogonal to the `reinstallation required' flag.
* dpkg will install by default any packages with priority of
`standard' or better unless they're explictly deselected.
* dselect dependency/conflict resolution will suggest marking absent
packages for `purge' rather than `deinstall'.
* disk method script produces message about invoking dpkg.
* dpkg produces warning, not error, when it gets EPERM trying to
remove a directory belonging to a package being removed.
* dpkg, dpkg-deb usage error reporting improved.
* dselect detects too-dumb terminals and stops.
* dpkg-deb(8) updated a little (thanks to Bill Mitchell).
* dselect debugmake script uses -O0.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 10 Sep 1995 12:23:05 +0100
dpkg (0.93.72) BETA; priority=MEDIUM
* /usr/sbin/update-alternatives added.
* New names for certain control file fields (old names work
as aliases): Optional -> Suggests, Recommended -> Recommends,
Class -> Priority.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 3 Sep 1995 16:37:41 +0100
dpkg (0.93.71) BETA; priority=LOW
* dpkg doesn't silently overwrite `new' conffiles (Bug#1283).
* case now not significant in Essential, Status and Class (Bug#1280).
* dselect checks method scripts for execute, not for write.
* spelling fixes in lib/dbmodify.c and dselect/helpmsgs.src.
* dselect `clean' target deletes helpmsgs.cc and helpmsgs.cc.new.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Thu, 31 Aug 1995 13:56:08 +0100
dpkg (0.93.70) BETA; priority=MEDIUM
* dselect unmounted harddisk method has many silly bugs fixed.
* dpkg --root option restored (was removed by mistake in 0.93.68).
* minor cosmetic change to dselect subprocess failure message.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 9 Aug 1995 22:18:55 +0100
dpkg (0.93.69) BETA; priority=MEDIUM
* dpkg --configure and --remove should work properly when
they have to defer processing (this tends to happen when many
packages are processed at once). (Bug#1209.)
* dpkg --configure and --remove work better when `processing'
several related packages with --no-act.
* dpkg --auto is now two options, --pending or -a (for configure,
remove, &c) and --recursive or -R (for install, unpack, &c).
* dpkg debug options in usage message, and values available (-Dh).
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 9 Aug 1995 22:18:55 +0100
dpkg (0.93.68) BETA; priority=MEDIUM
* dpkg won't get an internal error if you try to use the default
conffiles response (ie, if you just hit return). (Bug#1208.)
* dselect hard disk and CD-ROM methods - the real thing, but ALPHA.
* dselect allows you to go straight to `update' or `install' if
you have already set up an access method.
* new dpkg options --yet-to-unpack, --merge-avail and --update-avail.
* dpkg -G is an abbreviation for dpkg --refuse-downgrade.
* dpkg -R alias for --root withdrawn, pending reuse with different meaning.
* dpkg --help message rationalised somewhat.
* Obsolete `examples' and `dpkg-split' directories removed from
source tree. The `hello' package is a better example.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 7 Aug 1995 02:16:25 +0100
dpkg (0.93.67) BETA; priority=LOW for C dpkg alpha testers, HIGH for others
* dpkg no longer statically linked and -g.
* calls to abort() changed to print string, file and line number first.
* removed unused variable from dpkg source.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 4 Aug 1995 01:39:52 +0100
dpkg (0.93.66) ALPHA; priority=MEDIUM
* dpkg will correctly remove overwritten files from the lists of
the package(s) that used to contain them.
* dpkg --purge is now an action, rather than a modifier for --remove,
and the -P alias for it is withdrawn.
* dpkg --unpack/--install filenames in messages are now more sensible
about when to use .../ (show as many trailing components as possible
in 40 characters, or the whole path if that the last component is
longer than that).
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Thu, 3 Aug 1995 02:11:03 +0100
dpkg (0.93.65) ALPHA; priority=MEDIUM
* dpkg --remove should, when a package being removed is depended-on
by another that is also queued for removal, defer the depended-on
package rather than aborting it. (Bug#1188.)
