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2012-07-12Bump version to 0.6.9.1HEADmasterDaniel Hartwig1-7/+15
2012-07-10Use dpkg package names when calling dpkgDaniel Hartwig1-0/+3
Closes: #680333
2012-07-10Really silence errors when debtags is not installedDaniel Hartwig1-0/+3
Closes: #681021
2012-07-10Mention French update in NEWSDaniel Hartwig1-0/+1
2012-06-30Shamelessly copy installsize sortpolicy as debsize sortpolicyMarcel Partap1-0/+3
2012-06-30Do not group packages as tasks section based on their nameDaniel Hartwig1-0/+3
Closes: #679602
2012-06-30Disable use of libept by default; enable with --enable-eptDaniel Hartwig1-2/+4
Closes: #504153 Closes: #501732
2012-06-30Read tags from debtags database even when libept is disabledDaniel Hartwig1-0/+4
.. but fall back to Packages files if the database is not available.
2012-06-30Treat debtags always as strings; unify ept/non-ept interface to debtagsDaniel Hartwig1-1/+0
The behaviour of the non-ept interface has been updated and corrected, so that, for example, the debtags browser works correctly.
2012-06-30Trim NEWS slightly to make it more readableDaniel Hartwig1-43/+19
2012-06-30Partial fix for using debtags without libeptDaniel Hartwig1-0/+5
2012-06-30Use standard apt-xapian-index location, rather than libeptDaniel Hartwig1-0/+2
Part of the process to drop libept (see bug #677551): In src/generic/apt/matching/match.cc there's already #ifdefs to do everything via libxapian. The only ept-only bit is ept::axi::path_db(). That can be replaced with "/var/lib/apt-xapian-index/index", which is the standard index location which is NOT going to change (that's actually a xapian pointer to the real index location: try "cat /var/lib/apt-xapian-index/index"). Also add configure check for libxapian headers.
2012-06-28Guess changelog URI for third-party sitesDaniel Hartwig1-0/+3
Contruct a changelog file path for third party sites that do not use packages.debian.org/changelogs This simply uses the ArchiveURI() of the source pkg and looks for a .changelog file there. LP: #563155
2012-06-28Merge changelog URI construction from apt-getDaniel Hartwig1-0/+13
* src/generic/apt/pkg_changelog.cc: - use up-to-date changelog uri construction from apt-get using APT::Changelogs::Server * src/apt_options.cc: - drop disused Aptitude::Changelog-URL-Template * src/cmdline/cmdline_changelog.cc: - remove extraneous guess-work with source packages, which happened to also download the wrong changelog sometimes (Closes: #631464) - changelog download works with no deb-src lines, so we don't need to instruct the user to add any (Closes: #587775, #537393)
2012-06-28Update Polish translationMichał Kułach1-0/+4
Closes: #678153
2012-06-28Indicate more closed bugsDaniel Hartwig1-2/+5
Closes: #576212 LP: #919216 LP: #585408 Closes: #639789 LP: #734737
2012-06-28Improve multi-arch handling of package argumentsDaniel Hartwig1-0/+9
* [cmdline]: Package arguments without an arch-qualifier will also consider foreign-arch packages, in order of preference. (LP: #892074) * [cmdline]: Package arguments can use '*' wildcard in their arch-qualifier to select all matching packages, where 'any' would select only the first such package. LP: #892074
2012-06-28?architecture supports arch specification strings, wildcardsDaniel Hartwig1-0/+5
See Debian Policy § 11.1 for more info.
2012-06-21Document that --visual-preview exits with non-zero statusDaniel Hartwig1-0/+6
* [cmdline]: --visual-preview exits with non-zero status: - user quits (1); - a package fails to download and the user chooses not to continue (100); or - a package fails to install (100). (Closes: #282408) Closes: #282408
2012-06-20Do not do FixMissing automatically for command-line actionsDaniel Hartwig1-0/+11
When a package is not available or fails to download incorrectly aptitude would try to continue without it. This made it hard to detect errors automatically using the exit status. This behaviour is no longer the default, instead if there are missing packages an error will be displayed and the program exit with failure (100). If the user wishes to continue anyway, they can use --fix-missing or configure Aptitude::CmdLine::Fix-Missing in apt.conf. * [cmdline]: An install run will no longer proceed if any package was unavailable or failed to download correctly, instead an error will be shown and exit with non-zero status (100). (Closes: #121313, #302784) The old behaviour can be obtained with the new --fix-missing option or setting Aptitude::CmdLine::Fix-Missing. Closes: #121313 Closes: #302784
2012-06-20Tidy error handling in main, cmdline actionsDaniel Hartwig1-0/+103
