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2016-01-14change debian related entities to a more explicit nameDavid Kalnischkies
Git-Dch: Ignore
2016-01-08Release 1.2~exp11.2_exp1Julian Andres Klode
2016-01-08keep compressed indexes in a low-cost formatDavid Kalnischkies
Downloading and storing are two different operations were different compression types can be preferred. For downloading we provide the choice via Acquire::CompressionTypes::Order as there is a choice to be made between download size and speed – and limited by whats available in the repository. Storage on the other hand has all compressions currently supported by apt available and to reduce runtime of tools accessing these files the compression type should be a low-cost format in terms of decompression. apt traditionally stores its indexes uncompressed on disk, but has options to keep them compressed. Now that apt downloads additional files we also deal with files which simply can't be stored uncompressed as they are just too big (like Contents for apt-file). Traditionally they are downloaded in a low-cost format (gz) as repositories do not provide other formats, but there might be even lower-cost formats and for download we could introduce higher-cost in the repositories. Downloading an entire index potentially requires recompression to another format, so an update takes potentially longer – but big files are usually updated via pdiffs which has to de- and re-compress anyhow and does it on the fly anyhow, so there is no extra time needed and in general it seems to be benefitial to invest the time in update to save time later on file access.
2016-01-02Italian manpages translation updateBeatrice Torracca
Closes: 809522
2015-12-30Release 1.1.101.1.10Julian Andres Klode
2015-12-27fix 3 typos/omissions in apt.conf(5)Beatrice Torracca
Closes: 809160
2015-12-27Release 1.1.91.1.9Julian Andres Klode
2015-12-27doc/acquire-additional-files.txt: Mention apt-helper cat-fileJulian Andres Klode
People should know that this is exists.
2015-12-26Release 1.1.81.1.8Julian Andres Klode
This release is made for Niels Thykier and apt-file.
2015-12-26Release 1.1.71.1.7Julian Andres Klode
2015-12-241.1.6 Christmas releaseJulian Andres Klode
2015-12-19buildsystem: deal with spaces in path to sourceDavid Kalnischkies
Git-Dch: Ignore
2015-12-14Release 1.1.51.1.5Julian Andres Klode
2015-12-14mention APT::AutoRemove::{Recommends,Suggests}Important optionAndreas Metzler
Closes: 807413
2015-12-07Release 1.1.41.1.4Julian Andres Klode
2015-12-02use @CHANGEPATH@ as placeholder in changelog URI templatesDavid Kalnischkies
This should make it more obvious that CHANGEPATH is a placeholder which apt will replace with a package specific path rather than a string constant. Mail-Reference: <87d1upgvaf.fsf@deep-thought.43-1.org> Mail-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/debian-dak/2015/12/msg00005.html
2015-11-30release 1.1.31.1.3Michael Vogt
Git-dch: ignore
2015-11-28Release 1.1.21.1.2Julian Andres Klode
2015-11-27./prepare-release pre-export1.1.1Michael Vogt
2015-11-26release apt 1.11.1Michael Vogt
2015-11-26Fix missing </literal> in sources.list.5.xml pageMichael Vogt
Git-Dch: ignore
2015-11-26Merge remote-tracking branch 'donkult/debian/experimental' into ↵Michael Vogt
debian/experimental
2015-11-26reword Trusted paragraph in sources.list(5)Justin B Rye
Git-Dch: Ignore
2015-11-25Run ./prepare-release pre-exportMichael Vogt
2015-11-25update manpage last-modified from git via pre-export hookDavid Kalnischkies
Never updating this information is wrong, updating it automatically isn't super correct either, but it seems conventional to have it and updating it more often than needed seems better than updating it never. Git-Dch: Ignore
2015-11-25enforce a slightly more sensible default headerDavid Kalnischkies
In 12f7536 I chose to opt for a slightly better text which avoids assigning copyright to the FSF (not because it would be wrong to do it, but is usually not what the contributor intended, but just the default. xgettext has a --foreign flag for avoiding the copyright, but po4a hasn't and an empty copyright-holder doesn't work either, so this little rework of files with sed and cat. Git-Dch: Ignore
2015-11-25typo: run s#frontend#front-end# on all of src:aptDavid Kalnischkies
The manpages were fixed by Justin B Rye, lets deal with the rest now. Git-Dch: Ignore
2015-11-25review sources.list(5) manpageJustin B Rye
2015-11-25review apt-secure(8) manpageJustin B Rye
2015-11-25review apt-mark(8) manpageJustin B Rye
2015-11-25review apt(8) manpageJustin B Rye
2015-11-21review of new/changed translatable program stringsJustin B Rye
Reference mail: https://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-english/2015/11/msg00006.html
2015-11-20fix a few typos in code-comments/apt manpageDavid Kalnischkies
Reported-By: codespell Git-Dch: Ignore
2015-11-19more sensible default text in pot filesDavid Kalnischkies
Git-Dch: Ignore
2015-11-19Dutch manpages translation (NEW)Frans Spiesschaert
Closes: 805474
2015-11-04support arch:all data e.g. in separate Packages fileDavid Kalnischkies
