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[12/8/2005] Version 0.4.1 "Divers Alarums" - New features: * Assertion failures should print the failing assertion after shutting down curses rather than before. * The --purge-unused option is now provided as a synonym for -o Aptitude::Purge-Unused=true. * aptitude will now support ddtp if it is compiled against a version of apt that supports ddtp. * Setting the Aptitude::Cmdline::Resolver-Dump option to a filename will cause the command-line mode of the program to dump a snapshot of the resolver state to that file before attempting to resolve dependencies. * Setting the Aptitude::GC-Debug option will cause the garbage collector to print voluminous debugging information as it searches for unused packages. - Bug fixes: * Eliminate two deadlocks caused by the background resolver thread trying to wait for itself. (Closes: #340067, #342319) * Never select a version that was removed but not purged and is no longer available as a candidate version. (Closes: #340385) * Eliminate a corner case where the resolver could produce solutions that were supersets of previous solutions. * If an EOF is encountered while waiting for a media-change from the command-line, signal media change failure instead of aborting. * Don't ever use the minibuffer to display the list of packages adjusted by the resolver (Closes: #341292). * If the menu bar is auto-hidden, don't automatically unhide it when the user clicks in the first row of the display; instead, pass the clicks to the sub-widget. (Closes: #341475) * Enable colors on terminals where COLOR_PAIRS < COLORS*COLORS but COLOR_PAIRS >= 64. * Honor -y when the resolver runs out of time at the command-line. * Make "cancel" at the "download complete" dialog actually cancel. * Fix a portability bug due to cross-platform variation in the members of sigaction (Closes: #337536) * Fix how keybindings are parsed: keybinding names are now case-insensitive and single-character keybindings are parsed correctly. (Closes: #339131) * Add spaces after various minibuffer prompts. * Add a link from the search patterns documentation to the command-line reference. * When saving the package states, properly handle the case in which the state file didn't previously exist. (Closes: #337869) * Don't segfault when the user updates the package lists while a solution examiner is open. (Closes: #338441) * Trust any package version for which at least one source is trusted (Closes: #337982). * Work around apt bug #339533 to avoid an aptitude segfault. (Closes: #339648) * Fixed the assertion failure message printed when an inconsistency is detected because a supposedly broken dependency isn't broken (it was incorrect). * If a --schedule-only operation fails, print any errors that occurred before exiting. * Document the new backslash behavior in help.txt. (Closes: #337810) * Document that "default" can be used as a background color. * Correct the names of the problem-resolver control knobs in the documentation. - Translation updates: * Chinese (Simplified) (Closes: #339140) * Dutch (Closes: #337629) * Italian * Galacian (Closes: #337656) * Lithuanian (Closes: #341051) * Portuguese (Closes: #339828) * Slovak (Closes: #338527) * Swedish (Closes: #334520, #337725, #339820) * Turkish (Closes: #339943) * Vietnamese (Closes: #341924) [11/4/2005] Version 0.4.0 "Aptitude Below Zero" - New features: * The primary binding of the menu toggle command is now Control-t instead of f10. All old bindings still work, but this means that the binding displayed at the top of the screen will work on all terminals. (Closes: #147862, #335034) * By default, the solution that reverts all user actions is discarded entirely. * The "changelog", "download", and "show" command-line actions recognize "-t <archive>" and handle it by acting as if "/<archive>" had been appended to each argument of the command. (Closes: #334096) * When "show" cannot locate a package by name, it now exits with an error instead of exiting with status 0. * When the user requests a particular version of a package, "show" will display only that version, even if the verbosity level would normally cause all versions to be displayed. * Highlight stuff that looks like bullets when viewing a changelog file. * Doxyfile.in is distributed, so the doxygen documentation should be buildable from the distributed tarball. * Added a Keep-Recommends option that is analogous to Keep-Suggests: it doesn't cause recommendations to be automatically installed, but it does cause them to be held on the system by the garbage collector if they were automatically installed. - Bug fixes: * Forward and reverse dependency lists are sorted by name and version. * Made page-up in a list of packages properly trigger the update of all connected information. * "search" now completely ignores fake packages (Closes: #337407). * The code to parse a bullet list in a description now knows how to handle any number of spaces following a bullet (including zero). (Closes: #337344) * Don't hide the preview screen when downloading stuff other than packages. (Closes: #334343) * Deal sanely with changelogs and other formatted text that contains newlines or tabs. * More real and potential UTF-8 display problems fixed. (Closes: #317119) * Fix some anomalies in the display of the menu bar's left/right arrows. * Corrected how the sigc++ version against which the program was compiled is reported. * Added "install" to the manpage synopsis. (Closes: #336584) * Cleaned up some parts of the resolver interface and wrote top-level API documentation for it. - Translation updates: * sv is now included in ALL_LINGUAS. * Translation updates: - Chinese (Simplified) (Closes: #335290) - Danish (Closes: #335880) - Finnish - French (Closes: #336261) - Romanian (Closes: #335680, #325749) - Russian (Closes: #336261, #336420) [10/14/2005] Version 0.3.5.1 "Slantwise Cacophany" - Bug fixes: * Corrected several trivial but fatal bugs in the build and install system. * Document 'aptitude reinstall' in the --help output. (Closes: #333872) - Translation updates: * Add a Swedish translation of help.txt. (Closes: #333918) [10/13/2005] Version 0.3.5 "Yoink" Upstream aptitude development is now stored in darcs. See the documentation for additional details. - New features: * Redesigned how versions are handled in the pattern matching language. The set of versions matched against is more uniform (typically all the versions of a package). This set is narrowed at appropriate times; for instance, reverse dependency matchers will only pass those versions that assert a dependency into their subexpression. You can manually narrow the set by selecting versions with ~S, and manually widen it by using ~W. * Forward and reverse dependency matchers can be restricted to only broken dependencies. * The version matcher (~V) has support for matching the current, target, or candidate version of a package (in addition to matching a regexp against the version number). * Add a canned package view that only displays packages which are targets of unsatisfied Recommends. * Sort reverse and forward dependencies by package name and version number. * In the command-line preview, display {p} next to packages that are being purged. * More command-line compatibility with apt-get for -q and --quiet. (Closes: #217477) * Only override $HOME with getpwuid if $HOME/.aptitude does not exist. NOTE: this doesn't work right now with the auto-su-to-root behavior, because that resets $HOME. You have been warned. * Add a sorting policy that sorts packages by version number. - Bug fixes: * The problem resolver will no longer try to install versions of packages that don't actually exist. In particular, it won't try to install packages that were removed but not purged, so their configuration files and metadata stayed on the system. * Eliminated a reference-to-freed-memory segfault caused by passing unsafe references to widgets around. (Closes: #331400) * Don't crash when the user asks to see the changelog of a non-installed package. (Closes: #331245) * Don't crash when the cache is closed while a changelog is being downloaded (for instance, if a changelog is downloaded while packages are being installed). * Encode match results as std::strings instead of const char *s, as some of the buffers are destroyed before the get_match routine exits. * Don't reopen the cache after a download unless it's necessary. (Closes: #332708) * Version items are now styled in the same way as package items. * Explicitly keep the search dialog alive while its Ok handler is executing, so that the "actually search" signal isn't disconnected too soon and searching by clicking Ok works. (Closes: #332179) Similar fixes to other stock dialogs. * Use the right encoding when converting the name of a dependency type to a wide character string. (Closes: #331199) * Write out the descriptions of solution elements using wide-character functions. * Ensure that string inputs in the configuration dialogs are always visible. (Closes: #331200) * Read the debtags vocabulary file from /var/lib instead of /usr/share, and hint that the user should install debtags to make the error go away. (Closes: #331408) * Fix the parser of the backwards-compatibility filter grouping policy. (Closes: #331404) * Really bypass the authentication prompt if Ignore-Trust-Violations is true. (Closes: #332883) * Don't duplicate packages in the filter policy. * Accept archive or version specifiers with installauto (+M) as well as install. * Document ~t. - Translation updates: * Basque (Closes: #275704) * Czech * French * Swedish (Closes: #333267) [9/30/2005] Version 0.3.4 "Up The Airy Mountain" - New features: * The solution examiner is now a view coequal with package trees and other views rather than a pop-up dialog box. * From the solution examiner, you can select individual actions within a solution and approve or reject them to influence the future course of the resolver; you can also access quite a bit more information, such as explanations of why actions were included in the solution and alternatives to the actions. * Rebalanced the default resolver weights to focus it more on generating a solution quickly and less on generating a "good" solution. * The problem resolver now understands about Recommendations. It will try to solve Recommendations that are currently satisfied or that are only present in a newly installed version of a package and not the current version, but it can also leave them broken (with a penalty to the resulting solution). * The visual mode of the program is now threaded: in particular, long-running tasks such as downloading packages and resolving dependencies are run in the background and no longer cause the interface to become nonresponsive. This also eliminates the need to use recursive main loops, and hence this Closes: #136973. * Holds are now implicitly cancelled by the "Keep" command in visual mode (but not from the command line). (Closes: #326949) * Search patterns now treat whitespace as a term separator (but whitespace between a pattern code and its argument is ignored). To search for literal whitespace, use double quotes or tilde-escaping. * You can now search for text in internal text pagers (for instance, when viewing a package's Changelog). * A generic grouping policy based on search patterns is available. (Closes: #156065) * Selecting a package version other than the current version and the default candidate version explicitly is now sticky. (Closes: #158771) * Debtags support is available: tags are shown after a package's description, you can search for them (~G), and a tag-based grouping policy is available. (Closes: #243830) * More predefined package views are available: a flat view and a view based on debtags. * The command-line now has "keep" and "keep-all" commands (the latter cancels all sticky actions that are queued on packages). (Closes: #312923) * From the command-line, changelogs can be downloaded by source package name in addition to the binary package name. * The command-line option "--schedule-only" will write the commands you ask for to the database and then exit without downloading, installing, or removing anything. (Closes: #312249) * You can search both backwards and forwards (the backslash key has been changed from 'repeat last search' to 'search backwards'). (Closes: #323239) * You can repeat searches in all pagers and dialogs. (Closes: #270699) * You can now find downgraded packages