dpkg (1.21.1) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Guillem Jover ]
* dpkg-buildpackage: Remove duplicate command print for dpkg-genchanges.
* dpkg-buildpackage: Fix build description due to improper multiline match.
* dpkg-realpath: Remove spurious heading space from --help output.
* update-alternatives: When initializing admindir from DPKG_ADMINDIR append
"/alternatives".
* Code internals:
- Remove <ar.h> inclusions.
* Packaging:
- Install deb-md5sums(5) into dpkg-dev package.
dpkg (1.21.0) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Guillem Jover ]
* dpkg-genchanges: Include orig tarball on source package renames.
* scripts: Consider SHA-1 and RIPEMD-160 weak algorithms in OpenPGP
signatures.
* dpkg: During unpack print a removal message due to Conflicts.
* scripts: Add zsh completions for dpkg-parsechangelog.
* dpkg-buildpackage: When printing build type match the extension exactly.
* dpkg-maintscript-helper: Use xargs -I argument instead of deprecated -i.
* dpkg-maintscript-helper: Quote variable inside ${} to avoid pattern match.
* libdpkg: Fix dpkg_fsys_get_path() to always strip leading / and ./.
* libdpkg: Set the default database directory relative to the system root.
* dpkg-divert, dpkg-statoverride: Set admindir after instdir.
* update-alternatives: Fix admindir setting.
Prompted by Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@debian.org>.
* dselect: Honor DPKG_ADMINDIR environment variable.
* dpkg-query, dpkg-trigger, dselect: Add support for setting the root
directory.
* dpkg-fsys-usrunmess: Move forced reconfiguration to the last step.
* dpkg-fsys-usrunmess: Install a local policy-rc.d to ignore service
restarts.
* dpkg-fsys-usrunmess: Do not fail when removing lingering directories.
* dpkg-fsys-usrunmess: Generate a regression prevention package.
* dpkg-fsys-usrunmess: Fix typo in debug message.
* dpkg: Distinguish deconfiguration message for installation and multi-arch
syncs.
* dpkg-buildpackage: Add new --changes-file option.
Prompted by Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>.
* dpkg-buildpackage: Add new --buildinfo-file option.
* dpkg: Rework --assert-<feature> logic to be more robust.
Prompted by Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>.
Prompted by David Kalnischkies <donkult@debian.org>.
* dpkg: Improve --assert-<feature> descriptions.
* dpkg: Add a new --assert-help option.
* scripts/mk: Pass DEB_BUILD_PATH to dpkg-buildflags.
* dpkg-db-backup: New program factored out from Debian-specific daily cron.
* dpkg-db-backup: Accept an option to override the number of rotation cycles.
* dpkg-db-backup: Honor the admindir set at configure time.
* update-alternatives: Fix --auto and --set-selections output progress.
* update-alternatives: Print defaults for configuration and database
pathnames.
* scripts: Replace shebang in dpkg-error shell library with shellcheck
directive.
* dpkg-buildpackage: Add support for terse DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
* dpkg-mergechangelogs: Add new --merge-unreleased option.
* dpkg: Restore fallback to "new-prerm failed-upgrade" for downgrades.
* dselect: Use safe temporary file creation in methods setup.
* dselect: Remove bashism from update script in multicd method.
* dpkg: Fix --verify to handle missing or inaccessible pathnames.
* dpkg: Add partial --verify support for mode checks.
* Use «digest» instead of «hash» in output messages.
Reported by Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>.
* dselect: use `grep -E` instead of `egrep`.
* libdpkg: Fix memory leak on End Of Tape condition in tar parser.
* dpkg: Fix short lived memory leak with --recursive.
* dpkg: Fix conffile removal-on-upgrade handling.
* dpkg-deb: Fix conffile name length tracking on remove-on-upgrade parsing.
Reported by uau on IRC.
* Architecture support:
- Clarify that the regex columns need to be ordered to match first.
- Add support for ARCv2 CPU.
Based on a patch by Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com>.
* Portability:
- start-stop-daemon: Define SOCK_NONBLOCK to 0 if not defined.
- libdpkg: Add support for AIX to dpkg_get_progname().
* Perl modules:
- Dpkg::Source::Quilt: Add hint to check missing files on patch apply
failures.
Reported by Joseph Nahmias <jello@debian.org>.
- Dpkg::Changelog::Parse: Require format plugins to inherit from
Dpkg::Changelog.
- Dpkg::OpenPGP: Refactor openpgp implementation execution into a new
function.
- Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Refactor compiler flag names into an array.
- Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Add new lto feature in new optimize area.
- Test::Dpkg: Print actual error messages in test_neutralize_checksums().
- Dpkg::Deps: Use current_sub feature for __SUB__.
- Dpkg::BuildFlags: Add support for ASFLAGS.
See https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debhelper/-/merge_requests/50.
- Dpkg::Compression: Use gzip --rsyncable unconditionally.
- Dpkg::Changelog::Entry::Debian: Fix full month misuse warning.
- Dpkg::Shlibs::Symbol: Emit a warning on fully qualified symver patterns.
- Dpkg::Control::HashCore: Add new keep_duplicate option.
- Dpkg::Control::FieldsCore: Add new field_parse_binary_source().
