Changelog
dpkg (1.17.2) unstable; urgency=low
[ Guillem Jover ]
* Make Dpkg::Arch debwildcard_to_debtriplet() more robust by matching
on exact 'any' strings, instead of substrings.
* Add manpages-it Replaces to dselect and dpkg-dev. Closes: #717983
Reported by Andreas Beckmann <email address hidden>.
* Document default dpkg-deb compressor change to xz in man page.
Thanks to Salvatore Bonaccorso <email address hidden>. Closes: #718437
* Version manpages-it in Replaces with (<< 2.80-4), now that the package
does not ship the overlapping paths any more.
* Automatically prepend needed spaces for continuation --force-help lines.
* Be more precise on deb format errors with data member in dpkg-deb.
* Do not allow deb packages with control and data members swapped.
* Clarify «dpkg-deb --extract» bad usage error message on missing arguments
by printing all required arguments at once. Closes: #718899
* Clarify the insertion order of _ members in deb(5) man page.
* Fix use after free in alternative_parse_fileset() on update-alternatives.
Reported by Pedro Ribeiro <email address hidden>.
* Fix use after free in dpkg_arch_load_list() on libdpkg.
Reported by Pedro Ribeiro <email address hidden>.
* Fix theoretical stack buffer overflow in w_dependency() on libdpkg, not
currently applicable. Reported by Pedro Ribeiro <email address hidden>.
* Add ppc64el support to cputable. Closes: #718945
Thanks to Jeff Bailey <email address hidden>.
* Use dpkg-gencontrol -c argument as a fallback lock file in case
debian/control does not exist. Closes: #667008
* Pass the package reference count (i.e. number of present instances) to
maintainer scripts via the new variable DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE_REFCOUNT.
Closes: #681370
* Fix field names on error messages in libdpkg, by either capitalizing them
or by renaming them to match reality.
* Do not capitalize error and warning messages.
* When ignoring invalid remove requests in dpkg consider that progress,
reset the loop detector and avoid the assert. Closes: #143307
* Activate all path components for file triggers on removal.
Regression introduced in 1.17.0. Closes: #725437
* Activate file triggers on disappearance more accurately, only when we know
we are inevitably removing things.
* Fix «dpkg-query --list» output when using multibyte character strings,
to avoid unaligned columns and mojibake. Closes: #257505, #718541
Based on a patch by Changwoo Ryu <email address hidden>.
* Use fully buffered output on non-tty stdout.
Reported by Shawn Landden <email address hidden>.
* Recognize «start-stop-daemon -C» as documented. Closes: #719746
Reported by Brian S. Julin <email address hidden>.
* When update-alternatives is told to change slave links, do not warn that
the link group is broken, just print a notice that the alternative is
being updated due to the changes.
* Add a new «dpkg --verify» command to check the integrity of packages
installed files. Add a --verify-format option to excplicitly select the
output format, currently only rpm compatible output is supported, but
the default might change in the future. Closes: #187019
* Improve dpkg “Preparing to replace” and “Unpacking” progress messages.
Closes: #32427, #71106
* Print the package version on main dpkg progress messages.
* Do not store timestamps in gzip headers when using the command, to try to
mimic the zlib behavior. This does not affect Debian as it's been using
zlib for a very long time. Closes: #719844
* Reset environment variables affecting compressor commands when not using
the shared library implementations. Namely XZ_DEFAULTS, XZ_OPT, BZIP and
BZIP2.
* Use a simple list to track packages owning a file, instead of using a
list of arrays of pointers which waste 10 pointers per non-shared file,
instead of 1. This significantly reduces dpkg memory usage.
* Honor new DEB_SIGN_KEYID environment variable in dpkg-buildpackage.
Suggested by Harald Dunkel <email address hidden>. Closes: #615813, #719418
* Always check subprocess exit codes in Dpkg::Source::Package modules.
Reported by Ian Jackson <email address hidden>.
* Add support for pie and stack-protector options to dpkg-buildflags FFLAGS,
and update the man page to mention FFLAGS are a subset of CFLAGS.
Closes: #726932
* Improve and unify -O option handling in dpkg-genchanges, dpkg-gensymbols
and dpkg-shlibdeps, by always taking an optional filename argument and
describing in the man page the default output files.
* Use “hyphen” instead of “dash” when we mean the ‘-’ character in the
documentation and code comments.
* Do not NULL-terminate the list in the compat scandir(), as this might
cause a segfault in case the function returns 0 entries.
* Always return from ensure_statoverrides() if file is NULL, otherwise
we might get us to read garbage from memory or segfault.
* Add new symlink_to_dir command to dpkg-maintscript-helper. Closes: #720712
Based on a patch by Bastien ROUCARIÈS <email address hidden>.
* Add new dir_to_symlink command to dpkg-maintscript-helper. Closes: #583585
* Distinguish dpkg error reports between errors while processing packages
and archives.
* Fix crashes in the first call to gettext() after fork() on Mac OS X, by
forcing the initialization at program start of the CoreFoundation cached
values in libintl.
* Set a default gettext domain for libdpkg code, so that other programs
using a different domain can still get correct translations, like dselect.
* Cleanup libdpkg-perl API:
- Dpkg::Compression: Deprecate $default_compression_level,
$default_compression and $compression_re_file_ext package variables.
- Dpkg::Exit: Deprecate @handlers package variable.
- Dpkg::Source::Package: Deprecate $diff_ignore_default_regexp and
@tar_ignore_default_pattern package variables.
- Dpkg::Changelog::Entry::Debian: Deprecate $regex_header and
$regex_trailer package variables.
* Add GnuPG 2.x support. Add gnupg2 and gpgv2 as alternative Recommends to
gnupg and gpgv (to not pull them by default), but prefer gpgv2 over gpgv,
and gpg2 over gpg at run-time if they are available.
* Switch dpkg conflictor tracking from a fixed-size array to a queue,
fixing several related issues, due to conflictors not being removed from
the array after processing them. dpkg could fill it due to additions in
previous package processing producing very confusing error messages; and
a theoretical problem where a package could get appended to be removed,
then reinstalled as a new version, to get removed again when revisiting
the array in a subsequent package processing. Closes: #726112
* Do not accept empty field names in dpkg.
* Do not accept an initial hyphen in field names.
* Add experimental build profiles support:
- Add support for <!profile.name> build-time restrictions in dependencies.
- Add support for DEB_BUILD_PROFILES environment variable.
- Add new option -P to dpkg-buildpackage and dpkg-checbuilddeps.
- Add new Built-For-Profiles output field in .deb and .changes files.
Based on a patch by Patrick "P. J." McDermott <email address hidden>,
Wookey <email address hidden> and Johannes Schauer <email address hidden>.
Closes: #661538
* Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.5.
* Document interactions of dpkg-source --extend-diff-ignore and -i in the
man page. Closes: #729874
[ Updated programs translations ]
* German (Sven Joachim).
* Vietnamese (Trần Ngọc Quân).
[ Updated scripts translations ]
* German (Helge Kreutzmann).
[ Updated manpages translations ]
* French (Christian Perrier): fix incorrectly translated sentence,
thanks to Fabien Givors.
* German (Helge Kreutzmann).
-- Guillem Jover <email address hidden> Thu, 05 Dec 2013 04:56:31 +0100
