Change log for germinate package in Debian

germinate (2.44) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Bump the recursion limit to 6000 (LP: #2058460)

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden>  Wed, 20 Mar 2024 12:23:19 +0100

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• diff from 2.43 to 2.44 (607 bytes)

germinate (2.43) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Michael Hudson-Doyle ]
  * Perform shallow clones of seed repos.
  * Add a way to use an apt config file to locate the indices.

  [ Julian Andres Klode ]
  * Take over maintenance from Colin, set Maintainer to
    <email address hidden>, and add myself to uploaders.

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden>  Fri, 02 Feb 2024 16:21:39 +0100

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• diff from 2.42 to 2.43 (2.3 KiB)

germinate (2.42) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Julian Andres Klode ]
  * Allow seeds to declare alternative dependencies as fallbacks. These
    are not resolved further, but only added to the generated meta package
    dependencies.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Thu, 31 Aug 2023 16:46:41 +0100

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• diff from 2.41 to 2.42 (2.2 KiB)

germinate (2.41) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Remove germinate/tests/test_lint.py.  It wasn't set up to honour the
    top-level setup.cfg when run from pybuild, and lint checks are handled
    by pre-commit hooks now anyway.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Mon, 10 Jul 2023 11:16:49 +0100

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• diff from 2.39 to 2.41 (35.9 KiB)
• diff from 2.40 to 2.41 (1.1 KiB)

germinate (2.40) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Update standards version to 4.6.2, no changes needed.
  * Drop support for Python < 3.3 (including Python 2).
  * Change default non-VCS seed location to
    https://ubuntu-archive-team.ubuntu.com/seeds/ (adding recommendation of
    ca-certificates).
  * Change default distribution to mantic.
  * Change default architecture to amd64.
  * Reformat code using black, pyupgrade, and isort.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Mon, 03 Jul 2023 16:19:59 +0100

germinate (2.39) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Modernize Python packaging, removing distutils dependency (closes:
    #1022429).
  * Upgrade to debhelper v13.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Sat, 05 Nov 2022 07:20:01 +0000

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• diff from 2.38 to 2.39 (3.4 KiB)

germinate (2.38) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fix ABC imports for Python 3.10 (closes: #1002401).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Thu, 23 Dec 2021 13:24:31 +0000

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• diff from 2.37 to 2.38 (943 bytes)

germinate (2.37) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Iain Lane ]
  * Make fetching over HTTP have a timeout (LP: #1912495).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Fri, 05 Mar 2021 21:35:09 +0000

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• diff from 2.36 to 2.37 (1.9 KiB)

germinate (2.36) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Christian Ehrhardt ]
  * Improve ordering of rescued packages (LP: #1895106).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Mon, 25 Jan 2021 12:56:40 +0000

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• diff from 2.34 to 2.36 (1.4 KiB)

germinate (2.34) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fix lint errors with latest flake8 (closes: #963390).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Mon, 22 Jun 2020 08:35:19 +0100

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• diff from 2.33 to 2.34 (618 bytes)

germinate (2.33) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Document (no-)follow-build-depends in germinate(1).
  * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends; some of these are needed
    during the clean target (e.g. python3-setuptools), and since germinate
    builds no architecture-dependent packages it isn't worth maintaining
    these lists separately.

  [ Steve Langasek ]
  * Add a new follow-build-depends-all feature.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Sun, 22 Mar 2020 21:51:51 +0000

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• diff from 2.32 to 2.33 (2.8 KiB)

germinate (2.32) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Remove ancient X-Python-Version and X-Python3-Version fields.
  * Upgrade to debhelper v9.
  * Install debhelper extension using debhelper rather than from setup.py.
  * Convert to pybuild.
  * Apply "wrap-and-sort -at".
  * Simplify the approach for injecting the package version.
  * Add tox testing support.
  * Drop support for Python 3.2 (which lacked u"..." literals).
  * Use six instead of hand-written Python 2/3 portability code.
  * Use testtools rather than plain unittest/unittest2.
  * Silence noisy logging from test suite.
  * Switch from pychecker to flake8.
  * Drop Python 2 binary package (but still supported upstream).
  * Policy version 4.4.0: no changes required.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Wed, 07 Aug 2019 11:43:16 +0100

