Changelog
aptitude (0.7.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release. Please see /usr/share/aptitude/NEWS for a change
log with more details.
- New features:
* [curses] Show Origin and URI in pkg info screen
(Closes: #294040, #457794, #513622, #611515)
* [cmdline] Print version of provider of virtual package in
conflicts/broken (Closes: #802943)
* [cmdline] Show packages that will not be upgraded with verbose>0
(Closes: #553577)
* [cmdline] Notify of 'Download Only' mode before confirmation to
continue (Closes: #446265, #804287)
* [cmdline] When simulating do not prompt for removal of essential
packages (Closes: #613049)
* [cmdline] When simulating, add notice before confirmation to
continue actions (Closes: #173277)
* Use XDG_CACHE_HOME spec instead of ~/.aptitude/cache (Closes: #671780)
* Print useful message when package lists are out of date
(Closes: #758764)
* [curses] Allow to hide bottom half in several screens (Closes: #453853)
* [curses] Show hostname on header line (Closes: #398101)
* Log now distinguishes between remove and purge (Closes: #705612)
* [cmdline] Improve error reporting of add/remove-user-tags
(Closes: #652421)
* Reuse format string %T also for user-tags (Closes: #498442, #665824)
* Add format strings for Source (%E), Architecture (%e) and
Origin (%O) (Closes: #248561, #604982, #760608)
* [curses] Provide more info about broken packages in solution
screen (Closes: #642800)
* Don't use __DATE__ & __TIME__ when printing version, for
reproducible builds
- Bug fixes:
* [cmdline] Fix problems in 'build-depends' causing malfunctions
(Closes: #802532)
* [curses] Use default string for Default-Grouping when config is
empty (Closes: #405970)
* [curses] Improve message when becoming root fails (Closes: #516854)
* [cmdline] For "search", use candidate or, if does not exist,
current version rather than a random version to show information
about the package (Closes: #490593)
* Check that the config files are valid, otherwise exit (Closes: #472701)
* Use new config_file.{h,cc} to improve config file management
(Closes: #504152, #502617, #442937, #407284)
* When becoming root with 'su', pass along "--login" (Closes: #190784)
* Return an error if adding/removing tags without "root" (Closes: #725272)
* Format string '%t' tells about locally installed packages
(Closes: #349413)
* Save state before package reconfiguration (to not be lost)
(Closes: #474876)
* [curses] Allow to view changelogs of packages in Backports
(Closes: #755677)
* Get the real pin priority in "versions" and other cases
(Closes: #640731)
* Use new user-tags implementation, more secure (Closes: #792601)
* Upgrades can do downgrades when pinned high (>1000, see apt_preferences)
(Closes: #344700, #348679)
Note that downgrading is highly discouraged in general, though.
- User visible changes:
* [cmdline] Minor improvements to help (Closes: #497136)
* [cmdline] Hide Show-Why reasons when the string is empty
(Closes: #576584)
* [cmdline] Slightly improve and reformat --help
* [cmdline] Document add/remove-user-tag in --help
- Documentation:
* manpage:
* Separate two elements in --add-user-tag-to description with comma,
they were displayed together
* Guide/User's Manual:
* Add keybindings for menu bar (Closes: #365298)
* debian/patches:
- Remove cherry-pick-cfc3c6b9-apt-1.1-compatibility.patch
* debian/control:
- New Build-Depends on libboost-filesystem-dev
-- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <email address hidden> Tue, 08 Dec 2015 22:14:03 +0000
