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- This is a list of features that are scheduled to be removed from dpkg.
-
-
- What: 822-date (program)
- Status: obsolete
- When: lenny+1
- Warning: program
- Why:
- Should switch to use 'date -R'.
-
- What: cleanup-info (program)
- Status: deprecated
- When: lenny
- Warning: none
- Why:
- This program was needed long time ago to fixup broken info dir files
- generated by buggy install-info programs. Should not be needed anymore.
-
- What: Source-Version (substvar)
- Status: obsolete
- When: lenny+1
- Warning: lintian (substvar-source-version-is-deprecated)
- Why:
- The semantics of Source-Version are missleading when applied to binNMUs.
- Should switch to use binary:Version or source:Version substvars.
-
- What: Revision, Package-Revision, Package_Revision, Class, Recommended,
- Optional (field)
- Status: obsolete
- When: lenny+1
- Warning: program
- Why:
- These fields have been superseded by either other fields with better names
- or values in other fields.
-
- What: recommended, contrib, base (priority)
- Status: obsolete
- When: lenny+1
- Warning: none
- Why:
- These priorities have been superseded by either other fields or values in
- other fields.
-
- What: --force-auto-install (dpkg option)
- Status: obsolete
- When: lenny+1
- Warning: program
-
- What: --largemem, --smallmem (dpkg option)
- Status: obsolete
- When: lenny+1
- Warning: program
-
- What: --no-auto-select (dpkg option)
- Status: deprecated
- When: lenny+1
- Warning: none
-
- What: -u, --udeb (dpkg-scanpackages option)
- Status: deprecated
- When: lenny+1
- Warning: none
- Why:
- This option has been superseded by -tudeb.
-
- What: substvars support in dpkg-source and dpkg-genchanges
- Status: deprecated
- When: lenny+1
- Warning: program
- Why:
- substvars do not make sense during generation of .dsc and .changes files.
- This also means that it won't be possible anymore to override the Format
- field output by dpkg-genchanges.
-
- What: support of custom changelog parsers understanding only -v
- Status: obsolete
- When: lenny+1
- Warning: none
- Why:
- The debian changelog parser has been enhanced. It supports new options
- that enable more fine-grained retrieval of information. Those new options
- will be used by scripts (like dpkg-genchanges).
- .
- Custom changelog parsers must be updated to support the new API (see
- dpkg-parsechangelog(1) and README.api).
-
- What: support of PGP
- Status: deprecated
- When: lenny+1
- Warning: program
- Why:
- PGP is not part of Debian and GnuPG has been the standard tool for digital
- signatures for several years already. Supporting only GnuPG enables us to
- rely on some of its features.
-