using "~adowngrade". * aptitude now works with the apt status reporting patch from Michael Vogt. * The rather useless "missing" grouping policy is no longer necessary and has been deprecated, although it is still recognized by the parser for backwards-compatibility. * You can now access the default background color under the name "default" when altering styles. The default foreground color is unavailable; for technical reasons it's impossible for aptitude to support both at once in a standard X terminal. However, I believe that most of the requests for this feature stemmed from an interest in terminals with transparent backgrounds; if you set the default widget style to "bg default;", aptitude should work reasonably well with transparent terminals now. (Closes: #161872) * Every combination of the package state and the highlighted status of the package now has a separate style, which should allow a great deal more flexibility for people who don't like the defaults. * aptitude now automatically keeps a single backup of the pkgstates file, in the same manner as dpkg. (Closes: #316460) * Warn the user once when they modify the cache while the program is in read-only mode. (Closes: #175408) * The resolver keystroke hints at the bottom of the screen dim out when they're not available. * Menus and menu bars behave more gracefully on small terminals: menus can be scrolled up and down, and menu bars can be scrolled left and right. * You can automatically purge packages which are removed because they are unused. This option is dangerous and it is recommended that you leave it off. (Closes: #275150) * Timestamps in the aptitude log file include the time zone. (Closes: #318501) * If libparse-debianchangelog-perl is installed, aptitude will parse changelogs and highlight newer versions of the package. (Closes: #290692) - Bug fixes: * aptitude no longer goes bonkers when you suspend and resume it. (Closes: #137311, #169479) * Use the password database instead of $HOME to find the user's home directory; this will fix the mode 0700 root-owned files that people were seeing. (Closes: #272429, #274216, #285334) * Temporary files and directories are created in /tmp instead of cluttering ~/.aptitude/.tmp. (Closes: #146485, #245348) * If becoming root fails, re-load the file containing the current selections so that they don't get lost. (Closes: #281232) * ~akeep now matches any package that no action will be performed on, including packages that are not installed. * The apt error dialog now properly appears every time errors occur. * Fix several UTF-8 related display bugs. (Closes: #317115) * The cursor is now placed correctly again. * Get the width of the screen right in a number of places when running in command-line mode. (Closes: #230187) * Set packages that were to be removed because they were unused back to manual mode when the user keeps them at their current version. (Closes: #278490) * Various bugs in the resolver fixed. * Fix a crash that occurred when aptitude got EOF on standard input; the program now just aborts. (Closes: #318749) * Fix a redundancy in some text at the command line. (Closes: #318396) * Don't segfault if errors are encountered in the initialization routines. (Closes: #309445) * When there are currently broken packages, print an explanation of why the command-line upgrade is aborting instead of just silently terminating. (Closes: #316027) * Fix the return value of 'aptitude clean'. (Closes: #274098) * Terminate abnormally if the user tries to show a non-existant package or if other errors come up. (Closes: #301291) * The startup progress bar no longer hangs around too long. * The message displayed when the installation procedure encounters errors is somewhat more levelheaded. (Closes: #230188) * Add support for making the command-line mode "quiet" (option -q). (Closes: #217477) * If -s is passed on the command-line, the cache will always be opened read-only, even if the user is root. * Hold onto the apt lock while running reportbug, so we don't have to reload the cache and discard user selections. (Closes: #304748) * Don't use terminal tricks to display continually updating progress indicator if stdin is not a tty. (Closes: #276767) * For some years now, aptitude has not freed memory belonging to widget objects. This is now fixed, and an explicit memory management model for widgets based on reference-counting has been hammered out. * Fix the manpage's SEE ALSO entry for the reference manual. (Closes: #265723) * Apply typo fixes for the documentation. (Closes: #268916) * Explicitly document that ~a only matches the current state of a package. (Closes: #311290) * Delete some unnecessary text that both lacks a trailing newline and is rather rude. (Closes: #295924) - Translation updates: * Czech (Closes: #330014) * Danish (Closes: #317824) * Finnish (Closes: #316225) * French (Closes: #318906) * Romanian (Closes: #318947) * Vietnamese (Closes: #316994, #319702, #322276) - Internal changes: * Migrated all build scripts to automake-1.9 and the latest gettext version. * Restructured the resolver code to be far more legible. * Much optimization of the problem resolver, including: - Detect logical conflicts to avoid going down the same blind alleys over and over. - Use shared-memory data structures to greatly decrease virtual memory usage (memory usage in test cases that used to take hundreds of megabytes is now negligible). - When ordering solutions, use the score first (since it's essentially a hash of the information in the solution), and only examine the incoming solutions in their entirety if they have the same score. * Split the horrible download code into a much more pleasant group of "download process" classes with an interface that's generic enough to allow the frontend to implement a general "execute download process" function. The new download classes were pushed down into the generic level. * Split generic/ into generic/util and generic/apt. * Restructured the way grouping policies and matchers are parsed to allow them to work together without unpleasant surprises. * A test suite (based on cppunit) is now available; most of the tests are currently of backend code. * Most dynamic casting in menu_tree was eliminated; now it just checks whether the selected item implements the menu_redirect interface and proxies for it (as far as the package and solution item menu commands go) if so. * Exceptions can now dynamically generate a program backtrace -- however, in order for this to be useful, you have to have many more symbols compiled into the program (in tests, this DOUBLED the final executable size). To get a binary that will generate a backtrace for uncaught exceptions, compile with --enable-dynamic-backtrace. [7/4/2005] Version 0.3.3 "Universal Text Format Ate My Package Manager" - New features: * Full support for UTF-8 and other wide character locales. Anything that doesn't work (aside from bug #316663 in curses) is a bug. Some languages might lack full support, as I'm releasing this before the translators have time to catch up! * Colors and text styles are now selected in a much more flexible way. Each visual can independently alter or override each setting of its surrounding text. Foreground and background colors can be set independently. - Translation updates: * Chinese (Simplified) (Closes: #314330) * Chinese (Traditional) (Closes: #311587) * Czech (Closes: #314328) * Dutch (Closes: #315376, #316279) * Finnish (Closes: #312311, #313450) * German (Closes: #313663) * Lithuanian (Closes: #314643) * Norwegian Bokmal (Closes: #313459) * Norwegian nynorsk (Closes: #315988) * Polish (Closes: #315338) * Portuguese (Closes: #315486) * Russian (Closes: #313619) * Slovak (Closes: #309824) * Spanish (Closes: #313412) * Vietnamese (Closes: #313321) - Bug fixes: * Fix a case where different packages would be selected on startup than on shutdown. (Closes: #315359) * Fix several longstanding coding errors that caused the progress bar to disappear/freeze while the program was starting up. * Don't crash when trying to display information about packages with no Archive. (Closes: #312533) * Allow the user to cancel a media change. (Closes: #315885) * Be more explicit in warning the user that they are in read-only mode. (Closes: #313417) * Typo fix in cmdline_prompt (Closes: #313322) * Adjusted the input polling frequency in the download code; the program should feel a bit more responsive while it's downloading. [5/1/2005] Version 0.3.2 "Eat cold logic, feeble dependency problem!" - New features: * Finally tossed the APT problem resolver over the side. aptitude now has its own problem resolver, with (among other things) the following features: - It's restartable and nondestructive -- meaning that if you don't like its suggestion, you can ask it to find another one. - It understands how to resolve dependencies by installing non-default package versions. For instance, it can figure out that to install aptitude from experimental, you need to also install apt and synaptic from experimental (if unstable's synaptic is installed). - The priorities of the resolver are fully configurable; see the configuration file section of the reference manual. - It's generic: in theory you could apply the code to many package systems, including some that are not APT-based. - It has a formal model of dependencies underlying it; see src/generic/problemresolver/model.tex (although not all my notes have migrated into the LaTeX source yet; this will be fixed in the future). * Implemented my proposed description formatting extensions of http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/03/msg02770.html -- aptitude now detects and appropriately formats most bulleted lists in package descriptions. * From the confirmation prompt (and now the resolver prompt) of the command-line mode, you can now additionally keep packages back (without setting a hold), mark packages as automatic or manual, and simultaneously install a package and mark it as manual. * ~ahold now matches only packages that have a "sticky" hold set. ~akeep will find packages upon which no action is being taken. To get the old behavior of ~ahold, use ~U~akeep. (Closes: #216730) * A brief summary of the currently-open views now appears at the top of the screen when multiple views are open. * Merged command-line support for apt-secure from 0.2.15.9. - Bugfixes: * Don't discard messages about how to resolve a problem with loading the cache file. In particular, the dialog box that you get if dpkg was interrupted should make a lot more sense. (Closes: #160418) * Actually process the message about failed downloads using fragf. (Closes: #298713) * Fix the "help crashes" bug. (Closes: #293935, plus all the other bugs reported by people who don't check the BTS first) * Hard-wrap, don't clip, long literally formatted lines (in accordance with Policy). * Text in a number of places is now automatically formatted instead of having hard-wired line wrapping. * Fixed the formatting and size calculation of fragments even in the presence of indentation. * Made the description widget (and other similar widgets) actually cache its formatting, rather than recalculating it every time the screen is redrawn. * Centralized the detection of the terminal width when running in command-line mode; previously, some commands would properly wrap text, but others wouldn't. * Don't abort, just print a warning if the user passes -s in interactive mode. (Closes: #243192) * Fixed an ugly problem with the docbook documentation -- instead of using the DTD on the user's system, it was loading it off the net (merged from the stable branch). * Correct the documentation of Delete-Unused (merged from stable). [1/10/2005] "Ow, my thesis! That's funny, it didn't hurt that time..." - Bugfixes: * (sort of) fixed a bug which caused aptitude to want to remove stuff installed with another package manager. In order to trigger this, you would have to remove the package with aptitude, quit aptitude without installing or removing anything else, then install the package in the other package manager before running aptitude again. The caveat on the fix is that if you ^C aptitude between removing the package and reloading the cache, you can still get bitten. A more proper fix may be included in a future aptitude version. - New features: * By default, aptitude will only pause after a download if errors occured. Both of the old settings (always/never pause) are still