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• diff from 2.31 to 2.32 (13.0 KiB)

germinate (2.31) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Set Homepage to https://launchpad.net/germinate (closes: #923388).
  * Use HTTPS form of copyright-format URL.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Wed, 27 Feb 2019 13:05:05 +0000

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• diff from 2.30 to 2.31 (726 bytes)

germinate (2.30) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Build with LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 so that setup.py handles non-ASCII characters
    in debian/changelog correctly (closes: #913262).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Fri, 09 Nov 2018 12:16:27 +0000

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• diff from 2.29 to 2.30 (497 bytes)

germinate (2.29) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Jelmer Vernooij ]
  * Use secure URI in Vcs control header.

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Set Rules-Requires-Root: no.

  [ Steve Langasek ]
  * Skip use of deprecated 'imp' module, and just try/except the import
    we actually want.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Wed, 07 Nov 2018 12:28:26 +0000

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• diff from 2.28 to 2.29 (1013 bytes)

germinate (2.28) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Support versioned Provides (LP: #1758004).
  * Build-depend on dh-python.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:18:15 +0000

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• diff from 2.27 to 2.28 (3.4 KiB)

germinate (2.27) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Iain Lane ]
  * Initial support for specifying snaps in seeds.

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Drop support for Python 3.0 and 3.1.
  * Change default distribution to bionic.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Mon, 29 Jan 2018 18:04:40 +0000

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• diff from 2.26 to 2.27 (5.5 KiB)

germinate (2.26) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Add an --always-follow-build-depends option to force germinate to follow
    Build-Depends regardless of seed feature flags.
  * Change default distribution to zesty.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Thu, 26 Jan 2017 21:36:20 +0000

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• diff from 2.25 to 2.26 (1.9 KiB)

germinate (2.25) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Cope with malformed Built-Using fields, since we only started checking
    these recently and so older series have some errors.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Tue, 19 Apr 2016 10:12:03 +0100

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• diff from 2.24 to 2.25 (628 bytes)

germinate (2.24) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Dimitri John Ledkov ]
  * Create a [no-]follow-build-depends feature; follow by default.
  * Expand source package by adding the Built-Using set.  Treat all
    Built-Using as if part of the build-dependency tree.

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Change default distribution to xenial.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Thu, 14 Apr 2016 22:45:06 +0100

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• diff from 2.23 to 2.24 (3.4 KiB)

germinate (2.23) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Handle Build-Depends-Arch, introduced in dpkg 1.16.4.
  * Require at least Python 2.7 and simplify some code accordingly.
  * Prefer Packages.xz and Sources.xz to other compression formats if
    possible.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Wed, 09 Dec 2015 13:11:16 +0000

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• diff from 2.22 to 2.23 (3.3 KiB)

germinate (2.22) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Raise a slightly more useful exception if python-apt fails to parse a
    dependency.
  * Work around lack of build profile support in older versions of
    apt/python-apt.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Tue, 18 Aug 2015 16:57:42 +0100

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• diff from 2.21build1 (in Ubuntu) to 2.22 (2.2 KiB)

germinate (2.21) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fix broken germinate-update-metapackage caused by overenthusiastic
    sorting of imports.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Tue, 19 May 2015 17:24:13 +0100

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• diff from 2.20 to 2.21 (611 bytes)

germinate (2.20) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Switch to git; adjust Vcs-* fields.
  * Add support for fetching seeds from git (LP: #1455689).
  * Change default distribution to wily.
  * Policy version 3.9.6: no changes required.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Mon, 18 May 2015 10:07:11 +0100

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• diff from 2.19 to 2.20 (7.4 KiB)

germinate (2.19) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Make it possible to add a custom seed with no parents.
  * Fix TagFile.sections to use try/finally so that the temporary directory
    reliably gets cleaned up.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Sat, 20 Sep 2014 00:20:59 +0100

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• diff from 2.18 to 2.19 (1.3 KiB)

germinate (2.18) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Fix Vcs-Bzr field so that it actually works with bzr.  Adjust
    Vcs-Browser field to match.
  * Allow subclasses of SeedStructure to override a new make_seed method in
    order to slot in a different Seed implementation.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Fri, 18 Jul 2014 16:07:01 +0100