* dpkg will not attempt to configure or remove a package more than
once in the same run. (Bug#1169.)
* dpkg cosmetic fix to dependency problems message (this bug
hasn't been triggered to my knowledge).
* perl-dpkg no longer installed in /usr/bin.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 2 Aug 1995 13:02:58 +0100
dpkg (0.93.64) ALPHA; priority=MEDIUM
* dpkg marks a package as no longer `to be configured in this run'
when an error occurs, so that other packages which depend on it
will fail (rather than causing a loop and an assertion failure,
packages.c:166: failed assertion `dependtry <= 4').
* dselect initial selection granularity is single-package.
* dpkg --no-also-select option renamed to --selected-only (old option
still accepted, but no longer in --help). Changed -N to -O.
* dselect `update' option changed to `install' (and other options
renamed too). NB: old access methods will not work, because
the `update' script should now be an `install' script.
* dselect `installation methods' renamed to `access methods'.
* dpkg --skip-same-version and --refuse-downgrade produce friendlier
messages when they skip packages.
* --licence option now properly mentioned in all programs' --version
messages.
* bad fix for ELF compile problem involving myopt.h removed (compile
problem turned out to be a GCC bug.)
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Tue, 1 Aug 1995 03:03:58 +0100
dpkg (0.93.63) ALPHA; priority=LOW
* preinst works around shell bug/misfeature involving `trap'.
* dpkg --skip-same-version doesn't skip packages which have
an error flag set or which aren't in a standard `installed' state.
* dpkg --search now does a substring search if the string doesn't
start with a wildcard character (*, [ or ?) or slash.
* problem with C/C++ linkage of stuff in "myopt.h" fixed, to help
with compiling with GCC 2.7.0.
* dselect Makefile.in `clean' deletes curkeys.inc &c, so that they are
not shipped in the distribution source and will be rebuilt on the
target system.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Thu, 27 Jul 1995 13:38:47 +0100
dpkg (0.93.62) ALPHA; priority=HIGH
* dpkg purges leftover control scripts from /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci,
rather than associating them with the wrong package. (Bug#1101.)
* dpkg won't `disappear' packages containing no files or directories,
nor a package required for depends/recommended. (Bug#1128.)
* dpkg follows directory symlinks. (Bug#1125.)
* dselect fixups for ELF/GCC2.7.0 compilation.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 21 Jul 1995 21:43:41 +0100
dpkg (0.93.61) ALPHA; priority=LOW
* dselect keybindings and status characters and descriptions changed
(in pursuance of Bug#1037, user interface problems, still open.)
* Some cleanups to fix mistakes discovered by ELF-GCC 2.7.0, and fixup
for newer C++ draft standard (`for' variable declaration scope change).
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Tue, 18 Jul 1995 01:42:51 +0100
dpkg (0.93.60) ALPHA; priority=HIGH
* dpkg doesn't think packages have `disappeared' if you install
several packages at once. (later reported as Bug#1132.)
* usage error messages tidied up.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 16 Jul 1995 17:56:56 +0100
dpkg (0.93.59) ALPHA; priority=HIGH
* dpkg doesn't break maintainer scripts &c if package `foo' exists
when processing package `foobar'. (Related to Bug#1101.)
* dpkg implements `disappear' functionality.
* dpkg/dselect remove dead entries from /var/lib/dpkg/status.
* dpkg --list now sorted correctly and output somewhat improved.
* some debugging messages moved from dbg_stupidlyverbose to dbg_scripts.
* dpkg prints `Removing foo' message even if foo is not configured.
* dpkg only prints `serious warning: files list file ... missing'
once for each package.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 16 Jul 1995 02:32:11 +0100
dpkg (0.93.58) ALPHA; priority=HIGH
* dpkg should write out status even for packages which it has only
encountered in the `available' file so far.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 14 Jul 1995 20:19:21 +0100
dpkg (0.93.57) ALPHA; priority=LOW
* dpkg does chroot when running maintainer scripts (--instdir
should work right now, though I haven't been able to test it).