available. * "autoclean" will tell you how much stuff it cleaned up. For technical reasons, "clean" cannot easily produce the same information. - Internal changes: * Ported aptitude to libsigc++ 2.0. * Various bits of text are now displayed as fragments instead of labels, so they get properly word-wrapped and so on. This work is ongoing and has revealed some structural weaknesses in fragments that need to be fixed before entrenching them too much. [12/21/2004] Version 0.3.0 "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow" This is the first release of a new development branch, forked from 0.2.15.8. - Bugfixes: * The buttons in the search dialog are properly centered. * Internal errors that are generated because of bad formatting characters are less cryptic. - New features: * Support for apt 0.6's security features: aptitude will flag packages that are untrusted, and will warn you if you try to install an untrusted package or upgrade from a trusted to an untrusted version. The warnings are currently quite obtrusive and strongly worded, and cannot be turned off. - Internal changes: * Completely redesigned widget layout to better accomodate widgets whose width and height are interrelated. The new system completely allocates widths before allocating heights, allowing stuff like word-wrapped text to be handled sanely. - Translation updates: * Arabic [NEW] * Basque (Closes: #275704) * Brazilian Portuguese (Closes: #275220) * Chinese (Simplified) * Chinese (Traditional) (Closes: #274268) * Czech * Danish * Finnish * French [now includes translated manual] (Closes: #274953) * German (Closes: #283546) * Hebrew [NEW] (Closes: #275266) * Lithuanian (Closes: #280049) * Norwegian Bokmal * Polish (Closes: #265481) * Romanian (Closes: #281531) * Slovak (Closes: #279559) * Spanish * Turkish (Closes: #280009) [3/26/2004] Version 0.2.15.9 "I see you see we all see C see sea" - Bugfixes: * Correct the English documentation of Aptitude::Delete-Unused; its description of this option's behavior was exactly the reverse of what actually happens! * Fix a trivial typo that caused an unsightly disfigurement of the Search dialog. - Backports from aptitude 0.3.x: * aptitude now compiles cleanly against APT 0.6, with full support for package trust. - Translation updates: * Arabic * Basque (Closes: #275704) * Chinese, Simplified * Chinese, Traditional (Closes: #274268, #290284) * Czech * Danish * Dutch (Closes: #288815) * Finnish * French (Closes: #274953) Includes a new user's manual. * German (Closes: #283546, #293127) * Hebrew (Closes: #275266) * Lithuanian (Closes: #280049) * Norwegian Bokmal * Polish (Closes: #265481) * Portuguese, Brazilian (Closes: #275220) * Romanian (Closes: #281531) * Slovak (Closes: #279559) * Spanish [9/28/2004] Version 0.2.15.8 "UTF-what?" - Bugfixes: * Patch from Konstantinos Margaritis to "fix" the UTF-8 problem with a sledgehammer: if aptitude sees UTF-8 in the locale, it will set the locale to C instead. * Under "Suggested packages", only show packages that something suggests. (previously, other relationships -- such as Replaces or Conflicts -- were causing stuff to end up there). (Closes: #270667) * Belatedly apply a very old patch to improve saving Minesweeper games and to add some sanity-checks to Minesweeper. (Closes: #179533) - Translation updates: * French (Closes: #272824) * Italian (Closes: #265243) * Japanese (Closes: #272454) * Russian [9/17/2004] Version 0.2.15.7 "Kerplop" - Bugfixes: * Use the candidate version to look for stuff to install; this makes installation via patterns work better. * Parse priority strings up-front, and accept either an English string or the string in the current locale. * Fixed a segfault that occured if the %r escape was used. * Fix several potential (unreported, perhaps un-triggerable) segfaults in the table code. * Various documentation fixes (Closes: #269102, #269100). - Translation updates: * Brazilian (Closes: #271411) * Catalan (Closes: #270917) * Finnish (Closes: #263313) * French (Closes: #270713) * Greek (Closes: #265006) * Italian (Closes: #268263) * Japanese (Closes: #264867) * Norwegian (Closes: #269976) * Russian (Closes: #266294) * Spanish (Closes: #269311) [8/6/2004] Version 0.2.15.6 "Brrrrrrr" - Bugfixes: * When displaying the size change in a single version, use '+' for increases and '-' for decreases rather than the other way around. * "make install" installs localized manpages in $mandir now (thanks to Sebastian Kapfer for pointing out that this wasn't happening) - Translation updates: * Czech (Debian bug #262524) * Danish (Debian bug #262129) * Dutch (Debian bug #262000) * Finnish (Debian bug #263313) * German (Debian bug #262534) * Italian (Debian bug #261819) * Portuguese (Debian bug #261502) [7/25/2004] Version 0.2.15.5 "Is it just me, or is it freezing in here?" - New features and bugfixes: - 'aptitude moo' no longer insults the user, even under extreme provocation. - It is now possible to log to multiple destinations. (Debian bug #259714) - A format code (%i) has been added to display policy information about package versions (ie, the priority to which they are pinned). (Debian bug #240423) - An option has been added which disables some of the sanity checks performed prior to installing packages: the program will proceed to the preview screen if any packages are upgradable, even if they aren't being upgraded. (Debian bug #260590) - Undoing "forget new" works again. - Scrolling in pagers scrolls by the correct amount now. (Debian bug #260713) - You can once again enter an empty limit string to reset the limit. (Debian bug #260244) - Changed (completely useless at the moment) creation of a pthreads mutex to compile on FreeBSD. - Translation updates: - Brazilian (Debian bug #260953) - Catalan (Debian bug #261095) - Czech (Debian bug #259966) - Dutch (Debian bug #260632) - Italian (Debian bug #261017) - Greek (Debian bug #261029) - Portuguese (Debian bug #261425) [7/15/2004] Version 0.2.15.4 "Flying Space Cucumber" - New features: * Recommended (but not installed) packages are shown in both previews now. * Suggests-Important is back as a synonym for Keep-Suggests. This should smooth out the transition for people who were using it. (Debian bug #259387) * Changelogs can be viewed from the command-line. * When downloading a package from the command-line, you can select the version to be downloaded. (Debian bug #160145) * Added a menu/keyboard command to search for the next broken package. (Debian bug #162474) * Extended the package menu with options to manipulate a package's automatic flag, view its information, or view its changelog. * Dependency patterns can now match on any dependency field; see the documentation for details. - Bugfixes: * Several potential and actual memory leaks in the command-line code were fixed. * The command-line mode now complains loudly in some places where it used to fail silently. [7/13/2004] Version 0.2.15.3 "Release Roulette" - New features: * When displaying aptitude's explanations about dependency situations, packages that are unavailable will be marked as such. * Some messages from the command-line mode (eg, about packages that are already installed/removed) are now suppressed unless you pass -v on the command-line. - Bugfixes: * Document the Yes/No commands. * Return the newest version available from visible_version(), which should make changelog viewing and a few other things work in a less obscure fashion. * Correctly initialize the menu autohide setting (Debian bug #258688). * Suppress self-conflicts more vigorously (Debian bug #258533). * Fixed a number of bugs related to undos; they should work much better now (in particular, undoing an upgrade command will work reliably). * The tracking of automatic packages is somewhat smarter about versions: if upgrading a package causes it to become unused, it will be held back; if a package is being removed because it is unused and something depending on its current version is installed, the package will be held even if it could be upgraded. (say that five times fast!) Basically, aptitude won't randomly remove packages that you try to upgrade because they're suddenly "unused"; instead, it will refuse to upgrade them. - Translation/i18n updates: * Miroslav Kure heroically translated the entire DocBook manual into Czech, along with general updates to the Czech translation. * The keybindings for Yes and No are now translatable (Debian bug #258409). * Split the English manpage into a separate XML file (Debian bug #259089). * Brazilian translation update (Debian bug #258667). * Greek translation update (Debian bug #258805). * French translation update. * Spanish translation update from Rubes Porras (Debian bug #258243). [7/7/2004] Version 0.2.15.2 "Configure this!" - New features: * Added a configuration option Aptitude::Keep-Suggests. This will cause automatically installed packages to stay on the system if any installed package even Suggests them. * Added a command-line argument -o; this behaves in the same way as the apt-get -o command-line argument. - Bugfixes: * Fixed a very old bug in configuration handling. This version of aptitude will only save configuration options that you have modified in your personal file. (this includes options that you changed and re-set to their default values) This means that future changes in aptitude's default settings will be picked up by most people; right now you will only see changes to the defaults if you've never used an Options dialog. You may want to revert your options to the defaults to take advantage of this feature. (Debian bug #175409) * Fixed the manpage synopsis: it said forbid-upgrade instead of forbid-version. (Debian bug #257901) * Removed an accent that accidentally crept into an image filename in the documentation. * In the Vertical-Split theme, version numbers are hidden by default (there isn't room for them on a standard terminal) - Translation updates: * Updated Finish translations (Debian bug #257902) * Updated Italian translations (Debian bug #257710) [7/4/2004] Version 0.2.15.1 "Obligatory July 4th reference" - Bugfixes: * Fix a segfault that occured in certain (undetermined) circumstances: a codepath that never ran on my computer would inevitably dereference NULL. * Include all the screen-shot images. [7/1/2004] Version 0.2.15 "Daniel's Adventures in the Land of DocBook" - New features: * aptitude now has a "proper" manual, or at least the first iteration of one. It weighs in at ~7000 lines of DocBook (which is less impressive than it sounds, since most lines of DocBook are fluff) and generates HTML pages, text documentation, and a manpage from a single source. * You can now keep a package at its current version without setting a sticky hold by pressing ':'. * A new %-escape for the display format, %Z, has been added. It displays the change in disk usage due to an individual package (or version); the default package format uses it. * Several new menus added: you can now change a package's state or search for a package from the menu. * A convenient keybinding for reporting a bug has been added. * Matchers for reverse dependencies are now much more powerful; matchers for reverse and forward provides are available. * Passing -v to an installation command will display packages that are suggested and won't be installed. * You can now retrieve information about a package from the command-line mode's prompt. * "aptitude show" will display a package's Essential flag. * The new "--visual-preview" command-line option uses the visual mode to handle previews and downloads for command-line actions. (Debian bug #253335) * aptitude should now display translated task descriptions; thanks to Denis Barbier. (Debian bug #203725) - Bugfixes: * aptitude now handles limits that match no packages more gracefully. * All traces of Suggests-Important were removed. (Debian bug #245410) * aptitude should compile with g++ 3.4 now. * aptitude now looks for unused packages on startup, so the old behavior (where some package states would be illogical and "snap" to the correct values as soon as you did anything) no longer occurs. * Handling of automatic/manual packages was tweaked in a few other ways; handling of automatically changed packages was also tweaked. * Completely disabled the use of the severely broken non-hierarchical view; the categorical browser just uses a hierarchical display now. (Debian bugs #120978, #144079, #144083, #151437, #242397) * Undoing the "forbid