- Dpkg::Control::FieldsCore: Fix types allowed for
field_parse_binary_source().
- Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump: Fix apply_relocations to work with versioned
symbols.
- Dpkg::Vendor::Ubuntu: Update Maintainer field logic to include
“canonical”.
- Dpkg::Source::Package::V2: Add hint about version matching source tree.
* Documentation:
- man: Itemize dpkg-gensymbols -c levels.
- man: Add man page for deb-md5sums(5).
Reported by Maxim Cournoyer (on IRC).
- man: Switch the Architecture field in deb-control(5) to required.
Reported by Maxim Cournoyer (on IRC).
- man: Make clear that dpkg-query arguments accept multiple values.
- man: Document dpkg-query --search and --listfiles output formats.
- doc: Fix incorrect use of ‘an’ article.
- doc: Update coding style to document POD instead of troff.
- doc: Update THANKS file.
- doc: Annotate current maintainer start year.
- doc: Sort maintenance information chronologically.
- man: Add versions since features where introduced.
- man: Further clarify when re-inclusions of excluded pathnames happen.
- doc: Update Doxygen configuration from version 1.9.1.
- doc: Improve description of dpkg suite.
Prompted by Fabrice Bauzac-Stehly <noon@mykolab.com>.
- man: Add a reference to where the Installed-Size algorithm is described.
- man: Improve dpkg --verify-format rpm format documentation.
- man: Document in deb-substvars(5) what ${} is good for.
Prompted by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>.
- man: Document in dpkg-architecture(1) target being useful for emulators
too. Prompted by Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>.
- man: Document in dpkg-query(1) full --search and --listfiles output
format. Prompted by Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@debian.org>.
* Code internals:
- Remove irrelevant or obsolete FIXME markers.
- Turn FIXME markers denoting pending actions into TODO markers.
- Turn FIXME markers giving historic information into simple Notes.
- update-alternatives: Turn FIXME for explicit behavior choice into an XXX.
- Use localtime_r() instead of localtime().
- libdpkg: Remove MDEBUG support from m_malloc() implementation.
- libdpkg: Mark dpkg_arch_unmark() arch_remove argument as const.
- libdpkg: Mark treewalk_open() func argument as const.
- dpkg: Mark ignore_depends() pkg argument as const.
- dpkg: Mark deb_parse_conffiles() pkg argument as const.
- libcompat: Remove local setexecfilecon() and require libselinux 2.3.
- libdpkg: Add missing DPKG_{BEGIN,END}_DECLS in header files.
- dpkg: Move SE Linux function declarations into its own header file.
- dpkg: Move the command action enum to its own header file.
- dpkg: Switch from including "main.h" to "force.h".
- dselect: Rename dme() to display_menu_entry().
- dpkg: Split function handling deconfiguration due to install and removal.
- libdpkg: Add new ACTION_MUX macro for continued options.
- dpkg: Refactor --assert-<feature> handling to be data driven.
- dpkg-fsys-usrunmess: Do not use interpolated strings for literals.
- dpkg-db-backup: Add a license header comment.
* Build system:
- Fallback to $^X and 'perl' if $Config{perlpath} is unset or empty.
- Bump minimal Perl version to 5.28.1.
- Remove redundant localedir and pkgconfdir initializations.
- Check for libsocket.
- Do not set have_libmd on the found branch in AC_SEARCH_LIBS.
- Switch DPKG_FUNC_C99_SNPRINTF from AC_LANG_SOURCE to AC_LANG_PROGRAM.
- Check whether fsync(3) works on directories.
- Remove obsolete AC_HEADER_STDC.
- Detect appropriate sed program at configure time.
- Rename DPKG_DEB_PROG_TAR to DPKG_PROG_TAR.
- Parametrize the backups directory with a configure option.
- Add a check for symlinks in the git repository.
- Rename shell scripts to .sh.
- Switch from hardcoded /run to parametrized runstatedir.
- Use new Dpkg::Control keep_duplicate option in gen-changelog.
- Use title-case for field in gen-changelog.
- Execute run-script via CONFIG_SHELL.
Reported by Larkin Nickle <me@larbob.org>.
- Quote variables containing pathnames in m4 macros.
- Add support for commit message fix up machinery in gen-changelog.
* Packaging:
- Use absolute pathnames in .install debhelper fragments.
- Remove unused dh_installcron call for arch-indep targets.
- Add support for a native systemd timer.
- Create auotpkgtest installation directory.
- Bump Standards-Version to 4.6.0 (no changes needed).
* Test suite:
- Pass --ignore-builtin-builddeps to dpkg-buildpackage.
- Use can_run() instead of find_command().
- Add descriptions to makefile test runners.
- Add unit tests for architecture bijective mapping property.
- Suppress cppcheck constParameter check.
- Suppress bogus cppcheck for nullPointerRedundantCheck.
- Mark external sourced shell files for checking.
- Ignore new shellcheck checks.
- Remove shipped dpkg database.
- Add re-inclusion of symlink case to t-filtering.
- Generate symlink during test build time.
- Remove superfluous long filename.
- Refactor parse_ctrl() from parse_dsc().
- Update codespell stopwords.
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