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 14 Jul 1995 01:32:30 +0100
dpkg (0.93.56) ALPHA; priority=HIGH
* dpkg can now overwrite symlinks to directories, and will
do correct handling of symlinks to plain files.
* dpkg should not replace any directory with a symlink.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Thu, 13 Jul 1995 02:43:36 +0100
dpkg (0.93.55) ALPHA; priority=MEDIUM
* dpkg can now extract hardlinks.
* dpkg configuration/removal works in the presence of dependency cycles.
* dpkg should no longer fail an assertion at processarc.c:193.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 12 Jul 1995 01:34:44 +0100
dpkg (0.93.54) ALPHA; priority=MEDIUM
* dpkg and dselect no longer throw away all Class and Section
information in /var/lib/dpkg/available. (Oops.)
* dpkg --refuse-<something> now works (this broke some dselect
method scripts' attempts to use --refuse-downgrade).
* dpkg --audit and --list implemented.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 10 Jul 1995 00:35:13 +0100
dpkg (0.93.53) ALPHA; priority=LOW
* dpkg --install/--unpack only skips on-hold packages with --auto.
* dpkg doesn't fclose() the --fsys-tarfile pipe twice.
* dpkg error handling and reporting cleaned up.
* dpkg now lists any failed packages/files just before exiting.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 9 Jul 1995 16:31:36 +0100
dpkg (0.93.52) ALPHA; priority=MEDIUM
* dpkg won't segfault due to missing (Package_)Revision fields.
* dpkg --search works.
* dpkg will set execute permissions on scripts if necessary.
* dpkg prints filenames in --unpack and --install.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 8 Jul 1995 12:41:39 +0100
dpkg (0.93.51) ALPHA; priority=HIGH
* dpkg --status and --listfiles now work.
* dpkg --remove --auto won't try to remove everything (!)
* dpkg --unpack doesn't coredump after unpacking the first package.
* dpkg won't fail an assertion if it bombs out of --configure
or --remove because of too many errors.
* Support for `Essential' in dpkg (not yet in dselect).
* `available' (Packages) file class and section override those
from package control files.
* `Essential: yes' added to control file.
* Locking strategy changed, now uses flock (no more stale locks).
* preinst now more helpful about conffiles upgrade problem.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 8 Jul 1995 01:15:26 +0100
dpkg (0.93.50) ALPHA
* C dpkg now in service.
* dselect now installs in /usr/bin instead of /usr/sbin.
* Improved `explanation of display' help and changed HSOC to EIOW.
* dselect goes back to top of info display when you move the
highlight.
* Added <sys/types.h> to md5sum/md5.c, for the benefit of FreeBSD.
* --admindir doesn't append `var/lib/dpkg' to its argument.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 19 May 1995 21:03:08 +0100
dpkg (0.93.42.3) BETA; priority=LOW
* Rebuilt using ncurses 1.9.2c-0.
* Silenced `subcritical error' message if errno == ENOENT.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 12 Jun 1995 13:09:24 +0100
dpkg (0.93.42.2) BETA; priority=HIGH
* install-info --remove properly removes multi-line entries.
* Slightly changed ^L redraw code in dselect package list.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 10 Jun 1995 14:06:01 +0100
dpkg (0.93.42.1) BETA; priority=HIGH esp. for new installations
* update-rc.d default no longer adds K entries in runlevels 2345.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Tue, 6 Jun 1995 18:56:23 +0100
dpkg (0.93.42) BETA; priority=LOW; HIGH for dselect users
* Fix unitialised variable reference bug in dselect (#890).
* Fix problem with wordwrapping package and method descriptions.
* Create /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 19 May 1995 21:03:08 +0100
dpkg (0.93.41) BETA; priority=LOW
* Create /var/lib/dpkg/methods.