upgrade" command should work in all cases now. * Removed trailing periods from all menu item descriptions. (Debian bug #244676) * Fixed compilation on all 5 existing ia64 systems (Debian bug #243932). * If the user tries to remove an essential package but then cancels the removal, aptitude no longer displays an ominous warning about removing essential packages. (Debian bug #254422) * Fixed the display of ORed dependencies in "aptitude show". (Debian bug #254740) * Menus are now sized more intelligently; text within menus is laid out slightly better. * When a very narrow terminal is being used, menus should be displayed a bit more gracefully. * Fixed some bugs with rebinding keys. * Removed references to some obsolete (unused) keybindings and colors. * There is now a space between the current and candidate versions in the default display format. * Widget alignment within a row is now written as "top" and "bottom", not "left" and "right". * Reverting options affects the user's configuration file immediately. * "aptitude show" no longer performs a search unless the input contains a tilde. * Fixed the display of ORed dependencies when describing reasons for a package's state. (Debian bug #242663) * Improved the calculation of reasons for a package's state in the presence of virtual packages. (Debian bug #244817) - Translations: * Basque updates (Debian bug #244858) * Brizilian updates (Debian bug #242332) * Catalan updates (Debian bug #248764) * Czech updates (Debian bug #243728, #256326) * Danish updates (Debian bug #244539) * Dutch updates (Debian bug #249405) * German updates (Debian bug #233917, #255396) * Italian updates (Debian bug #244679) * Japanese updates (Debian bug #250023) * Lithuanian updates (Debian bug #242815) * Norwegian Bokmal translation added (Debian bug #250500, #252507) * Polish updates (Debian bug #248365) * Portugese updates (Debian bug #242309, #242372, #244850, #245699) * Russian added (Debian bug #250498) * Traditional Chinese translation added (Debian bug #244359) [4/03/2004] Version 0.2.14.1 "Spit and polish" Thanks to Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> for helping to triage the large pile of new and updated translations that appeared in this release. - Bugfixes and new features: * You can now forbid aptitude to automatically select a particular package version in an upgrade. This is mainly meant to make situations where a known-bad package is in unstable easier to handle. This functionality can be accessed via "F" in visual mode, or via the "forbid-version" command-line action. * Several more improvements to how autoinstalled packages are handled. In particular, you no longer have to chase the whole dependency tree if you de-select and then re-select a package with many autoinstalled dependencies. * Save whether packages are currently going to be upgraded in the state file (separately from whether the package should be installed at all). * If the preview screen will be empty, an explanatory dialog is displayed instead of a blank screen. If it looks like the user just forgot to press "U", suggest that. * Added a "reinstall" command-line action. (Debian bug #240225) * Added a "%t" formatting escape which displays the Archive of a package. In addition, "aptitude show" with verbosity>1 will display Archive information. (Debian bug #113354) * aptitude now supports the Key attribute of tasks (Debian bug #202781) * Fixed fetching ChangeLogs for classes with epoched versions and for non-free/contrib packages. (Debian bugs #237340, #233855) * Manpage proofreading and polishing from Danilo Piazzalunga. The reference to apt-get(8) has been corrected, and -t is documented. (Debian bugs #198891, #225053) * Fixed the names of download views in the View menu. (Debian bug #234041) * Use fragment-based layout instead of a vs_pager to display error messages. This means that they will wrap to the terminal width. (Debian bug #233923) * In the dependency ("d") and version ("v") lists, the description of the selected package is now visible by default. * Added section descriptions for the new archive sections. (Debian bug #233913) * Information on Provides is now included in the package information display and in "aptitude show". (Debian bug #121979) * Upgrades from security.debian.org should go in a separate top-level tree. (note: this is untested!) Also, re-ordered the toplevel trees. * Avoid destroying all visible widgets without quitting in some corner cases. (Debian bug #233783) * Removed some text that was being ignored anyway from the definition of the "miscellaneous" options dialog. I would have left it alone, but I think it could theoretically cause a problem. (Debian bug #233528) - Translation updates: * Brazilian Portuguese program translation update. (Debian bugs #237866, #199306) * Czech translation update. (Debian bug #240604) * Danish program translation update. (Debian bugs #230642, #234805) * Finnish program translation update. (Debian bug #238188) * French program translation update. (Debian bug #237501) * German program translation update. (Debian bug #233917) * Italian translation update. (Debian bug #239915) * Japanese program translation update. (Debian bug #235256) * Japanese translation update. (Debian bug #239242) * Lituanian translation update. (Debian bug #240683) * Norwegian Nynorsk translation update. (Debian bug #241104) * Partial Greek program translation added. (Debian bug #237808) * Partial Traditional Chinese program translation update. (Debian bug #230893) * Portuguese program translation. (Debian bug #239171) * Simplified Chinese translation update. (Debian bug #240739) * Spanish program translation update. (Debian bug #234537) [2/15/2004] Version 0.2.14 "I say a package, and you say ah pahckahge" - Bugfixes and new features: * Several command-line actions no longer crash when sources.list is missing or unreadable. In addition, if sources.list is present but unreadable, the visual frontend no longer crashes. (Debian bug #220732) * Fixed the detection of packages broken by conflicts. - Build system and internal changes: * Use AS_HELP_STRING to format help output from configure. - Translation updates * Italian updates (including a manpage translation) from Danilo Piazzalunga. * Fixed the translation of a format string in the Czech translation, which was causing segfaults. [2/13/2004] Version 0.2.13.9999.3 "Sisyphus Boulder Transportation and Delivery Engineers, Incorporated[tm]" - Bugfixes and new features: * In the information area for packages, a note about disk usage is printed (eg, "This package will be upgraded for <v1> to <v2>, using 1111kB of additional disk space.") Useful for sending bug reports to maintainers who accidentally upload unstripped binaries of their latest package version. * (undocumented) Experimental support for "filling" some text to the screen width; set Aptitude::UI::Fill-Text to True to use this. * An FAQ is now shipped with aptitude. I could only think of two questions, but I expect that more will be asked over time. - Build system and internal changes: * aptitude can now be compiled with g++ 3.0. g++ 2.95 is not supported due to at least one nasty bug in its STL which prevents aptitude from compiling. However, compiling with g++ 3.0 is enough to get a woody backport. - Translation updates: * Further Italian updates from Danilo Piazzalunga. * Spanish translation updates from Ruben Porras. [2/8/2004] Version 0.2.13.9999.2 "Polar Eclipse" - Bugfixes and new features: * Further enhancements to the new information display. It now shows any packages that are broken "because of" the currently selected package. In addition, the information is colorized (if the terminal supports it) to give a better idea of why dependencies are broken. * The information area will automatically switch to showing dependency information when a package breaks (press 'i' to switch back). * Fixed the changelog fetching code. (Debian bugs #103455, #208041) * aptitude no longer automatically holds packages in any circumstance; packages can be automatically kept back, but this doesn't persist the way hold does. (Debian bug #149161) * Added support for a "show" action on the command-line. * Invalid patterns no longer crash the search function. (Debian bug #214245) * Downgrades are now written to the log. (Debian bug #222583) Patch from Danilo Piazzalunga. * Scrollbars are now clickable. * Many minor changes not mentioned here; see ChangeLog for the gory details. - Internal changes: * Removed the HAVE_LIBAPT_PKG3 macro: this was intended to support compiling against old apt versions, but those versions are now ancient, and the program doesn't compile against them anyway. Even if you wanted to, aptitude relies on having a newer version of g++, while older apt versions won't even compile on modern g++ versiosn. - Translation-related changes: * zh_CN translation of help.txt added (also from Carlos). * pt_BR translation updated (Andre Luis Lopes). [2/3/2004] Version 0.2.13.9999 "It goes ZIP when it moves!" - Bugfixes and new features: * Don't abort loading the cache if apt generates warnings, such as the warning that a new source is available. This means that aptitude doesn't behave pathologically when you add a new line to sources.list. (Debian bug #143732) * Holding a package back or clearing a package's hold flag no longer affect the auto-install flag. (Debian bug #159582) * Expanded the "reason" information that can be shown about packages, and hooked it into the visual interface (the preview display will show this information automatically) * In previews, include a list of packages which are not installed but are suggested by packages that are being installed. * Entering the Preferences dialog for the first time no longer causes Suggested packages to be automatically installed. * Fix the way that options set via the dialogs are saved. (Debian bug #216268) * Added a scrollbar for the package description. * Added padding between the labels of options and their settings (in the * preference dialogs) * Removed the idempotency option from the dialogs. * Removed ~e: it was broken, inelegant, and superceded by regexps. (Debian bug #196447) * Additional minor bugfixes and editorial changes. - Build system and internal changes: * Now uses autoconf2.5. * Added a flexible system for formatting text (see fragment.cc). This system is now used to handle package descriptions, as well as a few other things. This is a very promising addition to aptitude's UI toolkit, and will almost certainly be used for additional features in the future. (for instance, it's about 80-90% of the way to being able to display simple hypertext) - Translation-related changes: * Missing i18n markings added to many strings. (Debian bug #230060) * Fixed the German translation of "limit" (Debian bug #214021) * Added a pt_BR translation, thanks to Gustavo Silva. (Debian bug #214116) * Added an Italian translation, thanks to Danilo Piazzalunga. * Updates to da.po from Morten Bo Johansen. * Added a Czech translation, thanks to Miroslav Kure. [6/9/2003] Version 0.2.13 "Pop goes the weasel" * Fixes a number of crashes due to mishandling of memory, spotted by Peter Lundkvist and Sami Liedes. (Debian bug #192073 and #109420) * Fix some crashes after updates, diagnosis by Peter Lundkvist. (Debian bug #109420) * No longer occasionally uses the first letter of the description as a flag character, diagnosis by Seneca Cunningham. (Debian bug #183462) * Translation updates to pt_BR by Andre Luis Lopes (Debian bug #195755) * Ported to libsigc++-1.2. Hopefully everything should work fine, but I can't guarantee that no problems remain. * Added an option to disable -Werror, needed until Debian's ncurses implementation is fixed. [2/10/2003] Version 0.2.12 "O Ye of Little Faith!" * Compiles with g++-3.2. (Debian bugs #166435, 177092, 177463, 178520, and maybe others) * Match strings can be POSIX regular expressions. (note that regular expression metacharacters which also have a special meaning for aptitude, such as "(", ")", and "!", must be tilde-escaped) (Debian bug #142450) * You can now see how much each package's installed size changed by by specifying -Z on the command-line. (only works for command-line upgrades so far) * You can search for text in the internal pagers. (Debian bug #144085) * Fixes to formatting code (Debian bug #163749) * When searching for packages from the command-line, you can now specify the order in which to sort results. * If no version