Changelog
dpkg (1.18.16) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Guillem Jover ]
* Add support for specifying multiple targets on «dpkg-buildpackage -T»
which will be run successively. Closes: #671074
* Reject empty upstream versions in C and perl code. These are not permitted
by deb-version(5), but the code was letting those through.
* Use lzma_cputhreads() instead of sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN) as the
former is way more portable.
* Automatically decrease xz encoder threads to try to not exceed available
memory limits. This should alleviated the insane requirements of memory
needed on 32-bit architectures with many cores, which results in more
than the userspace addressable memory, when using settings such as
-z9 and/or -Sextreme in dpkg-deb. Closes: #846564
* Add new dpkg --validate-<thing> commands to validate the syntax of
various <thing>s, where the current list is «pkgname», «trigname»,
«archname» and «version».
* Use the new dpkg --validate-version command in dpkg-maintscript-helper,
instead of abusing the --compare-versions command to perform version
validation. Closes: #844701
* Allow readlink(2) to return a size smaller than stat(2) in dpkg. Some
bogus filesystems do not return the actual symlink size in st_size,
which contradicts POSIX. But allowing the case where the returned size
is smaller than the one used to allocate memory is harmless, although
suspect. Let it through, but still print a warning so that users can
install stuff but are reminded they need to get a fixed filesystem in
place. This has affected at least ecryptfs in the past and now
file-based encryption support in ext4 on Android N.
* Add new dpkg-query virtual field source:Upstream-Version. Closes: #84434
* Perl modules:
- Whitelist DPKG_GENSYMBOLS_CHECK_LEVEL, DPKG_ROOT, DPKG_ADMINDIR and
DPKG_DATADIR environment variables in Dpkg::Build::Info.
* Documentation:
- State the current working directory used when running dpkg-buildpackage
hooks.
- Add a new ENVIRONMENT section to dpkg-gensymbols(1) and document
DPKG_GENSYMBOLS_CHECK_LEVEL there.
- Fix bogus description of --force-confmiss in dpkg(1). Regression
introduced in 1.16.4. Reported by Sven Joachim <email address hidden>.
Closes: #846395
- Update dpkg-parsechangelog parser options. The options specific to
the changelog parser program did not get updated when the parser got
switched to be a perl module. Missed in dpkg 1.18.8.
* Build system:
- Enable compression libs also in automatic check mode in configure.
- Honor DPKG_DATADIR again in the installed Dpkg modules. This was an
explicit public interface, documented in the man page.
[ Updated programs translations ]
* Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #848378
* Simplified Chinese (Zhou Mo). Closes: #844955
[ Updated scripts translations ]
* German (Helge Kreutzmann).
* Swedish (Martin Bagge). Closes: #847220
[ Updated man pages translations ]
* Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #848379
* German (Helge Kreutzmann).
-- Guillem Jover <email address hidden> Sat, 17 Dec 2016 00:25:53 +0100