* dpkg.pl noisily ignores --skip-same-version rather than barfing.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Tue, 16 May 1995 13:28:27 +0100
dpkg (0.93.40) BETA; priority=LOW
* dselect's subprogram failure message made to stand out more.
* When switching out of curses, always move the cursor to the
bottom right corner of the screen.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Tue, 16 May 1995 01:03:38 +0100
dpkg (0.93.39) BETA; priority=LOW
* dselect can now:
- allow you to select and configure an installation method;
- invoke installation method scripts to update the available file
and unpack packages;
- invoke dpkg to configure and remove packages.
There are no installation methods available yet.
* Search feature in dselect works (it was purely an ncurses bug).
* dpkg-*.nondebbin.tar.gz now available (built by debian.rules).
* The target directory for dpkg-deb --extract (also available as
dpkg --extract) is no longer optional. dpkg-deb suggests the use
of dpkg --install if you omit it.
* Added <errno.h> to lib/lock.c and fixed ref. to `byte' in
md5sum/md5.c, for portability to Solaris 2.
* Rebuilt `configure' and `config.h.in' using autoconf 2.3.
* Revised function attribute support checking in configure script.
* Removed obsolete `dselect.pl' from scripts directory.
* New option --licence on all the C programs.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 14 May 1995 18:05:38 +0100
dpkg (0.93.38) BETA; priority=MEDIUM
* Version number comparisons (in dpkg and dselect) now >= <=
as documented (Bug#831; thanks to Christian Linhart).
* dselect now has a non-superuser readonly mode.
* dselect doesn't pop up unsatisfied `Optional's when quitting.
* `unable to delete saved old file' message fixed dpkg_tmp to dpkg-tmp.
* Made dpkg convert `revision' to `package_revision' when reading
(eg) the `status' file. libdpkg.a has `revision' as a synonym
for `package_revision' and writes the former.
* Major improvements and many changes to C option parsing, database
management, error handling, Makefiles &c to support dpkg.
* dpkg-deb should now work if sizeof(void*) < sizeof(void(*)()).
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 24 Apr 1995 12:34:39 +0100
dpkg (0.93.37) BETA; priority=LOW (MEDIUM for dselect users)
* Fixed segfault if no description available (Bug#735);
thanks to Peter Tobias for the bug report.
* Fixed other assorted minor bugs in description displays.
* Changed dpkg-deb --info short option from -i to -I, to make
it unique across dpkg and dpkg-deb (-i still works with
dpkg-deb for backwards compatibility).
* Produce more sensible error when main package list is empty.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 7 Apr 1995 02:24:55 +0100
dpkg (0.93.36) BETA; priority=LOW (MEDIUM for dselect users)
* All the C code (including dselect) updated to support `provides'
(virtual packages).
* Revamped dselect's related package selection/deselection
algorithms.
* Everything can now handle arbitrary `class' values (as well
as the predefined ones which we understand and can interpret).
* Fixed bug that prevented display update when moving down a small
recursive package list in dselect.
* Column heading characters corrected from `SHOC' to `HSOC'.
-- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Thu, 6 Apr 1995 12:48:13 +0100
dpkg (0.93.35) BETA; priority=MEDIUM
* Preserve ownerships and permissions on configuration files.
* Fix bug in conffile updating that could leave a hardlink
<foo>.dpkg-new to the conffile <foo>.
* Improved dselect's package list help messages.
* Highlight now moves on after (de)selecting just one package.
* Better algorithm for scrolling up/down when moving highlight.
* Fixed bug in display of `preformatted' extended Description lines.
(dselect is still ALPHA, but is fairly stable.)
* Improved dpkg's message when configuring a package that doesn't
exist, and when selecting or skipping a package that isn't
currently selected (during unpack processing).
* Description in control file expanded.