of any package could possibly fulfill a dependency, it is textually flagged as "UNAVAILABLE". (Debian bug #157950) * The quick-help bar now indicates that "g" will also remove packages. (Debian bug #158966) * Disable saving/loading of packages' reinstall state, it's too annoying. (Debian bugs #167236, #121346) * Bold colors can be specified in the config file (although they will cause problems in some contexts). (Debian bug #168287) * "Minor" fix to the package gc: when marking packages, follow pre-depends. This fixes the bug which prevented installation of the new dpkg (this fix was previously introduced as a Debian revision, and closed bug #151701) * Startup should be faster in certain circumstances (eg: when many new packages are available, or many packages have changed state) * "aptitude install <task-name>" will install all packages in the task. (Debian bug #165624) * The resize bug in curses is fixed; re-enabled asynchronous resizing. * Equivalent to apt-get's "-t" command-line argument. (Debian bug #151583) NOTE: this is untested, since I don't have a machine where it would have any interesting effect, but I'm setting the same APT option as apt-get, so it should work. The effects on the interactive mode of the program are unknown at this time, use with caution! * Translation updates to: - da.po by Morten Bo Johansen <mojo@image.dk> (Debian bug #171903) - pt_BR.po by Andre Luis Lopes <andrelop@ig.com.br> (Debian bug #162512) In addition, changed the content-type of fr.po (Debian bug #156616) * The information in the log file about how much the size changed by should be much more legible now. (Debian bug #154924) * Fixed an integer overflow when downloading really humongous packages. (Debian bug #171903) * Documented "M" and "m" in the online help (Debian bugs #160936, #154000) * Expunged all references to the "x" keybinding. (Debian bug #166571) * Several minor fixes of bugs, memory leaks, etc. [4/21/2002] Version 0.2.11.1 "Data updates are my friend" * This release has corrections to typos and other data issues; it does not change a single line of code. This should be pushed into woody. * Merged updated Polish translations from Michal Politowski <mpol@charybda.icm.edu.pl> (Debian bug #143051) * Merged updated Finnish translations from Jaakko Kangasharju <ashar@iki.fi> * Included information on the CVS tree (Debian bug #141371) * Fixed the dangling reference to SEARCHING in the manpage (Debian bug #142651) [4/06/2002] Version 0.2.11 "Look Ma, No Hands!" aka "Hello, JoeyH :)" * IMPORTANT: The "new" command style is now default. The old one is available from the options menu, and users of previous versions may have it in ~/.aptitude/config. The new style is fairly straightforward, and similar to dselect. (eg: '+' tells the program to install the package at the most recent version, and/or cancels holds) With any luck, this will squeeze into woody; I don't need a whole new generation of users used to the old imprecise system before I change it. * '+' on an installed package no longer reinstalls it. A separate keybinding for reinstalling packages is now available, defaulting to 'L'. (Debian bug #183122) * The prompt in command-line mode now allows you to enter the full UI, or to modify the set of installed/removed/purged packages. (Debian bug #136916) * The preview in command-line mode can be more informative: it can display version numbers and dependency information. (-V and -D) * Added a -P option; passing it causes aptitude to always prompt for confirmation. * Verbosity levels are now available. Right now this only affects simulation (with verbosity=0, the long list of "Inst foo/Conf foo/etc" is suppressed) * Many command-line options can now be given in the configuration file. (eg, Aptitude::CmdLine::Show-Versions for -V) * The command-line mode now supports an "unhold" command. (Debian bug #137770) * Tasks and sections now have "descriptions" which appear in the `package description area'. (Debian bug #136684) * Added a %H display escape, which expands to the hostname of the computer aptitude is running on. (Debian bug #137754) * In command-line mode, the prompt is suppressed on upgrades when nothing is to be done. (Debian bug #137302) * Reinstalled packages are displayed in the preview screens again. (Debian bug #138120) * Rewrote the description widget's formatting code to be reasonably legible; this had the side effect of fixing an otherwise tricky bug. (Debian bug #137783) * Fixed a bug which made the Tasks tree virtually useless by hiding many packages. (Debian bug #136684) * If the user aborts an update, reload the cache. (Debian bug #138070) * autoclean now defaults to false, the "safe" option. (Debian bug #138685) * Fixed a nasty segfault involving running off the end of the list. (Debian bug #136967) * Fixed an infinite loop if the user tried to scroll the description while it was hidden. (Debian bug #140361) * The "install" command-line action doesn't interpret trailing plus characters (or hyphens, underscores, or equal signs) in a package name as explicit install requests if a package by that name already exists. In short: "aptitude install g++" actually works. (Debian bug #140933) * Focus handling: you can no longer focus an empty description widget, and the highlight bar in the package tree is hidden when the tree loses focus. (Debian bug #136550) * "aptitude --help" now documents the "download" command. (Debian bug #138150) * The status messages on startup are now suppressed in the "aptitude search" command. (Debian bug #136873) * When the download is stalled, "stalled" is now displayed in the progress bar. (Debian bug #136520) * The command-line mode deals sanely with window resizes. (Debian bug #137945) * For obsolete and local packages, an "available" version is not displayed. (Debian bug #120872) * Added a description for the "alien" section (Debian bug #136684) * aptitude now recognizes "--version" (Debian bug #141296) * German translation updated, courtesy of Erich Schubert <erich@debian.org> * Thanks go to joeyh (and others) for sending in a slew of bug reports and suggestions. [3/02/2002] Version 0.2.10 "World Domination Or Bust" * aptitude now has support for batch/command-line mode, similar to apt-get. This isn't going to make everyone happy just yet, but it should cover most common cases. Upgrades via this approach get all the usual benefits of aptitude (tracking unused packages, recommends, etc). There are various other features; see aptitude(1). * If a package matches the "never remove these packages" expression, not only will it not be removed automatically, but its dependencies are also protected. * Documented the "p" state of packages. (Debian bug #135112) * Matchers now exist for upgradable and new packages. The new meaning of the ~r matcher (things which would be removed due to being unused) has been assigned to the new ~g matcher; the old ~r meaning has been reinstated. (Debian bug #135571) * If Suggested packages are being installed by default, no packages will be removed automatically if something else Suggests them. There are still a few odd cases here, but this is probably about as good as I can do for now. (Debian bug #135956) * There is now a menu item to mark all upgradable and not manually held packages for upgrade. * Packages being downgraded are now split into their own section in the preview. * Logging is now on by default; /var/log/aptitude is used. * When Auto-Upgrade is off, packages which are not manually held are not displayed with "h" in the action field. * Updated Finnish translations from Jaakko Kangasharju <ashar@iki.fi> * Fixed a display problem in the download screen; the amount of time displayed in the summary always had an extra "s" appended to it. (Debian bug #135567) * Removed the INSTALLATION section from the manual; however, it was replaced by command line options. I'm not sure how joeyh will feel about this fix. (Debian bug #136478) [2/17/2002] Version 0.2.9.4 "Black Holes Are Where God Divided By Zero" * When calculating the time remaining in a download, aptitude was dividing by CurrentCPS. Unfortunately, CurrentCPS is often zero! On some platforms this works anyway, but it crashes on others (eg, alpha) The code now tests whether CurrentCPS is zero when generating the progress bar. (Debian bug #122064) * Forget-new-on-update actually works. (Debian bug #134226) [2/10/2002] Version 0.2.9.3 "Curse you, gcc steering committe!" * g++-3 #defines _GNU_SOURCE by default, causing compilation to die in because it's already defined. All #define _GNU_SOURCE directives are now protected. (Debian bug #133250) * Actually include the Polish translation of the manpage, and update pl.po slightly. (Debian bug #114396) [2/09/2002] Version 0.2.9.2 "Odds 'n Ends" * This release is because I accidentally left some uncommitted cruft on a computer I wasn't planning to use for a while. I rediscovered it, equally accidentally, and am now releasing it officially. * Added %M to the default column display. * Tweaked the preview screen so that packages which are being automatically upgraded do not appear as being "Automatically Installed" (maybe not the best way of doing things?) * Really fixed the su-to-root stuff. * ~ahold now really does the Right Thing (same for some related stuff) (Debian bug #126800) [2/09/2002] Version 0.2.9.1 "Silence of the LANs" * Argh. I left a bug in 0.2.9; marking a package as auto-installed screwed up undo. Fixed now. [2/09/2002] Version 0.2.9 "Please Sir, Can I Have Some More?" aka "When Changelog Entries Attack" aka "Slower Than Cold Molasses" * This one took so long to get out and has so many bugfixes that it gets three release names. Aren't you happy? :) * aptitude now has functionality similar to debfoster/deborphan. It tracks whether a package was automatically installed and automatically marks automatically installed, but not-depended-upon, packages for removal. You can of course adjust this behavior; see the "TRACKING UNUSED PACKAGES" section of the manual. (Debian bugs #122726, #102205, #114464) * Added logic for idempotent package commands, and an option to enable them. I feel that these commands are actually much more logical than the old-style aptitude commands. * Packages which are held, but broken, are now visually flagged as being broken. (Debian bug #120785) * The log messages now include date/time. (Debian bug #120874) * Re-ordered the preview screen's grouping. I would like feedback on this. (Debian bug #128542) * Rewrote several sections of the documentation, partly based on user input. (Debian bug #126492) * Mark all upgradable packages for upgrade before resolving any dependencies. This handles a situation involving ORed version-specific dependencies. (Debian bug #108379) * Changed the symbols for collapsed/opened trees to something not using +/-, which seem to be ambiguous. (Debian bugs #120890, 102033) * When editing a string, the cursor now starts at the beginning of the line. (Debian bug #120890) * When reconfiguring packages, gracefully handle the case where /usr/sbin/su-to-root does not exist. (Debian bug #130423) * Really made translated header widths work (and I tested it this time! :) ) (Debian bug #114401) * Corrected a misspelling in the options dialog (Debian bug #120887) * Updates to da.po from Morten Brix Pederson <morten@wtf.dk> * The information bar at the top of the screen is now translatable. Patch from Morten Brix Pederson. * Fixed a misspelling in de.po. (Debian bug #123644) * Fixed a minor display bug when a package category was longer than the width of the screen and the last item in the display. (Debian bug #123652) [12/09/2001] Version 0.2.8.1 "Sigh" * Incremental search now returns the display to the starting location on the empty string and invalid patterns. * There is now a matcher for packages which are not depended on in various ways. (Debian bug #122726) * The pause after a download is now optional (Debian bug #120873) * package data moved to /var/lib by default. (Debian bug #122334) * Aptitude should not crash on alpha any more, at least, not the way it used to. * Description of the "comm" section changed to explicitly include non-faxmodems. (Debian bug #121951) * "j" and "k" were reversed in the help text. They are now correct. (Debian bug #122061) * Danish translation from Morten Brix Pedersen <morten@wtf.dk> * es_ES.po has been renamed to es.po. Someone who knows more about Spanish than me (Jordi Malloch) told me this was a