Based on a discussion with Niels Thykier who asked for Contents-all this implements apt trying for all architecture dependent files to get a file for the architecture all, which is treated internally now as an official architecture which is always around (like native). This way arch:all data can be shared instead of duplicated for each architecture requiring the user to download the same information again and again. There is one problem however: In Debian there is already a binary-all/ Packages file, but the binary-any files still include arch:all packages, so that downloading this file now would be a waste of time, bandwidth and diskspace. We therefore need a way to decide if it makes sense to download the all file for Packages in Debian or not. The obvious answer would be a special flag in the Release file indicating this, which would need to default to 'no' and every reasonable repository would override it to 'yes' in a few years time, but the flag would be there "forever". Looking closer at a Release file we see the field "Architectures", which doesn't include 'all' at the moment. With the idea outlined above that 'all' is a "proper" architecture now, we interpret this field as being authoritative in declaring which architectures are supported by this repository. If it says 'all', apt will try to get all, if not it will be skipped. This gives us another interesting feature: If I configure a source to download armel and mips, but it declares it supports only armel apt will now print a notice saying as much. Previously this was a very cryptic failure. If on the other hand the repository supports mips, too, but for some reason doesn't ship mips packages at the moment, this 'missing' file is silently ignored (= that is the same as the repository including an empty file). The Architectures field isn't mandatory through, so if it isn't there, we assume that every architecture is supported by this repository, which skips the arch:all if not listed in the release file.
2015-11-04revamp all tools help messagesDavid Kalnischkies
The general idea is: A small paragraph on the tool itself as a description, a list of the most used (!= all) commands available in the tool, a remark where to find more information on the tool and its commands (aka: in the manpage) and finally a common block referring to even more manpages. In exchange options are completely omitted from the output as well as deprecated or obscure commands. (Better) Information about them is available in the manpages anyway and the few options which were listed before were also the least interesting ones (-o -c -q and co are hardly of interest for someone totally new looking to find info by asking for help and anyone with a bit of experience doesn't need this short list. Those would need a list of options applying to the command they call, but they are too numerous and command specific to list them sanely in this context.
2015-11-04split up help messages for simpler reuseDavid Kalnischkies
That is one huge commit with busy work only: Help messages used to be one big translateable string, which is a pain for translators and hard to reuse for us. This change there 'explodes' this single string into new string for each documented string trying hard to split up the translated messages as well. This actually restores many translations as previously adding a single command made all of the bug message fuzzy. The splitup also highlighted that its easy to forget a line, duplicate one and similar stuff. Git-Dch: Ignore
2015-11-04revamp apt(8) to refer more instead of duplicatingDavid Kalnischkies
As apt is targetted at users, lets try to make apt(8) for users as well by giving only a quick overview about what is available and some pointers for how to find a whole lot more details.
2015-11-04add binary-specific options via Binary scopeDavid Kalnischkies
Especially with apt now, it can be useful to set an option only for apt and not for apt-get. Using a binary-specific subtree which is merged into the root seems like a simple enough trick to achieve this.
2015-11-04refer to apt-secure(8) in unsecure repositories warningDavid Kalnischkies
The manpage is also slightly updated to work better as a central hub to push people from all angles into the right directions without writting a book disguised as an error message.
2015-11-04revert accidental removal of documentation for trusted option in sources.listDavid Kalnischkies
In b0d408547734100bf86781615f546487ecf390d9 I accidently removed the documentation for Trusted and replaced it with Signed-By instead of adding it. Git-Dch: Ignore
2015-11-04allow all dpkg selections to be set via apt-mark and libaptDavid Kalnischkies
As we have support for 'hold', we need support for undoing a hold which in effect means that we implemented most other states as well, just that they weren't exposed in the interface directly so far.
2015-10-20releasing 1.1~exp141.1_exp14Michael Vogt
2015-10-05Run "./prepare-release pre-export"Michael Vogt
Git-dch: ignore
2015-09-22Use --add-location=file for po/ and doc/poMichael Vogt
This avoids churn in the po/pot files when just the location line number in the source code changes. Git-Dch: ignore
2015-09-14add by-hash sources.list option and document all of by-hashDavid Kalnischkies
This changes the semantics of the option (which is renamed too) to be a yes/no value with the special additional value "force" as this allows by-hash to be disabled even if the repository indicates it would be supported and is more in line with our other yes/no options like pdiff which disable themselves if no support can be detected. The feature wasn't documented so far and hasn't reached a (un)stable release yet, so changing it without trying too hard to keep compatibility seems okay.
2015-09-14add --sha512 option + documentation for apt-ftparchiveDavid Kalnischkies
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.
2015-09-12Sort pot input filesMichael Vogt
Git-Dch: ignore