* Scroll back to top when changing what is in the `info' area.
dpkg (0.93.34) BETA; priority=LOW (HIGH for dselect users)
* dselect: Fixed bug which caused a coredump if you exited the
package list if you'd made any changes. Ouch !
* dselect: Improved selection algorithm to show fewer extraneous
packages; improved display for unavailable packages.
* dpkg: Improved progress messages during unpacking somewhat.
dpkg (0.93.33) BETA; priority=LOW (HIGH for dselect users)
* dselect now has a main menu.
* Fixed nasty uninitialised data bug in dselect.
* dselect now locks and unlocks the packages database.
Mon, 27 Mar 1995 03:30:51 BST Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
* dpkg (0.93.32): Alpha dselect released and installed in
/usr/sbin/dselect.
* dpkg (0.93.32): Many portability enhancements: should now
compile using GCC 2.6.3, and dpkg-deb should
compile better on non-Linux systems.
* dpkg (0.93.32): dpkg will not loop if its stdin disappears
and it needs to prompt.
* dpkg (0.93.32): Fixed removal dependency error to show
correct package (Bug #648).
* dpkg (0.93.32): Tidied up copyright notices.
* dpkg (0.93.32): First draft of update-rc.d manpage, not yet
installed in /usr/man.
* dpkg (0.93.32): Changes to top-level Makefile.in to improve
error trapping.
* dpkg (0.93.32): Improved Makefile `clean' and `distclean'
targets.
* dpkg (0.93.32): Deleted irrelevant `t.c' from lib and
dselect directories.
* dpkg (0.93.32): Added vercmp.c with version comparison code.
* dpkg (0.93.32): varbufextend message changed - varbufs not
just for input buffers.
* dpkg (0.93.32): varbuf has C++ member functions in header
#ifdef __cplusplus.
Changes in dpkg 0.93.31:
* start-stop-daemon --pidfile now works (Bug#571).
* Fixed dependency processing bugs which could require a rerun of
dpkg --configure (Bug#566).
* Fixed garbage output for `language' of control file in dpkg-deb --info.
Changes in dpkg 0.93.30:
* Added /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon.
Changes in dpkg 0.93.09:
* Made postinst scripts really be run when dpkg --purge used.
* Added new --force-extractfail option - VERY DANGEROUS.
Changes in dpkg 0.93.28:
* Removed undef of 0x_p21 in read_database_file, which caused the
the whole status database to become trashed when any update files
were read.
* Make infinite-loop prevention and cycle detection work.
* Made findbreakcycle work (ie, break properly when cycle detected).
* New script, update-rc.d, to update links /etc/rc?.d/[KS]??*.
* dpkg.pl now sets the umask to 022.
* Cosmetic error message fix to dpkg-deb.
* Deleted OLD directory altogether.
* Improved error-trapping in top-level Makefile loops.
Changes in dpkg 0.93.27:
* Make version number specifications in Depends &c work.
* Added AC_PROG_CXX to autoconf.in for dselect.
* Changed myopt.h not to have cipaction field in cmdinfo (this was
specially for dpkg-deb) - now we have a generic void*.
* Renamed `class' member of `pkginfoperfile' to `clas' [sic].
* Much work in `dselect' subdirectory.
* Deleted executables, objects and libraries from OLD tree !
* Minor changes to various copyright notices and top-of-file comments.
* Don't install nasty Perl dselectish thing as /usr/bin/dselect.
Changes in dpkg 0.93.26:
* Added --no-also-select instead of not auto-selecting on --unpack
but doing so on --install; removed --force-unpack-any.
Changes in dpkg 0.93.25:
* Fixed duplicate output (failure to flush before fork) bug.
* More clarification of md5sum.c copyright.
* Corrected typo in ChangeLog in 0.93.24 source package.
Changes in dpkg 0.93.24:
* dpkg could copy conffiles info from one package to another. Aargh.
Bug #426.
* dpkg failed to initialise status if you tried to remove or
configure a nonexistent package. Bug #419.