better name for it. * pt_BR.po updated from patch supplied by Andre Luis Lopes <andrelop@ig.com.br> (Debian bug #122251) [11/22/2001] Version 0.2.8 "I Like Bunnies" * Better documentation for the behavior of "/" when no special search terms are used. (Debian bug #120592) * Fixes some segfaults accidentally introduced with the incsearch code. * Incremental search is now an option (defaulting to ON) * Added special matchers which match packages depending on another package. These matchers take another matcher as an argument, so you can specify conditions such as "packages depending on packages maintained by me" [11/21/2001] Version 0.2.7.999 "This release will self-destruct in 10 seconds" * This release is a prerelease to 0.2.8, to test the new incsearch code. * Incremental search implemented, finally. * Don't crash if tasksel is missing. (Debian bug #120578) * Make sure to use the correct translated column widths all the time. (Debian bug #114401) * Minor memory leak in search code fixed (it would leak a few bytes every time you entered a new search term) [11/20/2001] Version 0.2.7.3 "Boy I'm glad I'm not a turkey" * Categories updated to take into account many new packages in the archive. * New pl translation finally merged. (Debian bug #114396) * Fixed reference to ~a/~A in README (Debian bug #116695) [11/20/2001] Version 0.2.7.2 "Ludicrous Speed" * Rewrote the task loader based on input from Jason Gunthorpe. The new version should be significantly faster, especially on low-end systems. (Debian bug #116750) * Fixed an annoying visual bug involving the page-up key. * Added a menu item to reload the cache on demand (useful for debugging) This is a compile-time option and defaults to being disabled. * The "f" key in Minesweeper mode is now documented in the online help. (Debian bug #120251) [10/01/2001] Version 0.2.7.1 "Millenium Hand and Shrimp" * Made it compile again using g++-3. [10/01/2001] Version 0.2.7 "All the zeros and ones" * Version number bumped, just because this is not merely a trivial bugfix, and the version numbers were getting silly. * Added support for the Task header. (Debian bug #113657) I'm not sure what will happen if you have task- packages as well as Task headers. Probably something weird. [9/22/2001] Version 0.2.6.5 "Twisting arms" * Work around a g++ bug on arm by reversing the order of some #includes. * Reverting options no longer sets options which had been set by the user's personal configuration to a blank string. [9/15/2001] Version 0.2.6.4 "If at first you don't succeed" * Loading keybindings works again. In addition, it works correctly in the presence of themes. (the keybindings defined in the theme can be individually overridden by the user) Fixes Debian bug #112307 * The list of available keybindings in README has been corrected. [9/14/2001] Version 0.2.6.3 "More bug-skooshing" * When compiled without optimization, aptitude no longer crashes whenever a package is unhighlighted. (I shudder to think why the optimized build wasn't crashing) * move_forward_level no longer ever "falls off the edge of the world". This fixes the segfault reported in #112267. [9/13/2001] Version 0.2.6.2 "Bug-skooshing" * The program no longer crashes when the hierarchy editor is used. All known something-completely-doesn't-work type bugs are now fixed. * Updated the package categorizations. [9/13/2001] Version 0.2.6.1 "Darkness over Manhatten" * Fixes a horrible bug in 0.2.6 which prevented downloads from working. (Debian bug #111950) * The translations should be back in the package again. (d'oh!) (Debian bug #111904) * The default display is back to its usual configuration (oops) * An option now appears in the "UI Options" dialog for the default grouping. * The scrolling behavior of the line-editor should be more friendly. (it'll scroll by single characters to a greater extent) [9/8/2001] Version 0.2.6 "It's against my programming to impersonate a deity" * IMPORTANT NOTE: this version will not compile on potato. If anyone cares about this, I can patch the code to not compile themes on potato. (the problem is that a feature I use to load themes isn't available in potato's libapt) Alternatively, some brave soul could patch aptitude to load themes using potato's libapt... * Released despite the fact that 0.2.5.3 is not yet in testing. From my glances at the testing bot's output, the problem is that the deity people are being lazy and not fixing RC bugs, which (since aptitude depends on a version of apt not in testing) is preventing the new apt from going into testing (which would break deity in testing). And aptitude can't go into testing without the new apt. Blah. By the time deity-devel fixes their bugs and gets recompiles for all archs and so on, this will be ready for testing. I would have uploaded it a long time ago, had I realized what would happen. * This version adds support for externally defined package hierarchies, one of the major original goals of aptitude. As usual, this turned out to integrate less well into the program than I had hoped. Fixing this will probably require another tree-class rewrite, and I think I'll aim at fixing it in 0.4.x. Anyway, though, the basic stuff is there. A lot of the work, actually, was in a massive and concerted attempt to make a first-cut hierarchy of all the packages in sid. This was successful, in the limited sense that such a hierarchy now exists (and is distributed with the program) However, it has many problems and even some inconsistencies. Further work on that front is needed. The hierarchy stuff is documented in README.hier. If you are an APT frontend author, please be aware that it is trivial to implement, and a (slow) generic implementation is available in src/generic/pkg_hier.{cc,h}. (this is currently the implementation used by aptitude itself) In other words: I want to encourage people to use this mechanism. If you are interested in helping improve the categorizations, I suggest using the internal category editor (press "E" while viewing packages) The Vertical-Split layout is particularly useful for this. Efficiency is somewhat of a concern with this code; however, if you do not use it, it is my hope that it will never affect your use of the program. * In addition, there is slightly hacky support for a "flat package browser". This goes hand-in-hand with the above change, as I found that complex hierarchies were actually harder (for my little mind :) ) to navigate using aptitude's traditional tree-based approach. Do "New Categorical Browser" from the "Views" menu to try this out. * The screen layout may now be configured by the user. This is currently only available by editing configuration files, and is undocumented (because it's complicated, and I may change the format for a few revisions while I'm trying to figure out the best way of doing things) See $prefix/share/aptitude/aptitude-defaults for some examples. * "Theming support" is available. A "theme" is basically a collection of settings that makes aptitude behave and look differently. The only themes available are "Vertical-Split" (highly recommended by me for wide consoles or xterms, especially if you're editing package hierarchies), and "Dselect" (not particularly useful even if you are a dselect junkie) * Aptitude::UI::Default-Grouping is now documented, and will not be used to set the grouping of a preview screen (bug #110704) * Aptitude::UI::Package-Header-Format is now documented. * Colors can be defined as being bold. This cleans out a lot of evil cruft. * A 'short priority' column is now available (added to support a dselect theme) * autoclean-on-update works again. (bug #108565) * ~ahold works again. (bug #111466) * Several bugs in the table layout code were fixed; it should behave much more sanely now. * If aptitude (God forbid!) crashes or is killed with a catchable signal, it will now properly shut the display down instead of leaving it in a screwy state. * Fixed building on ia64 (old nasty debug code was breaking it) * Deleted the note in the README about "Save Options" * The configuration is now saved to config.new and moved to config using rename(2). This should guard better against problems with the save process. * Subtree names in small windows are no longer clipped to one character too short. * Updated my mailing address in README and AUTHORS to @debian.org. [8/6/2001] Version 0.2.5.3 "I hate build errors" * getopt_long returns an int, not a char. This caused signedness problems on powerpc. * time() and difftime() are in time.h. This caused compile problems on the Hurd; it seems they were accidentally implicitly included on other platforms. * "make dist" no longer generates the ChangeLog automatically from RCS entries. This means that I'll have to maintain it manually, but that REALLY beats having to download the full log for every file over a phone line every time I release a new version. [7/27/2001] Version 0.2.5.2 "Dashing away with a smoothing iron" * Fix an endianess problem that caused crashes on Alpha (among others) (Debian bug #106588) [7/24/2001] Version 0.2.5.1 "Hand me the brown paper bag, nurse!" * Using a widget with a history list no longer segfaults the program. Lesson of the day: never assume that a change is benign even if it couldn't possibly cause any problems! (Debian bug #106378) [7/23/2001] Version 0.2.5 "Drop the text editor and back away slowly" * Multi-CD installs now work. (Debian bug #104236) * Mouse support added. Doesn't do much now, but the menus and buttons will work with it, and you can double-click packages to see information on them. * The download list can be scrolled left and right using the left and right arrow keys. * Line-editors can now have a history list. (used when entering search and limit terms, grouping mechanisms, and sorting policies) * The prompt to enter a search term now defaults to an empty string; press up or Control-P to recall the previous term. * The 'set group' command now displays the current group as a default entry. (Debian bug #103962) * The Minesweeper help screen should really work this time. * The Install/Remove menu item does the same thing as pressing 'g' when a preview is selected. * Added a line at the top of the screen listing some important keybindings, and removed the welcome dialog. The welcome dialog was annoying, and extensive user testing (consisting of me watching over my sister's shoulder for about 5 minutes) revealed that people don't bother to read the keybinding information in it anyway. (Debian bug #104483) * The primary Undo keybinding (ie, the one displayed in the menu) is now C-u, not C-_. [7/19/2001] Version 0.2.4 "C++ standard? What C++ standard?" * aptitude compiles with g++-3.0. (Debian bug #104723) * help-fi.txt is now in CVS (it was in the distribution tar.gz, but never got added to CVS. Go figure) [7/11/2001] Version 0.2.3 "Curse you, Peter Pan!" * Finally, a new version..unfortunately, aptitude 0.2.2 needs two more days to get into testing, and I'm going to be gone in a few days. I want to upload this version significantly before the freeze, since it fixes some bugs and could also add some that'll have to be squashed. So I'm going to say farewell to my dreams of 0.2.2 in testing, and upload this. Maybe I should increase the urgency, I really don't want the version in testing to be released with woody. * This version of aptitude should compile on Progeny Linux and on potato. * aptitude can now attempt to automatically su to the root user when running as a non-root user. Treat this with some care, as it's a fairly complex and new feature -- ie, there are probably bugs and unexpected behavior lurking in it. However, this should provide an escape route in "OMG, I just spent an hour picking programs to install and forgot I wasn't root!" situations. * aptitude now supports some command-line options, see "man aptitude" for details. * "status bar" downloads aren't any more; "split-screen" is more accurate. They display the currently active items and leave out the history of past downloads. * With any luck, the media-change message should now fit on one line. This still doesn't handle the case where the CD name is longer than the screen width, but I hope it'll do for now. * Pressing "q" while a 'status bar' download is in progress now stops it. * If the package list is resized so that the selection would be off the screen, the selection will now be preserved. (Debian bug #103963) * A package description with a word which is