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• diff from 2.17 to 2.18 (1.2 KiB)

germinate (2.17) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Bump recursion limit to 3000; apparently utopic trips over the existing
    limit (LP: #1312478).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Fri, 25 Apr 2014 00:54:11 +0100

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• diff from 2.16 to 2.17 (544 bytes)

germinate (2.16) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Quote slashes in suite names when constructing local tag file names
    (thanks, Eugene Paskevich).
  * Change default distribution to trusty.
  * Update kubuntu-meta example in germinate-update-metapackage(1).
  * Policy version 3.9.5: no changes required.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:40:02 +0100

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• diff from 2.15 to 2.16 (1.8 KiB)

germinate (2.15) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Use type and selector attributes of urllib.request.Request in Python >=
    3.1 rather than the deprecated get_type and get_selector accessor
    methods, fixing a build failure with Python 3.4 which removed these
    methods entirely.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Wed, 15 Jan 2014 00:46:59 +0000

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• diff from 2.14 to 2.15 (938 bytes)

germinate (2.14) unstable; urgency=low


  * Micro-optimise lesser seeds calculation in
    Germinator._promote_dependency.
  * Amend dh_germinate_metapackage(1) to note that this program must be run
    after dh_prep.
  * Tolerate missing reasons when writing output.  This is possible when
    germinate is being run over multiple flavours for the same architecture,
    and packages are promoted differently between seeds depending on the
    flavour.  We can't generate a correct reason without a heavy performance
    cost in this case, but we can at least not crash.
  * Remove a few unnecessary "if condition: return True; else: return False"
    patterns.
  * Support multiarch (build-)dependency qualifiers (:any, :native).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Fri, 11 Oct 2013 20:00:19 +0100

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• diff from 2.13 to 2.14 (4.0 KiB)

germinate (2.13) unstable; urgency=low


  * Fix dh_germinate_clean(1) and dh_germinate_metapackage(1) to recommend
    syntax compatible with debhelper 8.
  * Policy version 3.9.4:
    - Add a Vcs-Browser field.
  * Change default distribution to saucy.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:50:22 +0100

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• diff from 2.12 to 2.13 (1.6 KiB)

germinate (2.12) unstable; urgency=low


  * Add dists option to distribution sections in
    germinate-update-metapackage configuration, making it more useful for
    released distributions.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:13:58 +0000

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• diff from 2.11 to 2.12 (997 bytes)

germinate (2.11) unstable; urgency=low


  * Use collections.defaultdict instead of manually initialising elements.
  * Simplify some sorted() calls, relying on the default iterator for
    mappings being .keys().
  * Simplify code to clean up bzr cache, removing an unnecessary helper
    function.
  * Add support for reading seeds from relative filesystem paths (thanks,
    Sjoerd Simons; LP: #1010186).
  * Only allow dh_python2 to operate on python-germinate, to avoid chaos
    caused by shebang rewriting.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:12:41 +0100

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• diff from 2.10 to 2.11 (3.8 KiB)

germinate (2.10) unstable; urgency=low


  * Always open Packages files as UTF-8, regardless of the current locale.
    LP: #1025818.

 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden>  Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:33:43 +0100

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• diff from 2.9 to 2.10 (959 bytes)

germinate (2.9) unstable; urgency=low


  * Support both Python 2 and 3 directly rather than using 2to3.
  * Make various cosmetic changes to conform to PEP-8.
  * Switch the top-level scripts to Python 3 by default.  (They can still be
    run manually with /usr/bin/python if need be.)
  * Update copyright dates.
  * Policy version 3.9.3:
    - Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:30:05 +0100

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• diff from 2.8 to 2.9 (9.3 KiB)

germinate (2.8) unstable; urgency=low


  * Build-depend on python-unittest2 so that the test suite works with
    Python 2.6 (closes: #661608).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:20:40 +0000

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• diff from 2.7 to 2.8 (608 bytes)

germinate (2.7) unstable; urgency=low


  * Explicitly specify the encoding to io.open so that tests pass even in
    the C locale.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:40:47 +0000