* install-info now handles START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY entries like:
* Gdb:: The GNU debugger.
Previously it would only accept (Bug #407):
* Gdb: (gdb). The GNU debugger.
* When installing a new foo.info[.gz], install-info now replaces
* Foo: (foo.info). The Gnoo Foo.
as well as just * Foo: (foo). ...
* Moved option parsing out of dpkg-deb into libdpkg.
* Assorted minor source code rearrangements.
* Fixed assorted copyright notices, clarified md5sum copyright.
* Corrected typo in 0.93.23 source package's ChangeLog.
Changes in dpkg 0.93.23:
* `dpkg-deb' --build now does a syntax check on the control file.
* `dselect' is now no longer called `debian', spurious copy removed
from package top-level source directory.
* C control information parsing complete and somewhat tested.
* Moved `global' include files into $(srcdir)/include from ../lib,
added some files to the lib Makefile, and arranged for pop_cleanup().
Changes in dpkg 0.93.22:
* Fixed bug which caused dpkg to see failures of md5sum where there
were none (would also have caused dpkg to miss a real failure).
* Fixed failure to update some `status' database fields.
Changes in dpkg 0.93.21:
* Fixed error-handling bug which could corrupt database.
Changes in dpkg 0.93.20:
* Fixed bug which ran old (/var/adm/dpkg) postinst scripts.
* Fixed dpkg usage message which claimed -i => both --install & --info.
* Use Colin Plumb's MD5 code - faster, and better copyright.
* Manpages: dpkg-deb(8), deb-control(5), deb(5) - thanks to Raul
Deluth Miller. Also, an xfig picture of some C program innards.
Changes in dpkg 0.93.19:
* Don't delete the `list' file from the dpkg database.
* Fixed various bugs in the conffile handling.
* Conffiles that are symlinks will now be treated as if the
`dereferenced' name of the file was listed in conffiles. This means
that /etc/foo -> /usr/etc/foo will cause all conffile updates of
/etc/foo to create /usr/etc/foo.dpkg-tmp &c instead. However, the
link will be removed if --purge is used to delete all the conffiles.
* When doing a new installation, or when updating a conffile that
wasn't listed as a conffile in the old version of the package, don't
do any prompting but just install the version from the archive.
* Corrected error message if exec of dpkg --vextract failed
and --instroot or --root specified.
* Added new --force-unpack-any option.
* Extra newline after --status output.
* Added -W options to CFLAGS.
* Fixed mistake in previous ChangeLog entry.
Changes in dpkg 0.93.18:
* Fixed invocation of dpkg-deb --vextract if --root or --instdir
not specified.
* Create /var/lib/dpkg/updates.
Changes in dpkg 0.93.17:
* install-info --remove exits with status 0 if it doesn't find the
thing to remove, instead of status 1.
* Error handling functions have __attribute__((format...)) if GCC.
* push_cleanup its arg takes void **argv instead of char **argv.
* Top-level Makefile.in has set -e before `for' loops.
* dpkg-deb --info not-an-existing-file produces fewer error messages.
Changes in dpkg 0.93.16:
* Made --root= option really extract to $instroot instead of `/'.
* install-info clears the 0444 bits in its umask.
* Fixed a few database handling bugs which cause dpkg always to fail,
and usually to corrupt the status database in various ways.
* dpkg-deb completely rewritten, now doesn't tinker with
/var/{adm,lib}/dpkg. Should be faster.
* Directory structure and Makefiles in source package reorganised.
Changes in dpkg 0.93.15:
* Added `debian' (dselect), still very primitive.
* Database format changed, and moved from /var/adm to /var/lib.
* Added dpkg --avail mode, --list, --status and --search.
* Set of dpkg => dpkg-deb pass-through operations changed (but
dpkg-deb not yet updated).
* Added --root, --admindir and --instdir, as well as --isok &c.
* Moved much stuff into /usr/lib/dpkg-lib.pl, rewritten status
database handling.
