Dear Friends, I plan to do an apt 0.7.2 upload for sid this weekend. It's a big merge of the version in debian/experimental and the version in Ubuntu.
It will break the ABI, so all packages that depend on libapt will need a rebuild against this version (so expect a bit of a transition until everything is rebuild). It should be straightfoward, I will do uploads for synaptic and python-apt, I hope that the other depends follow quickly (I will be happy to do NMUs if someone asks me about it). The big new stuff is: - translated package descriptions (finally!) - thanks to all the people who made this possible (otavio, grisu and the ones that I forgot) - support for the new dpkg "Breaks" field (thanks to Ian Jackson for his work on this) - apt-https support (based on libcurl) - automatic removal of unused dependencies moved into libapt so that applications like synaptic, python-apt, update-manger etc directly benefit from it. A HUGE thanks to Daniel Burrows (one of my personal heros) for his work on this feature. - automatic installation of recommends like aptitude - support for unattended installing security upgrades (via the unattended-upgrades package and the apt cronjob) Plus bug fixes and translation updates. I also asked for a project on alioth for apt so that we can have a shared bzr repository for the current debian versions. This way e.g. Christian Perrier can commit his very valuable i18n updates directly to the repository. I also hope that more people can get access so that the load is a bit more shared. My day-job keeps me pretty busy so I'm not as responsive to bugs or feature requests as I would like to (my apologizes for this). I would like to move to sha256 authentication internally in the short term. I would also love to find a way in the future to interface with the aptitude dependency problem resolver (that is superiour to the one in libapt). Thanks, Michael P.S. My bzr repository is at: http://people.debian.org/~mvo/bzr/apt/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