Error conditions are much stricter, detecting errors is more reliable, and the exit status of all command-line actions is well-defined. All commands will return one of these values as their exit status: 0 – success 1 – user aborted (install, remove, …); or no matches (search, why, why-not); 100 – failure For commands whose arguments are lists of packages or search patterns the following general conditions hold: It is a failure if any package argument does not exactly name a package. It is a failure if any versioned argument requests a version which is not available for every package identified by that argument. Versioned arguments are those which end with a version or archive (release) specifier, respectively “=<version>” and “/<archive>”. If a command includes a request to install, remove, or purge any package that command will not proceed if any of the above failures occur. Other commands may still proceed in case of such failures but will exit with non-zero status to indicate they were not completely effective. Some commands have exceptions and/or extensions to the general conditions: install, upgrade, remove, …: Where a request specifies a virtual package it is a failure if it has either no provider or multiple providers. If there is only one provider that package will be selected instead of the virtual package. search: All arguments are considered patterns. Arguments without an explicit search term will be wrapped in an implicit ‘?name’ term. This is a major change from previous versions where the program would have proceeded and possibly exited with a status indicating success (0) despite some requested actions being either invalid or ineffective. The new, stricter behaviour is desirable for two reasons: - to prevent the situation where a request to replace one set of packages with another set proceeds when (some of) the replacements are not found or unavailable could cause the undesired removal of arbitrary other packages; - to make the program more atomic and reliable when used for automated tasks – by considering the entire request as being essential to success another program can rely on an exit status of 0 to mean that the request was completely carried out. Summary of changes: * Most errors are now displayed at the end of a command's output which makes them easier to spot when there is lots of output. (Closes: #430392) * [cmdline]: Virtual packages which have an already installed provider are only skipped when the requested action is to install them. * [cmdline]: install and similar actions have much stronger error checking and will exit more reliably with non-zero status on failures Failures which result in no action and a non-zero exit status (100): - a package argument does not exactly name an available package; - a versioned argument requests a version which is not available for every package it applies to (Closes: #590686); * [cmdline]: changelog exits with non-zero status on any error (Closes: #675833) * [cmdline]: search exit with status 1 if it found no matches (Closes: #497299) * [cmdline]: why exits with status 1 if it found no reasons given the particular arguments * [cmdline]: show will exit with status 100 if it found no packages or a named package was not found * unknown arguments do not show the usage screen * more errors are reported using GlobalError * clean up some strings used as error messages * download_install_manager.cc: - repeat if package manager result is DoAgain; - report all download errors not just the first; * cmdline_util.cc: - pkgset_from_string by default is no longer an error if a pattern matches no packages * [doc]: add section on exit status to the man page Closes: #430392 Closes: #497299 Closes: #590686 Closes: #675833
2012-06-16Use apt's CommandLine parserDaniel Hartwig1-0/+26
Previously aptitude was using it's own command line parser implemented on top of getopt. Replacing this with the standard apt class means there are no longer subtle quirks with our parser (such as "-qq" not being valid, when it is fine for other apt programs). The parser is closely tied to the Configuration, and reads options directly in to the global apt config. Some options were tracked independently of the global config; this change is the first part rectifying that situation. The goal is to keep all program options, configuration state, etc. in the global config rather than passing state variables between functions. Many options which previously did not have an associated configuration item now do; some remain undocumented for now as they are transitional. * handle "-qq" like other apt-utils * properly process all -o command line options (Closes: #587671) * unknown command line options trigger an error (Closes: #434502) * --add-user-tag-to, --remove-user-tag-from are working; no bug reports suggests that noone has noticed they were broken New aliases for some command-line options: --yes, for --assume-yes (apt-get) --default-release, for --target-release (apt-utils) --install-on-startup, for -i --update-on-startup, for -u New configuration item: Aptitude::CmdLine::Sorting, equivalent to --sort Other new configuration items are for internal use only at this point. Closes: #587671 Closes: #434502
2012-06-14Use arch-qualified names for virtual packages in more placesDaniel Hartwig1-0/+5
2012-06-08Regex strings count as search patternsDaniel Hartwig1-0/+10
Apt-utils treat regex strings as a search pattern, we should too.
2012-06-08Add pkgset helpersDaniel Hartwig1-0/+5
Ported some code from apt cacheset.cc to populate a pkgset. The function pkgset_from_string will fill a given pkgset with either the exactly named package, or the packages matched by a string predicated by is_pattern. In the future, we should look to directly use the apt cacheset infrastructure. This is currently blocked by our custom implementation of pkgCacheFile (see aptcache.h). Errors that occur in looking up the package (such as no package with that name, or an invalid search pattern) are pushed to the global error list with a customizable error_type (default: ERROR).