* Put packages in `purge' state even if `deinstall' requested if
they have no postrm and no conffiles.
* Version number comparisons fixed.
* insert-version.pl now installes lib.pl filename too.
* Strip trailing slashes when reading files from file lists.
Changes in dpkg 0.93.14:
* Fixed parsing of DEPENDS &c fields with trailing whitespace.
* postinst now fixes up broken ispell.control file.
* Cyclic dependency/multiple package removal processing: don't consider
packages we've just removed when looking for a reason not to go ahead.
* Added call to postinst with `purge' argument for expunging old
configuration etc. that aren't listed in conffiles.
Changes in dpkg 0.93.13:
* sub S_ISREG defined in dpkg.pl.
* Checking of DEPENDS &c fields was too lax, causing an internal error
if you fed it certain kinds of broken control file.
* Fixed misleading message from bogus installationstatus call.
* New -u and -U options to dpkg-deb which don't unpack the /DEBIAN
directory, and use these in dpkg.pl; clean up /DEBIAN in postinst.
Changes in dpkg 0.93.12:
* No longer needs *.ph files, since these appear to be broken.
* Postinst fixes up *.control files with curly brackets.
* embryo of dselect.
Changes in dpkg 0.93.11:
* New --ignore-depends option.
* This ChangeLog changed format here.
Wed Nov 30 15:38:21 GMT 1994 Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
* dpkg 0.93.11 released.
* conffile updating fixed.
* Message `updgrade' in dpkg changed to `replace'.
* install-info now copes with multi-line entries.
* version numbers now done automatically in dpkg and install-info.
* more debugging around conffiles updates.
* *.hash files not deleted so soon.
* adds brand new packages to status array so we can install them.
* postinst does h2ph for {sys,linux}/{stat,types}.ph if required.
Mon Nov 28 02:00:13 GMT 1994 Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
* dpkg 0.93.10 released.
* dpkg.pl completely rewritten.
* dpkg-deb: removed dabase-processing and --install option.
* Makefiles reworked, debian.rules added.
* Don't install anything in /usr/doc/examples.
* dpkg-*.deb contains /usr/bin/dpkg-deb.dist, fixed up by postinst.
Thu Oct 20 13:22:20 1994 Ian Murdock (imurdock@debra.debian.org)
* dpkg 0.93.9 released.
* dpkg.pl: Use $argument, not $package, with `--build'.
Make sure that saved postinst scripts are executable.
Tue Oct 18 09:40:57 1994 Ian Murdock (imurdock@debra.debian.org)
* dpkg 0.93.8 released.
* deb/remove.c (pkg_remove): Do not report an error from rmdir ()
when `errno' is ENOTEMPTY (Directory not empty), because in this
case we have found the highest-level directory in the package and
are ready to exit the loop (i.e., it is a normal occurrence).
Mon Oct 17 10:44:32 1994 Ian Murdock (imurdock@debra.debian.org)
* Makefile.in: Adapted all Makefiles to the GNU Coding Standards.
* deb/remove.c (pkg_remove): Make sure that parent directories are
removed LAST! This will result in complete removal of packages
when --remove is called. dpkg 0.93.7 (and earlier) had problems
with this because it tried to remove directories in order, which
will work most of the time, but not necessarily all of the time.
* deb/list.c (pkg_list): Output is sorted by package name.
Tue Oct 4 12:27:10 1994 Ian Murdock (imurdock@debra.debian.org)
* deb/contents.c (pkg_contents): When a list file cannot be
opened, silently fail and let the front-end explain the problem.
* deb/util.c (return_info): When a control file cannot be opened,
silently fail and let the front-end explain the problem.
* deb/search.c (pkg_search): Exit 0 if the regular expression is
matched and 1 if it is not.
Mon Oct 3 18:38:53 1994 Ian Murdock (imurdock@debra.debian.org)
* dpkg.pl: New file. Replaces dpkg.sh.
