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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/source/c++/api.rst | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/source/library/apt_pkg.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/source/whatsnew/0.7.100.rst | 31 |
3 files changed, 30 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/doc/source/c++/api.rst b/doc/source/c++/api.rst index e807f4bb..97ab24d1 100644 --- a/doc/source/c++/api.rst +++ b/doc/source/c++/api.rst @@ -10,10 +10,7 @@ The C++ API names use the name of the class in apt_pkg and are prefixed with Py. For each supported class, there is a _Type object, a _Check() function, a _CheckExact() function, a _FromCpp() and a _ToCpp() function. -.. note:: - - This API is experimental and should not be used in stable program - releases. +.. versionadded:: 0.7.100 Acquire (pkgAcquire) -------------------- diff --git a/doc/source/library/apt_pkg.rst b/doc/source/library/apt_pkg.rst index 81dafd54..f1bc4845 100644 --- a/doc/source/library/apt_pkg.rst +++ b/doc/source/library/apt_pkg.rst @@ -1600,6 +1600,10 @@ section as a string. tagf = apt_pkg.TagFile(open('/var/lib/dpkg/status')) for section in tagfile: print section['Package'] + + .. versionchanged:: 0.7.100 + Added support for using gzip files, via :class:`gzip.GzipFile` or any + file containing a compressed gzip stream. .. method:: next() @@ -1653,7 +1657,7 @@ section as a string. Return ``True`` if *section* has a key *key*, else ``False``. - .. versionadded:: 0.8.0 + .. versionadded:: 0.7.100 .. method:: bytes() -> int @@ -1833,6 +1837,8 @@ Configuration and Command-line parsing Return a string containing the values in the configuration object, in the standard :manpage:`apt.conf(5)` format. + .. versionadded:: 0.7.100 + .. method:: exists(key) Check whether an option named *key* exists in the configuration. diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/0.7.100.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/0.7.100.rst index b7768405..eda27647 100644 --- a/doc/source/whatsnew/0.7.100.rst +++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/0.7.100.rst @@ -8,10 +8,14 @@ Despite the many changes made in python-apt 0.7.100, the release still provides backwards compatibility to the 0.7 series. This makes it possible to run your old applications. +This documents describes the important changes introduced since the release +of python-apt 0.7.10.3, starting with the first development release 0.7.90 +from April 2009. + .. note:: Applications using the old API should be updated to the new API because - the old ones will be dropped in the 0.8 release. To build a python-apt + the old ones will be dropped in a future release. To build a python-apt variant without the deprecated API, build it without the -DCOMPAT_0_7 compiler flag. @@ -158,9 +162,12 @@ C++ headers The 0.7.100 release introduces python-apt-dev which provides headers for developers to provide Python support in the libapt-pkg-using application. -.. warning:: - - The ABI is not considered stable yet. +Redesign of :mod:`apt_inst` +--------------------------- +The 0.7.100 series redesigns the :mod:`apt_inst` module to provide +more flexible classes replacing the older functions. The older functions +are still available in Python 2 builds, but are deprecated and will be +removed in the future. Other changes ------------- @@ -170,14 +177,20 @@ This release of python-apt also features several other, smaller changes: :class:`apt.Package()` object dynamically, instead of creating all of them during the cache initialization. * Support to set the candidate version in :class:`apt.package.Package` + * Support for reading gzip-compressed files in apt_pkg.TagFile. + * Various changes to :mod:`apt.debfile` have been merged from gdebi. + +There have been various other changes, see the changelog for a complete list +of changes. + -Porting your applications to python-apt 0.8 API ------------------------------------------------- -Porting your application to the new python-apt 0.8 API may be trivial. You +Porting your applications to the new python-apt API +---------------------------------------------------- +Porting your application to the new python-apt API may be trivial. You should download the source tarball of python-apt and run the tool -utils/migrate-0.8 using Python 2.6 over your code:: +utils/migrate-0.8 over your code:: - python2.6 utils/migrate-0.8.py -c myapp.py mypackage/ + utils/migrate-0.8.py -c myapp.py mypackage/ This will search your code for places where possibly deprecated names are used. Using the argument ``-c``, you can turn colorized output on. |