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apt (1.6~alpha6) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Julian Andres Klode ]
  * Add Breaks: aptitude (<< 0.8.10) for gzip method removal
  * Also look at https_proxy for https URLs
  * Run wrap-and-sort
  * Translate shared documentation parts again
  * tests: Improve handling profiling messages on CI
  * connect: Store the IP used when picking a connection
  * Add rapid "happy eyeballs" connection fallback (RFC 8305) (Closes: #668948)
    (LP: #1308200)

  [ David Kalnischkies ]
  * allow multivalue fields in deb822 sources to be folded (Closes: 881875)
  * support COLUMNS environment variable in apt tools
  * allow apt_auth.conf(5) to be translated
  * if insecure repo is allowed continue on all http errors
  * don't auto-switch candidate if installed is good enough
  * update libapt-pkg symbols file
  * explicitly name token in auth.conf parsing error
  * fix over-calculating dpkg commandline length
  * avoid some useless casts reported by -Wuseless-cast
  * deal with floats without old-style cast
  * support multiline values in LookupTag
  * mark some 500 HTTP codes as transient acquire errors
  * report transient errors as transient errors
  * implement Acquire::Retries support for all items
  * give the methods more metadata about the files to acquire
  * implement fallback to alternative URIs for all items
  * do not remap current files if nullptrs in cache generation
  * apt.daily: remove unused dbus signal for apt update (Closes: 849636)
  * Support cleartext signed InRelease files with CRLF line endings.
    Thanks to Lukas Wunner for detailed report & initial patch! (Closes: 884922)
  * document http options in new apt-transport-http manpage
  * document https options in new apt-transport-https manpage
  * refactor message generation for methods
  * allow a method to request auxiliary files
  * reimplement and simplify mirror:// method
  * require methods to request AuxRequest capability at startup
  * add tag-based control over mirror choices from the list
  * non-local mirrorlists shouldn't redirect to local
  * add apt-transport-mirror manpage

  [ Milo Casagrande ]
  * Italian program translation update (Closes: 882850)

  [ Christian Göttsche ]
  * apt.daily: fix several "shellcheck" annotations

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden>  Wed, 03 Jan 2018 22:33:37 +0000

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apt: commandline package manager

 This package provides commandline tools for searching and
 managing as well as querying information about packages
 as a low-level access to all features of the libapt-pkg library.
 .
 These include:
  * apt-get for retrieval of packages and information about them
    from authenticated sources and for installation, upgrade and
    removal of packages together with their dependencies
  * apt-cache for querying available information about installed
    as well as installable packages
  * apt-cdrom to use removable media as a source for packages
  * apt-config as an interface to the configuration settings
  * apt-key as an interface to manage authentication keys

apt-dbgsym: debug symbols for apt
apt-doc: documentation for APT

 This package contains the user guide and offline guide for various
 APT tools which are provided in a html and a text-only version.

apt-transport-https: transitional package for https support

 This is a dummy transitional package - https support has been moved into
 the apt package in 1.5. It can be safely removed.

apt-utils: package management related utility programs

 This package contains some less used commandline utilities related
 to package management with APT.
 .
  * apt-extracttemplates is used by debconf to prompt for configuration
    questions before installation.
  * apt-ftparchive is used to create Packages and other index files
    needed to publish an archive of Debian packages
  * apt-sortpkgs is a Packages/Sources file normalizer.

apt-utils-dbgsym: debug symbols for apt-utils
libapt-inst2.0: deb package format runtime library

 This library provides methods to query and extract information
 from deb packages. This includes the control data and the package
 file content.

libapt-inst2.0-dbgsym: debug symbols for libapt-inst2.0
libapt-pkg-dev: development files for APT's libapt-pkg and libapt-inst

 This package contains the header files and libraries for
 developing with APT's libapt-pkg Debian package manipulation
 library and the libapt-inst deb/tar/ar library.

libapt-pkg-doc: documentation for APT development

 This package contains documentation for development of the APT
 Debian package manipulation program and its libraries.
 .
 This includes the source code documentation generated by doxygen
 in html format.

libapt-pkg5.0: package management runtime library

 This library provides the common functionality for searching and
 managing packages as well as information about packages.
 Higher-level package managers can depend upon this library.
 .
 This includes:
  * retrieval of information about packages from multiple sources
  * retrieval of packages and all dependent packages
    needed to satisfy a request either through an internal
    solver or by interfacing with an external one
  * authenticating the sources and validating the retrieved data
  * installation and removal of packages in the system
  * providing different transports to retrieve data over cdrom, ftp,
    http(s), rsh as well as an interface to add more transports like
    tor+http(s) (apt-transport-tor).

libapt-pkg5.0-dbgsym: debug symbols for libapt-pkg5.0