* deb/Makefile.in: Renamed `dpkg-util.deb' to `dpkg-deb'.
* deb/build.c (pkg_build): `--build' is less verbose, instead
letting the front-end add verbosity where appropriate.
* deb/install.c (pkg_install): Ditto.
* deb/remove.c (pkg_remove): Ditto.
* deb/search.c (pkg_search): Ditto.
* deb/describe.c (pkg_describe): `--describe' is less verbose,
instead letting the front-end add verbosity where appropriate.
The ``Description:'' label has been removed.
* deb/version.c (pkg_version): `--version' is less verbose,
instead letting the front-end add verbosity where appropriate.
The ``Version:'' label has been removed, as has the maintainer
information.
Mon Sep 12 14:22:04 1994 Ian Murdock (imurdock@debra.debian.org)
* deb/version.c (pkg_version): `--version' now reports the
version number of dpkg if no argument is specified.
Thu Sep 1 13:31:37 1994 Ian Murdock (imurdock@debra.debian.org)
* dpkg 0.93.7 released.
* deb/build.c (pkg_build): check status and exit if non-zero.
* deb/contents.c (pkg_contents): ditto.
* deb/install.c (archive_extract): ditto.
Thu Sep 1 13:20:08 1994 Ian Murdock (imurdock@debra.debian.org)
* deb/version.c (pkg_version): indent to the same point as
pkg_describe.
Thu Sep 1 12:21:11 1994 Ian Murdock (imurdock@debra.debian.org)
* Makefile.in (dist): added debian.rules binary, source and
dist targets to make final distribution easier to make.
(install): install programs to /usr/bin.
* deb/Makefile.in (install): install programs to /usr/bin.
* deb/list.c (pkg_list): enforce a maximum limit of ten characters
for the package name in the output.
(pkg_list): left-justify the version number to make it easier for
the front-end to parse the output.
(pkg_list): replace first '\n' character in packages[n].description
with '\0'.
* deb/install.c (archive_extract): use the `p' option to `tar' to
ensure that permissions are preserved.
Sat Aug 27 09:53:37 1994 Ian Murdock (imurdock@debra.debian.org)
* dpkg 0.93.6 released.
* deb/util.c (return_info): only unlink CONTROL if ARCHIVE_FLAG is
true!
Fri Aug 26 15:38:22 1994 Ian Murdock (imurdock@debra.debian.org)
* dpkg 0.93.5 released.
* deb/contents.c (pkg_contents): merged function archive_contents
into function pkg_contents.
* deb/contents.c (pkg_contents): use lstat (rather than stat) so
that symbolic links are recognized.
(pkg_contents): print the usual `<path> -> <link_to>' now that we
recognize symbolic links.
* deb/util.c (return_info): create a FIFO to pipe the needed
information to the ``formatter'' rather than creating a directory
in /tmp for the package information, which is what we used to do.
Thu Aug 25 11:46:27 1994 Ian Murdock (imurdock@debra.debian.org)
* lib/fake-ls.c (mk_date_string): return a pointer to malloc'ed
area.
(mk_mode_string): ditto.
* dpkg.sh: make sure the control information is extracted to a
uniquely-named temporary directory during package installation.
* dpkg.sh: execute the pre- and post-removal scripts during
package removal.
* dpkg.sh: exit immediately if dpkg-util.deb reports failure.
* deb/install.c (pkg_control): make sure that `package' exists and
is a Debian archive before doing anything.
* deb/install.c (pkg_extract): make sure that `package' exists and
is a Debian archive before doing anything.
* deb/install.c (pkg_install): unlink `extract_output' when done.
* deb/remove.c (pkg_remove): use lstat (rather than stat) so that
--remove does not get confused and think that a symbolic link to a
directory is actually a directory, which results in the symbolic
link never being removed at all.
ChangeLog begins Thu Aug 25 11:46:27 1994 for dpkg 0.93.5.