2012-06-08Update build files for 0.6.9Daniel Hartwig1-0/+3
2012-06-01Fix (again) typo in German translationDaniel Hartwig1-1/+1
Closes: #668875
2012-05-31Tidy generation, encoding of README filesDaniel Hartwig1-0/+3
Encoding issues are now taken care of by html-to-text. No longer are there "ASCII" hacks in stylesheets and such. Some READMEs were available but not installed. Even though some of these are older translations they are now all installed to the system. * doc/aptitude-txt.xsl: - removed ASCII hacks which did not work * doc/fixup-text: - removed this script, no longer needed * doc/html-to-text: - now takes mandatory output encoding argument * explicitly set encodings - README.en → ISO-8859-1 - README.{cs,es,fr,fi,it,ja} → UTF-8 * po/*.po: - updated for these changes - clear incorrect msgstr where the translator had mistaken the purpose of "README"
2012-05-31Fix groff warning in manpageDaniel Hartwig1-0/+1
Closes: #675085
2012-05-30Restore candidate version on undo, keepDaniel Hartwig1-0/+6
Previously, undo incorrectly restored the candidate to be currently installed version. Keep did not restore it at all. Closes: #529403
2012-05-30Encoding of README.fr is UTF-8Daniel Hartwig1-1/+1
LP: #642840
2012-05-30Remove redundancy in doc build systemDaniel Hartwig1-0/+8
Lots of code was duplicated between makefiles for the various translations. Much of this is now in common rules files making it easier to add new translations. Translations that use po4a and provide full documentation have been updated to use the new includes. Some work is still required to make this compatible with the non-po4a and partial translations. * doc/common.mk: - common rules for doc makefiles * doc/po4a.mk: - common rules for po4a makefiles * doc/po4a/po4a.cfg: - new po files are picked up automatically - translate also safety-cost-level-diagram.svg * doc/po4a/Makefile.am: - update-po only updates the po files * doc/po4a/po/Makefile.am: - include aptitude.pot in dist files * doc/{es,fr,it}/Makefile.am: - use common rules
2012-05-28Fix minor errors in documentBeatrice Torracca1-0/+2
* doc/en/aptitude.xml: - 2 instances of the command "versions" mispelled as "version" * doc/en/manpage.xml: - an error in the explanation of the dependency resolver costs: 2*removals + 3*upgrades should mean that three removals (2*3) equals 2 upgrades (3*2). Closes: #674675
2012-05-27Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.debian.org/git/aptitude/aptitudeChristian PERRIER1-0/+30
2012-05-27Italian translation of documentationChristian PERRIER1-0/+1
2012-05-26Update package views after 'Cancel pending actions'Daniel Hartwig1-0/+3
Closes: #595753
2012-05-26Update to tasks support: task packages, multi-arch, syntaxDaniel Hartwig1-0/+3
Task packages (introduced with tasksel 3.0) are meta-packages which define the dependencies of tasks. The packages themselves have always worked but the 'tasks' grouping policy and '?task' search term did not support them. This update corrects for this. As a result of this change to tasksel all Debian tasks now function exactly like meta-packages. (Closes: #382631) The syntax for installing tasks from the command line has been updated. It now supports specifying an arch and requires the same syntax as apt-utils ('^' must be the last part of the name). Examples: # aptitude install gnome-desktop^ # aptitude install ssh-server^:armel This avoids ambiguity that may arise when a task and package have the same name. Closes: #382631
2012-05-26Update to tasks support: task packages, multi-arch, syntaxDaniel Hartwig1-0/+22
Task packages (introduced with tasksel 3.0) are meta-packages which define the dependencies of tasks. The packages themselves have always worked but the 'tasks' grouping policy and '?task' search term did not support them. This update corrects for this. As a result of this change to tasksel all Debian tasks now function exactly like meta-packages. (Closes: #382631) The syntax for installing tasks from the command line has been updated. It now supports specifying an arch and requires the same syntax as apt-utils ('^' must be the last part of the name). Examples: # aptitude install gnome-desktop^ # aptitude install ssh-server^:armel This avoids ambiguity that may arise when a task and package have the same name. Closes: #382631
2012-05-24Fold some near-duplicate stringsDaniel Hartwig1-0/+2
2012-05-23Update French translationJean-Baka Domelevo Entfellner1-0/+1
Closes: #673827
2012-05-23Update Simplified ChineseDaniel Hartwig1-0/+1
2012-05-23Adjust default widths of localized columns: broken_count, downloadsizeDaniel Hartwig1-0/+5
Closes: #674045
2012-05-23Update German translationHolger Wansing1-0/+4
Closes: #672467
2012-05-11Update NEWSDaniel Hartwig1-0/+5
2012-05-11Add doctype headers to html docs.Daniel Hartwig1-0/+4
2012-05-11Support really big files in the download systemDaniel Hartwig1-0/+20
This follows recent changes in apt which added support for files greater than several gigabytes in size -- using the 'unsigned long long' type to store the file size. Changelog download is restored as a result of this. Closes: #669569 LP: #824708
2012-05-03Preview screen ignores Pkg-Display-LimitDaniel Hartwig1-0/+7
Previously it would apply that limit if UI::Preview-Limit was not set. This was causing confusion and it is more useful to have these as two clearly distinct settings. LP: #381507
2012-05-03Actually use aptitude::Logging::LevelsDaniel Hartwig1-0/+2
Closes: #654344
2012-05-03'install' actions lock /var/cache/apt/archivesDaniel Hartwig1-0/+10
Other tasks which access that directory (such as 'apt-get clean') will now fail if aptitude is downloading or installing packages. (Closes: #370381)
2012-05-02Fix check_boost.sh for out-of-tree buildsDaniel Hartwig1-0/+2