longer than the screen width will no longer crash aptitude. (Debian bug #103691) * Broken dependencies now have a visual marking other than color. (Debian bug #79047) * If the menubar autohides and the user opted to be able to close all screens without exiting the program, force the menu to be visible anyway if no screens are active. (Debian bug #102918) * Fixed bugs that prevented the "utils" and "hamradio" sections from having descriptions displayed. * If you try to start aptitude as root while the apt cache is locked, it will open the cache read-only. (previously it just refused to run at all) * A limit type based on the action to be taken with a package (install/upgrade/remove/purge/reinstall/hold) is now available. (Ted Tso's suggestion, no bug #) * The 'action' keys can now advance the cursor to the next item at the current level. They won't advance into subtrees or out of the current subtree; this is because it's nontrivial for me to move to the "next" subtree due to the design, and moving out of a subtree violates the Principle of Least Surprise (not to mention probably causing you to delete half your packages) (Debian bug #104209) * Pressing '?' while playing Minesweeper will actually show a help screen now. * You can now run dpkg-reconfigure from within aptitude (it's a silly feature, but it's also about 10 lines of code..) * When aptitude starts for the first time, it will *not* mark every package as new. [6/29/2001] Version 0.2.2 "Finlandia" * The Finnish translations have been updated to work with 0.2.0. This is the major change in this release. * Default widths can now be set by the translator, albiet in a slightly hacky way. (you can translate a string of numbers to set them. See pkg_columnizer.cc for a short description) * A short description of each section is now displayed next to the section itself. This clutters things up a bit and may be modified or removed in a future release. [6/28/2001] Version 0.2.1 "Another Fine Mess" * Options are now automatically saved when you hit "OK". Let's hope I was overly paranoid earlier about the possible consequences of this.. * Installing from CD-ROMs works. Amazingly, this worked perfectly in every release through 0.1.9 -- 0.2.0 broke it when I changed the semantics of popup_widget(), and I couldn't test it until I finally found a CD.. * Minesweeper's dialog boxes (new game, etc) work. (although pressing Enter while Cancel is selected does the Wrong Thing..) * The original behavior of the tree widgets has been restored: they only scroll one line at a time. Personally, I find this to be much better; I hope you do too. * Really fixed the signedness issues with addch() this time. (I hope..) * The ancient bug that caused the root of the tree to be hidden when you pressed End has been found and terminated (with extreme prejudice) [6/25/2001] Version 0.2.0 "Damn The Torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead!" * Ok, it took a bit longer than I expected. Sue me. This is the first version in the 0.2.0 "stable" series, where "stable" means "working reasonably well". User-visible changes from 0.0.x include: * The UI has been completely rewritten. Several changes below follow from this, but in general it allowed the interface to become more flexible and dynamic. * aptitude now supports a split-screen display. It isn't visible by default in all screens; press 'D' to show or hide it. * There is a global menubar. * The currently active views are arranged less like a stack: you can cycle between them or jump to a particular one. * 'x' no longer has any function. You cannot say "revert all changes I made in this display", because with a non-stack display model, "all changes I made in this display" doesn't make sense. * You can read this document from within the program. * The program options can be modified from within the program. * You can configure the way in which packages are grouped and sorted. * You can play Minesweeper from within the program. * The download display has been entirely rewritten. ie, it works now and isn't so much of a hack. * When a package is marked for installation, aptitude can now install the packages it recommends and/or suggests as well. * aptitude can now perform clean and autoclean operations. * much, much more. (well, maybe not. Do I look like I know?) Changes from version 0.1.9: * Aptitude::UI::Prompt-On-Exit works again. * The extended description area can be hidden by default. * Autoclean actually works, rather than just saying that it works. * The menubar now automatically pops up the first menu, rather than doing this "select the menu name" thing. * It should now be possible to view the NEWS file from the Help menu. * Removed the Test Error. * Added src/vscreen/README.layout to the files which are included in the distribution. * You now get the extended description area, status line, and so on in all screens, even if you access them via a version item (oops) * The extended description no longer allows you to scroll off the bottom. * Fixed sorting, in an only slightly ugly way. (the configurable sorting was only being applied to the first level of hierarchy) * Eight-bit characters should work again in vs_pager, I hope. * vscreen/ compiles with g++-3.0. The convention I'm now using for STL classes is this: header files should explicitly use "std::" to access them; .cc files should declare "using std" (AFTER all #includes!) * Several strings were still hard to translate because they were used in concatenation to produce a result. * Menu tweaks: the "o" in "Remove obsolete packages" is now highlighted. * Fixed some random deadlocks by using recursive mutexes. * Documentation updated, although not as much as I wanted to. Pre-0.2.0 versions: =============================================================================== [6/18/2001] Version 0.1.9 "Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace." * If there are no serious bug reports about this, APTITUDE 0.2 WILL BE UPLOADED TO UNSTABLE IN THE NEAR FUTURE! Therefore, if you know of a problem that should prevent this from being released into the wild, PLEASE TELL ME! Thank you. * There is now a header which displays various useful information. * The views all display a header, description area, and status line. (previously only the main package list displayed them) * The status line now does something slightly more sensible when no package is selected. Suggestions for further refinement welcome * Changing the status layout configuration now has an immediate effect. * You can now have a separate limit for preview screens (Aptitude::UI::Preview-Limit) * Various informational messages are displayed in the status line now if the "minibuffer interaction" option is set. * Package matchers for Origin and Archive are now available. * There is now an option ("Aptitude::UI::Welcome-Dialog") controlling whether the potentially annoying welcome dialog is displayed on startup. * Various potential crashes fixed, I hope. [6/15/2001] Version 0.1.8 "Making a List and Checking It Twice" * Viewing dependencies no longer causes Aptitude to enter an infinite loop * Added consistency checking: you can no longer perform an installation run if there are broken packages (the problem-resolver will run and you will be sent back to the preview screen) * Aptitude can now install Recommends and Suggests when a package is selected for installation. (note, however, that libapt is a little screwy and seems to behave incorrectly if there is an OR in the Recommends: or Suggests: line. I'll work up a proper bug report when I have a chance) This only works if Auto-Install is on. Therefore: * Auto-Install IS NOW ON BY DEFAULT! I think this should be fine, but people should be aware of this. * Aptitude can now perform the "autoclean" operation of apt-get. It can also perform the "autoclean" operation automatically whenever packages are updated. Addresses Debian bug #97653. THIS IS ON BY DEFAULT! If you think having it be on by default is bad, PLEASE LET ME KNOW! If you think having it be on by default is good, PLEASE LET ME KNOW! I have mixed feelings about this, because while naive users who just take the defaults will probably benefit from this, I feel that it violates the "principle of least surprise". * Reinstalled packages are no longer listed as broken in the preview screen. * Reinstalled packages and versions of reinstalled packages are colorized correctly. * Aptitude::Log is now documented. * Action logs are now sorted by type and package name. In other words: it should now be possible to make sense of them. * Essential packages can be selected using a matcher. * Packages which are essential have a line saying "Essential: Yes" in their info screens. * Marking an essential package for removal is now difficult (if you can get the problem-resolver to do it, though, the program won't complain when you try to remove them. I don't think the problem-resolver will ever do this, though..) Addresses Debian bug #86115 * Packages can be grouped and sorted by priority. * Cleaning the package cache gives more feedback. * Recommends and suggests are colored red if they are not met. * Certain trees (specifically package installation modes and priorities) now are sorted in a non-alphabetical order. For instance, with priorities, the highest priority comes first, followed by the next-highest, and so on. * Fixed a crash when using ANDs in matching expressions. [6/4/2001] Version 0.1.7 "No." * Scrollbars should now be fixed in the popup pagers. (there are still some visual artifacts, which I'm tempted to attribute to Curses bugs..) * A Minesweeper game is now available in aptitude, to liven up those long downloads. Select "play Minesweeper" from the main menu.. * Trying to repeat a search before a search has been performed no longer crashes the program. * Many more items added to the options menu and dialogs. Internally we now use static tables to build the option dialogs, which should make it easier to add new options to them. * Fixed several small problems with the documentation of configuration options. * A popup window now appears for the entire time that aptitude is setting up after loading the cache. (it currently says "loading cache") The real solution is to make this not take so long, but.. * NOTE: this version does NOT have the "don't let the user do something broken" code featured in 0.0.8.7. With luck, 0.1.8 will have its own version of that logic. [5/3/2001] Version 0.1.6 "Are We There Yet?" * Merged with the stable branch through 0.0.8.6 * File menu renamed to Actions (since that's what it is) * Undo re-enabled, and created an "Undo menu". Note that undo no longer has the mark/revert behavior it used to -- in fact, it cannot, because the UI is no longer a strict stack (you can switch from one screen to another freely) * The README can now be viewed (from within the program) from the Help menu. * The menus and a lot more UI stuff should now be fully translatable. * Fixed a nasty little bug where undoing one action would make all auto-upgraded packages revert to being held. (backported to 0.0.8.6) * When displaying a keybinding to the user, C-_ is displayed as C-_ rather than C-^?. * Information about the currently selected item is now displayed in the "status bar" style, with an additional "bold" attribute. Makes it easier to tell apart from, say, an extended description. * Fixed some bugs in the logic for causing the download display to constantly stick to the end: in particular, the currently downloading item should now be on the bottom line of the screen rather than being off the bottom (and thus invisible) * If ~/.aptitude does not exst when the user selects "save options", it is now created. [4/27/2001] Version 0.1.5 "Will Debianize For Food" * All changelog entries which are really from 2001 are now listed as being from 2001. However much I wish I could stop the forward march of time, I don't think that's the way to go about doing it. * Split-screen! Ok, it's slightly hacky, unconfigurable, can't display anything besides the package description, and the bindings are quirky, but hey, the idea is there :) For lazy people :), 'D' shows/hides the description window and 'a' and 'z' move up/down in it. 