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2016-05-12edsp: warn if unexpected stanzas appear in the solutionDavid Kalnischkies
Unexpected are for examples removal requests for versions which aren't installed, installations of already installed versions & requests to install and remove a package at the same time.
2016-05-12edsp: document unique package identifiersJohannes 'josch' Schauer
Document that package identifiers must be unique (apt only uses the last action for a given identifier) and that install requests do also imply upgrades and downgrades (and thus removal of the old version). This is to prevent that solvers express an upgrade or downgrade instruction as two stanzas: a removal of the old version and an installation of the new version. Instead, a single install stanza is sufficient to express upgrade or downgrade requests.
2016-05-10edsp: support generic and solver-specific configsDavid Kalnischkies
The spec was slightly inconsistent if the preferences setting is available only as generic or specific setting & the code only supported the specific one, while for the strict-pinning was only generic… As the usual pattern for apt is to have both options we adapt the spec and code to support both as well. This also adds a purely informal "Solver" field so in case the request is saved in a file, we know to which solver the sent preferences apply. Closes: 823918
2015-09-14add Source-Version field for EDSPDavid Kalnischkies
The syntax of "Source" is different in EDSP compared to the the field of the same name in 'the rest' of Debian, so documented this accordingly and send the version as a new field.
2014-06-18EDSP doc: some typo and wording fixesDavid Kalnischkies
Git-Dch: Ignore
2014-06-18EDSP doc: (minor) consistently use 2 blank lines before headingsStefano Zacchiroli
Git-Dch: Ignore
2014-06-18EDSP doc: clarify that Install/Remove packages are arch-qualifiedStefano Zacchiroli
2014-05-04EDSP: add APT-Release field to Package stanzasStefano Zacchiroli
2014-05-04EDSP: add Architecture(s) multi-arch fields to the Request stanzaStefano Zacchiroli
2014-05-04EDSP: bump protocol version to 0.5Stefano Zacchiroli
2014-05-04EDSP doc: fix typo in Request stanza descriptionStefano Zacchiroli
2011-05-17rename option APT::Solver::Name to simply APT::SolverDavid Kalnischkies
2011-04-04add Dir::Bin::Solvers to enable customization of solver directoryStefano Zacchiroli
EDSP version 0.4
2011-04-04edsp: rename and drop very-draft warningsStefano Zacchiroli