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• diff from 2.6 to 2.7 (743 bytes)

germinate (2.6) unstable; urgency=low


  * Fix processing of multiple suites where there are different versions of
    a package with different Provides fields.
  * Fix SeedStructure.write_seed_text to handle UTF-8 text in seeds
    correctly.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:53:34 +0000

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• diff from 2.5 to 2.6 (2.4 KiB)

germinate (2.5) unstable; urgency=low


  * Stop fetching Suggests from Packages; we don't use it.
  * Build a cache of seed entries when analysing reverse-dependencies, so
    that we don't have to expensively call get_seed_entries once per package
    per seed (LP: #915569).
  * Convert to setuptools.
  * Add the beginnings of a test suite.
  * Make the main bodies of scripts into modules so that they can be tested
    more easily.
  * Remove private AtomicUTF8File class; just write all files as UTF-8.

  * Port to Python 3:
    - Use "raise Exception(value)" syntax rather than the old-style "raise
      Exception, value".
    - Use Python 3-style print functions.
    - Use a list comprehension rather than filter (which behaves differently
      in Python 3).
    - Make GraphCycleError a subclass of Exception rather than of
      StandardError.
    - Simplify stringiness tests in TagFile.__init__ and Seed.__init__ using
      basestring.
    - Implement rich comparison methods instead of __cmp__ for Seed and
      GerminatedSeed.  (Seed needs all of them for interface-compatibility;
      GerminatedSeed only needs __eq__ and __ne__.)
    - Use Python 3 replacements for urllib, urllib2, and ConfigParser if
      available.
    - When decompressing tag files from the archive, explicitly treat
      everything as binary data.
    - In Python 3, decode seed data read from URLs as UTF-8.
    - Pass universal_newlines=True to subprocess.Popen to get Unicode
      output.
    - Make sure to close stdout of subprocess.Popen objects.
    - Use 2to3 to handle the few remaining 2/3 differences at build time.
    - Add a python3-germinate package.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:51:28 +0000

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• diff from 2.4 to 2.5 (26.6 KiB)

germinate (2.4) unstable; urgency=low


  * Make Kernel-Version lexically scoped from the point in the seed where
    it's encountered to either the end of the seed or the next
    Kernel-Version entry, whichever comes first.  Previously, the set of
    Kernel-Version values allowed for a seed was the union of all
    Kernel-Version entries in the seed, which is not what we want in
    practice.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:48:31 +0000

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• diff from 2.3 to 2.4 (3.2 KiB)

germinate (2.3) unstable; urgency=low


  * Adjust AtomicFile to not rename the .new file into place if the context
    exited with an exception (thanks, Jeroen T. Vermeulen).
  * Cope with an Archive implementation returning Maintainer values that are
    already unicode.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:24:36 +0000

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• diff from 2.2 to 2.3 (1.0 KiB)

germinate (2.2) unstable; urgency=low


  * Fix Germinator._follow_recommends to prevent a crash while calculating
    reverse-dependencies (LP: #900404).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:48:38 +0000

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• diff from 2.1 to 2.2 (863 bytes)

germinate (2.1) unstable; urgency=low


  * Call superclass constructor in GerminateFormatter's constructor.
  * Build-depend on python-all.
  * Store instances of Seed as GerminatedSeed._raw_seed, rather than
    instances of BytesIO which are transient and won't compare the way we
    need them to.
  * Remove build-sources entries that also appear in sources outputs at
    output time rather than immediately, which has the effect of removing
    sources that appear in any seed in the structure rather than just those
    processed earlier.  This fixes behaviour when processing multiple seed
    structures, but also seems to fit more closely with the original intent
    of build-sources as documented in README, which I think was broken all
    the way back in r70 when seed hierarchies were first allowed to fork.
  * Fix inclusion/exclusion of packages from seeds other than "extra".

