2010/8/21 Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org>: > We're (finally) getting ready to start this. Can you provide an outline > of the changes you want to get in?
Basically the package which is bumming around in experimental plus a few bugfixes which are in the pipeline and (hopefully a lot) of updated translations Christian Perrier intends to work on at the start of September [0] (doesn't block the transition itself, just as a note and as an early question for a freeze exception). Most notable changes are: * MultiArch ABI changes (disabled at runtime per default) * download and usage of multiple description translation files * dynamic growable mmap (no more "mmap ran out of room") * be able to use gzip compressed indexes directly * a new (more human readable) history.log file * be able to handle dpkgs disappearing packages feature * support deb files bigger than 2 GB * support for architecture wildcards as declared by d-policy 3.9 * rewrite and abstraction of the commandline parsing resulting in the ability to understand e.g. apt-cache depends apt-u.*/installed * a complete sync with ubuntu with very few remaining differences (this version is shipped and tested since ~2 weeks in ubuntu/maverick and hasn't caused serious issues so far) * a big bunch of other bugfixes (including at least 2 rc's) accumulating since February in experimental… A more complete changelog can be viewed in *drum roll* debian/changelog [1] or in the sometimes slightly more verbose bazaar history [2]. Julians "needs" regarding python-apt and co. are included in his mail send earlier this month. [3] Further more we would be still happy about a comment or two on bug #558784 [4] as asked for in April or so as debian-archive-keyring is "your" package and at least part of the "problem"… Fixing it would mean that debian-archive-keyring doesn't need gpg to install the keyring in APT and APT just needs gpgv for apt-secure dropping gnupg from important (at least in APTs dependency chain)… Best regards, David Kalnischkies P.S.: Michael and I will try to be online at the releaseteam-meeting today in the case release team should have instant questions… [0] http://lists.debian.org/deity/2010/08/msg00115.html [1] http://bzr.debian.org/loggerhead/apt/apt/debian-sid/annotate/head:/debian/changelog [2] http://bzr.debian.org/loggerhead/apt/apt/debian-sid/changes [3] http://lists.debian.org/deity/2010/08/msg00020.html [4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=558784 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=flnyx8mzxuuedo1fgmueyvhpxkpkagvukk...@mail.gmail.com
