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authorDaniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>2011-05-14 21:03:35 -0700
committerDaniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>2011-05-14 21:03:49 -0700
commit3028fa5a81a7b71d569abb13430631cd75c8ae89 (patch)
treeb5e55f3d5aba288a812ca371d3cfa3bcd859758d /NEWS
parent6d5174f0f5561b74dcf02ec11131dbcae8a6b429 (diff)
downloadaptitude-3028fa5a81a7b71d569abb13430631cd75c8ae89.tar.gz
Update the changelog to include details of new patches added since the last edit.
Also adds a note about a bug that I fixed but that wasn't reported yet (FTBFS with gcc 4.6).
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@@ -10,6 +10,40 @@ earlier releases.
in the hierarchy editor, if the current user's home
directory couldn't be determined. (Closes: #612034)
+- Crashes and serious errors:
+
+ * [all]: Don't crash when apt-xapian-index isn't installed. (Closes: #588089)
+
+ - Interprets "~" as "?name(~)" instead of "?term(~)"
+
+ - If the Xapian index isn't available, attempts to mimic its
+ behavior to a first approximation: not perfectly, but enough
+ to make ?term and ?term-prefix do something sensible.
+
+ * [all]: Restore aptitude's old treatment of the auto flag, meaning
+ that instead of clearing the flag when the user asks to
+ upgrade a package, we leave it set. Worked around a change
+ in apt's behavior by forcibly preserving the auto flag's
+ setting regardless of what pkgDepCache::MarkInstall thinks
+ is right this week. (Closes: #622719)
+
+- New features:
+
+ * [curses]: Add a "source" grouping policy that groups packages by
+ their source package name. Thanks to Thadeu Lima de
+ Sourza Cascardo for the patch, sorry it took so long to
+ apply! (Closes: #497206)
+
+- Minor bugs:
+
+ * [all]: Fixed the debug logging code to output TRACE-level
+ messages.
+
+ * [all]: Fixed the debug logging code to properly allow log levels
+ to be disabled.
+
+ * [all]: Fixed the resolver cost levels for installs and upgrades.
+
- Internal changes:
* [all]: Include the current time and thread ID in all debug log
@@ -22,13 +56,7 @@ earlier releases.
student Piotr Galiszewski. Not really in a usable state
yet.
-- Minor bugs:
-
- * [all]: Fixed the debug logging code to output TRACE-level
- messages.
-
- * [all]: Fixed the debug logging code to properly allow log levels
- to be disabled.
+ * [all]: Fixed build errors with gcc 4.6 (Closes: #624948)
- Cosmetic and UI bugs: