Changelog
debdelta (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
* debdeltas: can --clean unusable debdeltas
* debdelta: corrected bug (cannot gunzip a symlink)
debdelta (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
* debdelta_upgrade: thanks to Michael Vogt, now uses APT caches at best
* debdelta & debpatch: many improvements
- divide data.tar in small chunks
- always use bsdiff (xdelta is buggy)
- gunzip .gz files in data.tar before delta, and gzip after
(the delta of debhelper 5.0.35 -> 5.0.36 was 80% of original .deb
before, now it is to 10%)
debdelta (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
* debdeltas: deltas failed due to not enough disk space will be retried
* debdelta: better use of MD5; and a filename similarity matcher,
when in computing difference of data.tar.gz (unfortunately, slower)
also, solves a bug
+ debdelta_upgrade: properly quote URLs (before, it seemed as if
a lot of deltas were not present in the archives!);
better HTTP handling
debdelta (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
* debdelta: (by faking 2nd part of tar headers), some improvement for .deb
with many small files
* debdelta-upgrade : while the thread is patching, also download some
.debs for which deltas are not available.
debdelta (0.10) unstable; urgency=low
* safer code
* debdelta: produce shorter patch.sh, and uses bzip2
debdelta (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
* debdeltas:
'-n N' option, to decide how many deltas to compute for each package ;
'--avoid file' option, to avoid packages from a dist
('file' is a Python database, that can be created with contrib/parse_dist )
* debdelta : corrected bug, now really skip conf files !
* debdeltas : corrected bug, was not exiting from forks !
debdelta (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
* 'debdelta' can use MD5 to exploit identical files that were renamed.
This can express the difference between tetex-doc 3.0-17 and 3.0-18
into 260kB , even though all the directory tree was moved around !
debdelta (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
* 'debdelta-upgrade' uses a thread to patch and download at the same time
debdelta (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
* new program 'debdelta-upgrade' to download and apply deltas
(from my mirror)
debdelta (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
* new program 'debdeltas' to scan archive of debs
and create an archive of deltas
* 'debpatch' works on installed version of old deb,
even in case of dpkg diversions
debdelta (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
* 'debpatch' can use a delta to create the new .deb, even if
the old debian package file is not available, provided that
it is installed in the host
* code cleanup
debdelta (0.3) experimental; urgency=low
* use bsdiff when memory does not exceed 50Mb, and free disk space is enough
* ' debpatch --info patch' to just know info on a patch
debdelta (0.2) experimental; urgency=low
* Added getopt support. Reorganized code.
* Be careful of cwd when using os.path.abspath.
* Add parameters to patch.sh , in particular, support for '#unpack-old' keyword
* Graduated verbosity.
debdelta (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
* first alpha
* it works on two debs with gzip compression
-- Scott James Remnant <email address hidden> Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:23:55 +0100
