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The "Flatulent Elm of West Ruislip" Release.
* Actions and package states are now logged by default in the
/var/log/dpkg.log file. This file is rotated monthly and can be
disabled by commenting the line in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.
* User decisions about conffiles are now logged.
* dpkg-source no longer complains about Enhances field. Closes: #159642,
#159745, #159746.
* preinst no longer relies on procps being installed. Closes: #311808.
* Architecture Support:
- Change DEB_*_GNU_CPU from i386 to i486, to reflect reality.
DEB_*_ARCH_CPU remains at i386, you should be checking against that.
Closes: #310394.
- Fixed order ostable is read to prevent Linux becoming the Hurd.
Closes: #309603.
* Updated Manpage Translations (Christian Perrier):
- Syntax error corrected in Swedish man page for dpkg-deb.
Closes: #300980.
- Syntax error corrected in Spanish man page for dpkg-scanpackages.
Closes: #300981
-- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com> Mon, 6 Jun 2005 05:34:21 +0100
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* md5sum has been removed, the coreutils or textutils version will be
diverted to /usr/bin/md5sum. Closes: #6633, #136110.
The following bugs are filed against the dpkg md5sum, so no longer apply.
Closes: #95755, #193877, #223381, #264195, #270241, #286632,
* Take Replaces into account when installing packages; don't issue a
"trying to overwrite" error if the file that already exists is in
a package that Replaces the one being installed.
Closes: #164595, #184635, #277890.
* Allow actions and status changes to be logged to a file. Disabled by
default, uncomment line in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg to enable.
Closes: #957, #53376, #77109, #143882, #284499.
* Don't truncate output of 'dpkg -l' when stdout is not a tty.
Closes: #92263, #253860, #258608, #261822, #282790.
* Fix further compilation problems with gcc 4.0. Closes: #299699
* Handle tar files without trailing slash in directory names.
Closes: #287152.
* Output arguments to maintainer scripts with -D2. Closes: #237684,
#296030.
* Architecture Support:
- Added ppc64. Closes: #263743.
- Split archtable into cputable and ostable, archtable is retained
for compatibility with other packages that might use it only.
- dpkg-architecture no longer canonises -t argument. Closes: #173205.
- dpkg-architecture output includes new DEB_*_ARCH_OS and
DEB_*_ARCH_CPU variables that contain the Debian system and CPU
names respectively.
- dpkg-architecture outputs (mostly) correct GNU system names now,
in particular this means that it will output "linux-gnu" instead
of "linux". You should use the new _ARCH_OS variables instead.
* Documentation:
- Add examples to dpkg-divert(8). Closes: #291816.
- Correct typo in dpkg-architecture(1). Closes: #299090.
-- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com> Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:21:32 +0000
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