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:51:12 +0000

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• diff from 2.0 to 2.1 (1.8 KiB)

germinate (2.0) unstable; urgency=low


  * Make sure to always close files after finishing with them.  Mostly this
    is done using the 'with' statement in Python 2.6, but pychecker gets
    unhappy with contextlib.closing so I carried on using traditional
    try/finally blocks in cases that would require that.
  * Remove all uses of os.system and os.popen, replacing them with uses of
    the better-designed subprocess module.
  * Remove all code supporting the germinate -i/--ipv6 option; this has been
    off by default since November 2004, the service behind this was
    discontinued in March 2007
    (http://lists.debian.org/debian-ipv6/2007/02/msg00015.html), and
    germinate was never a great place to track this kind of thing anyway.
  * Convert all option parsing to optparse.  Consolidate defaults into a new
    Germinate.defaults module.
  * Update copyright dates.
  * Move canonical source location from people.canonical.com to a hosted
    branch on Launchpad.
  * Slightly modernise use of dh_python2.
  * Forbid seed names containing slashes.
  * Eliminate most uses of list.sort() in favour of sorted(iterable).
  * When promoting dependencies from lesser seeds, remove them from the
    lesser seed lists at output time rather than immediately.  This is
    mostly to make it easier to process multiple seed structures, but also
    fixes a long-standing bug where promoted dependencies were only removed
    from a single arbitrary lesser seed rather than from all possible ones.
  * Memoise the results of Germinator's _inner_seeds, _strictly_outer_seeds,
    and _outer_seeds methods.  This saves nearly a third of germinate's
    runtime in common cases.
  * Write all output files atomically.
  * Change default distribution to precise.
  * Update kubuntu-meta example in germinate-update-metapackage(1).
  * Refer to versioned GPL file in debian/copyright.
  * Policy version 3.9.2: no changes required.

  * Massive API cleanup:
    - Move output-writing functions from the top-level germinate program
      into Germinator.
    - Redesign how Germinator gets Packages/Sources sections from the
      archive.  This now works via an abstract interface, which should make
      it easier to plug in alternative archive sources (e.g. a database).
    - Move all apt_pkg interaction into library code.  Germinator.__init__
      now takes an architecture argument so that it can set
      APT::Architecture.
    - Turn open_seed into a Seed class, allowing it to be a context manager.
    - Move code pertaining to the structure of seeds into a SeedStructure
      class, simplifying the interface.
    - Make all module names lower-case, per PEP-8.  Remove the separate
      Germinate.Archive.tagfile module; this is now in germinate.archive
      directly.  Adjust build system and pychecker handling to support this.
    - Remove unnecessary logging helper functions.
    - Don't modify level names on the root logger simply as a result of
      importing germinate.germinator; move this into a function.
    - Prefix all private methods with an underscore.
    - Remove germinate.tsort from germinate's public API.
    - Convert all method names to the PEP-8 preferred style (method_name
      rather than methodName).
    - Introduce wrapper functions for the various uses of write_list and
      write_source_list, and make the underlying methods private.
    - Make most instance variables private by prefixing an underscore,
      adding a few accessor methods.
    - Convert build system to distutils, make the germinate Python package
      public, and create a new python-germinate binary package.
    - Improve the Seed class so that seeds can be read multiple times
      without having to redownload them, and so that they remember which
      branch they came from.
    - Don't modify inner seeds when processing outer ones; filter
      build-dependencies on output instead.
    - Don't plant or grow seeds that have already had functionally-identical
      versions planted or grown respectively.
    - Automatically convert string dists/components/mirrors/source_mirrors
      arguments to lists in TagFile constructor.
    - Make it possible for a single Germinator to process multiple seed
      structures, reusing the work done on common seeds.
    - Canonicalise mirrors (by appending '/' if necessary) in TagFile rather
      than in the main germinate program.
    - Handle the extra seed entirely within Germinator rather than modifying
      SeedStructure (which doesn't fit well with processing the same seed
      structure on multiple architectures).
    - Use module-level loggers.
    - Get rid of the custom PROGRESS log level.
    - Change germinate.archive to use logging rather than print.
    - Add docstrings for all public classes and methods, and tidy up a few
      existing ones per PEP-257.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:16:54 +0000

