From 21cb4a9e513ccb6f376fbcaf67957c4851cbbe32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julian Andres Klode Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 22:01:54 +0100 Subject: 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. --- debian/NEWS | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) (limited to 'debian/NEWS') diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS index 46c1fcb16..8615cbf4e 100644 --- a/debian/NEWS +++ b/debian/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,16 @@ +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 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 -- cgit v1.2.3