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authorJulian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com>2020-01-15 22:01:54 +0100
committerJulian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com>2020-01-15 22:19:17 +0100
commit21cb4a9e513ccb6f376fbcaf67957c4851cbbe32 (patch)
treed18cb6cf693d955e8d4b38300981e23938b9f995 /debian/NEWS
parent5db3a38926aa820546c411dd9f49f57eea24cd9e (diff)
apt(8): Disable regular expressions and fnmatch
This is the first step. Next step will be to add warnings to apt-get and then remove support there as well.
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+apt (1.9.6) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ apt(8) no longer treats package names passed as regular expressions or fnmatch
+ expressions, requiring the use of patterns (apt-patterns(5)) to perform complex
+ searches. For ease of use, regular expressions starting with ^ or ending with
+ $ continue to work.
+
+ This fixes the problem where e.g. g++ could mean either "the package g++"
+ or, if there is no g++ package, "all packages containing g". This change
+ will propagate to apt-* after the release of Debian bullseye.
+
+ -- Julian Andres Klode <juliank@ubuntu.com> Wed, 15 Jan 2020 21:45:18 +0100
+
apt (1.9.5) unstable; urgency=medium
Credentials in apt_auth.conf(5) now only apply to https and tor+https