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• diff from 1.27 to 2.0 (57.0 KiB)

germinate (1.27) unstable; urgency=low


  [ Alexandros Frantzis ]
  * Change local tag file name format to permit multiple repositories on the
    same host (LP: #634831).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:32:12 +0100

germinate (1.26) unstable; urgency=low


  * Use 'bzr branch' rather than 'bzr get'; the latter is apparently
    deprecated in bzr 2.4.
  * Change default distribution to oneiric.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:25:22 +0100

germinate (1.25.1) unstable; urgency=low
  * Add a new option, --no-installer, allowing one to process seeds    without considering debian-installer udebs in the output. -- Adam Conrad <adconrad@0c3.net>  Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:19:29 -0600

germinate (1.25) unstable; urgency=low
  * Only raise an exception from open_tag_files if an appropriate file is    not found on any mirror (thanks, Tom Gall, Steve Langasek, and Barry    Warsaw; LP: #717879). -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:36:38 +0100

germinate (1.24) unstable; urgency=low
  * Always refresh copies of local Packages and Sources files (i.e. when    using the file: scheme). -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:32:07 +0000

germinate (1.23) unstable; urgency=low


  * Write out entire decompressed Packages/Sources files in one go, rather
    than line-by-line.  This is a bit faster.
  * Convert to dh_python2.
  * Change default distribution to natty.
  * Update kubuntu-meta example in germinate-update-metapackage(1) (remove
    ia64 and sparc).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:09:07 +0100

germinate (1.22) unstable; urgency=low


  * Change default distribution to maverick.
  * Update kubuntu-meta example in germinate-update-metapackage(1) (remove
    lpia).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:18:27 +0100

germinate (1.21) unstable; urgency=low


  [ Julian Andres Klode ]
  * Port the code to the new python-apt API and require at least
    version 0.7.93.2 of python-apt (closes: #571744).

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Convert to source format 3.0 (native).
  * Policy version 3.8.4: no changes required.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:24:24 +0100

germinate (1.20) unstable; urgency=low


  * Add 'make check' which runs pychecker if available, and make it pass.
  * Change default distribution to lucid.
  * Update kubuntu-meta example in germinate-update-metapackage(1) (add
    netbook; remove hppa; add armel).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:50:56 +0000

germinate (1.19) unstable; urgency=low


  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Fix interpretation of architecture-specific regex seed entries where the
    regex contains a character class (which looks a bit like an architecture
    specification in the wrong light).

  [ Loïc Minier ]
  * Document --source-mirror option in germinate(1).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:55:16 +0100

germinate (1.18) unstable; urgency=low


  * Make germinate-update-metapackage write out a metapackage-map file,
    which is useful for later determining the set of seeds and metapackages
    to build.
  * Add a debhelper addon, useful for building metapackages.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:36:23 +0100

germinate (1.17) unstable; urgency=low


  * Use people.canonical.com everywhere rather than people.ubuntu.com.
  * Change default distribution to karmic.
  * Convert to debhelper 7. I've taken some care to avoid use of the new
    override targets since Ubuntu hardy-jaunty don't have a debhelper that
    supports those.
  * Policy version 3.8.2: no changes required.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:38:01 +0100

germinate (1.16) unstable; urgency=low


  * Pass germinate-update-metapackage's list of components to debootstrap.
  * Replace internal wiki link in README with something world-readable.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:16:40 +0100

germinate (1.15) unstable; urgency=low


  * Fix handling of archives that only contain uncompressed index files
    (thanks to Chris Cheney for the report).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:34:09 +0100

germinate (1.14) unstable; urgency=low


  * If germinate-update-metapackage fails, just print a message on stderr
    and exit 1, rather than raising RuntimeError (LP: #323714).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:59:32 +0000

germinate (1.13) unstable; urgency=low


  * Document 'germinate -v' in its manual page.
  * Report stderr as well as stdout from debootstrap failures (thanks, Loïc
    Minier; LP: #331488).
  * Use 'key in dict' rather than 'dict.has_key(key)'; dict.has_key is
    deprecated in Python 2.6.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:33:13 +0000

germinate (1.12) unstable; urgency=low


  * Change default distribution to jaunty.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:52:21 +0000

germinate (1.11) unstable; urgency=low


  * Keep going if the blacklist file can't be downloaded. (This was always
    the intent, but foiled by an implementation error.)
  * Clarify the purpose of individual blacklist entries in seeds in
    germinate(1).
  * Render the description of special seed syntax in germinate(1) as a tag
    list, to make it easier to read.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:07:21 +0100

germinate (1.5) unstable; urgency=low


  * Consider whether there are any moves as well as additions or removals
    when deciding whether to run dch.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:36:56 +0100