'Tab' can be used to switch to it, at which point the usual navigation keys work. At least, the ones I've implemented (up one line and down one line) work. * A precompiled matcher is now always used to perform searches. This not only makes searches (hopefully) faster, it also prevents crashes when a bad search term is encountered a la bug #95455. * Packages which don't have an explicit source package listed should have a source package which has the same name as the package itself. The info screen now makes use of this fact. * Exiting now saves the selection info again (there's not yet an "exit and discard changes" -- just Ctrl-C :-) ) [4/10/2001] Version 0.1.4 "Once there was an Elephant, who tried to use the Telephant" * Merged with stable up through 0.0.8.3. * The multiplexer now jumps to the "previous" widget when the current one is destroyed. The point of this is that the main aptitude display will act more or less like a stack again, which is a lot more convenient than how it was acting in 0.1.3. * The "Cancel" button displayed after downloading packages actually works. * When downloading stuff, the "saving extended information" progress bar is hidden. * The (non-minibuffer) download screens now have an "overall progress" indicator. * The status line now displays information about the currently selected menu item. [3/23/2001] Version 0.1.3 "South Blue Quickly" * Still a BETA DEVELOPMENT RELEASE. * Worked around a dumb autoconf bug. * Merged with stable updates through 0.0.8.0. * Added a match type for versions (~V) * Fixed a bug that caused the download-list to be updated at very irregular intervals. * Added a popup after the download that claims you can continue or cancel. You can't. But it's a nice thought anyway. (see the first item) * Added sorting policies. It was harder than it sounds. See README. [2/21/2001] Version 0.1.2 "Erlk÷nig" * Still a BETA DEVELOPMENT RELEASE. * How packages are grouped into the hierarchy can finally be configured! Currently there are only a few totally new options, but I'm sure people will find novel ways to brea^H^H^H^Hconfigure their systems. Also, it's dead simple to add parsing for new policies (see load_config.cc and pkg_grouppolicy.cc) See the "GROUPING CONFIGURATION" section in the README for more information. * The download screen now scrolls automagically! This closes one of the longest-standing and most just complaints about Aptitude. (TODO: add a scollbar widget -- not hard) * The "bytes downloaded" message shown when download completes now allows you to scroll the download screen behind it. (TODO: display this as a "minibuffer" if the user requests it) * Synced with 0.0.7.15, fixes various minor issues and makes the default grouping more sane. * When you do a "forget new", the display is updated to reflect that fact. * Supposedly, package-info lines should be hidden when you perform a download. I'm not sure this actually works.. * There's code to allow different sorting policies, not that you can actually use it. (eg, sort by size..) * Divide-by-zero errors no longer randomly happen while you're downloading. [1/30/2001] Version 0.1.1 "Fool! I told you the Electric Rubber Ducky Incident was never to be mentioned in my presence again!" * Still a BETA DEVELOPMENT RELEASE. * Updating package lists and installing packages is now possible! This is still a little dicey and will improve in coming releases, but you can do it. * aptitude now compiles (and works) with APT 0.4, in addition to APT 0.3 No 0.4 special features are explicitly supported yet. * configure.in now aborts if libsigc++ can't be found. * Keybindings for the current view were incorrectly active while the menu was being used. Fixed. * You can now choose whether the menu should auto-hide, and by default it doesn't. * Searching for packages is again possible. I've tried something that will hopefully make it less slow.. * The apt package cache can be cleared from aptitude. * Various crashes fixed. [12/3/2000] Version 0.1.0 "Release without a name" * This is a BETA DEVELOPMENT RELEASE. It is not fully functional yet; please use older versions if you need missing features. * The ui-rewrite tag finally belches forth a working binary! Yes, aptitude 0.1.0 is here at last. Changes are too numerous to really list, but: * vscreen is now a full widget library based on libsigc++, supporting real layout, signals/slots (of course), and..um..lots of other good stuff. Look at the header files for more info (yes, I'll probably eventually fork it into another project) * this means that aptitude now depends (build and runtime) on libsigc++0. Sorry, potato users :( * On the plus side, we finally have a (links-style) menubar. * User-specific options (in ~/.aptitude/config) are supported, and can be explicitly saved by the user. * The new version doesn't handle small terminals so well yet (and resizing an xterm will cause a segfault!) =============================================================================== Pre-0.1.0 versions begin here: [6/8/2001] Version 0.0.8.7.1 "D'oh" * The limit of the preview screen can once again be modified. Thanks to Michael Politowski for pointing out a simple typo. [6/4/2001] Version 0.0.8.7 "Home from the Hospital" * Displaying information about a particular package version will now use the description of THAT version. * Fixed some problems with the autotools suite. * If the user's selections in the preview screen mean that something has to be fixed-up, the program now does the fixing and presents another preview. This addresses the following Debian bugs: #87774, #96559. It may not fully close them; I am not certain whether the problem in those bugs is that I am incorrectly displaying the state of the packages, or that the problem resolver is doing stuff behind the user's back. Note: this is NOT forward-ported to version 0.1.x; this code is different enough in that track that I'll have to come up with a solution separately. [5/3/2001] Version 0.0.8.6 "Groundhog Day" * Really don't save extended state info if that info was modified (I thought this worked in 0.0.8.4, but, doh, I actually had done it in the unstable branch) * Hitting "purge" on a package version now does the expected. (Debian buf #96228, reported by the same JP) [5/1/2001] Version 0.0.8.5 "Bring Me A Shrubbery!" * Fixed two bugs relating to translations, reported by the ever-vigilant Michal Politowski: - Reran gettextize so that translations get installed with usable names. (Debian bug #95749) - Changed "purge" to "purged" when it is used to describe a package's current state. (this lets translators distinguish between them, and is probably better anyway) (Debian bug #95867) [4/27/2001] Version 0.0.8.4 "I hate finals" * aptitude now only saves its extended state information if that information was modified (Debian bug #93135, reported by JP Sugarbroad <taral@taral.net>) * Don't segfault when the user searches while the cursor is on the last item in the tree. (Debian bug #95495, reported by Len Sorensen <lsorense@opengraphics.com>) * Added description of action/state flags to online help and README. (Debian bug #93216, reported by Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr@pingu.ii.uj.edu.pl>) PS - debian bug #90909, referenced below, dealt with a crash that occured when updating the package lists while viewing information about a package. Sorry for the overly terse entry. [4/5/2001] Version 0.0.8.3 "Palindrome" * Fix Debian bug #90909, reported by Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe@orcus.priv.at> This bug was due to the fact that I inexplicably overrode an important method to do nothing. * Added a Galacian manpage and help file. Thanks go to Jacobo Tarrio <jtarrio@iname.com>. [3/23/2001] Version 0.0.8.2 "Midterms suck" * Fix compile problems with apts in the 0.3 series. (this one was actually tested with 0.3, so there) [3/18/2001] Version 0.0.8.1 "Do you know how hard it is to come up with dozens of clever and witty release names? I bet you don't! I bet no-one even reads these! I bet it doesn't matter if I rant for pages and pages and pages about teapots in the sky!" * Fixed a long-standing but undetected bug. It turns out that some packages exist in the database but aren't available (they are called into existence by, for instance, a dependency on a non-existant package) But aptitude was storing "sticky" state information for these packages. This had a number of subtle but potentially startling consequences; among them is the fact that if a package of that name was eventually uploaded to the archive, it wouldn't show up as "new". [3/16/2001] Version 0.0.8.0 "Roll over, roll over.." * Galician translations, thanks to Jacobo Tarrio <jtarrio@iname.com>. (is it a sign that your program is popular when people translate it to languages you've never heard of? Thank God for web1913 :) ) * Spent a few minutes figuring out how to do (non-sticky, sorry) installation of a particular version. Finally those version lists do what they oughta! More or less. * Incremented the third digit of the version. Please don't laugh. [3/04/2001] Version 0.0.7.19 "Jubjub" * help-pl.txt is really installed. * Don't print spurious errors when the user enters blank patterns. * The "search again" binding now really has two values instead of just one. [3/03/2001] Version 0.0.7.18 "Jabberwocky" * Retroactively corrected NEWS entries which were in '00 but should have been in '01. * Fixed bugs reported by Michal Politowski <mpol@charybda.icm.edu.pl> - Accented characters in the status line are no longer displayed incorrectly (a stupid sign-extension bug) - Fixed a few cases of overeager marking of strings for translation. - Fixed three crashes in the parsers for matchers and limits * Entering an invalid limit will no longer occasionally cause dozens of errors. * Gave in and made "n" an alternate binding for "search again". * Added Polish translation, contributed by Michal Politowski. [2/24/2001] Version 0.0.7.17 "I will not make a stupid Brown Paper Bag reference here" * Fixed a horribly STUPID bug in the APT 0.5 support, involving me misreading the prototype of VersioningSystem::CheckDep and passing the arguments in reverse order from what it expected! Oops. [2/23/2001] Version 0.0.7.16 "Brought to you by the letter F" * Added two new translations: - Finnish, contributed by Jaakko Kangasharju <ashar@iki.fi> - French, contributed by Martin Quinson <mquinson@ens-lyon.fr> * Made some formerly untranslatable strings in load_config.cc translatable (thanks to Jaakko for pointing this out) * configure.in now hacks around brokenness in some autoconf releases that caused C++ code to break. [2/01/2001] Version 0.0.7.15 "Coda" * Fixed a whole slew of bugs that Zack Weinberg <zackw@stanford.edu> was unfortunate to run into simultaneously: - Running into an error while loading the configuration no longer causes the program to panic and display a blank "we couldn't start successfully" screen. - Keybinding subgroups don't cause a spurious error message. - If startup isn't successful (and thus the package file wasn't read), trying to exit no longer causes a crash. (just in case, added checks in several other places for NULL pointers as well) - The bindings for vs_tree (Aptitude::UI::Keybindings::Tree) can now also be reconfigured from the toplevel, as expected. [12/18/2000] Version 0.0.7.14 "Grouping therapy" * Suggestions and patches from Arto Jantunen <viiru@debian.org>: - Tasks are now displayed as a separate "section" - The hierarchy has been 'inverted'. The primary grouping mechanism is now the 'subsection', with the 'top section' above it. - Redundant hierarchy such as "virtual/virtual" is no longer there. - the online help explains about the 'f' key. * Various bugs, crashes, and bad behavior with APT 0.4 thrashed out. [12/12/2000] Version 0.0.7.13 "Portage" * aptitude should now compile without modifications against APT 0.4. The fancy new features won't be used and will probably never be hooked into this branch -- the long-vapoured (but still slowly approaching) rewritten version will be where I fiddle with that stuff. [11/27/2000] Version 0.0.7.12 "Bored in Providence" * The long-standing TODO item of allowing a single package to be installed without affecting anything else is more-or-less fixed, although I'm not sure if it's the best implementation (actually, I'm sure it probably has unfortunate glitches still..) Press "I" and read about it in the README (although I should clear that documentation up..) [11/26/2000] Version 0.0.7.11 "My Grandma, what big Segfaults you have!" * Fix a long-standing bug that triggered a segfault-on-start in extremely unusual circumstances (which is how it avoided me for so long) [11/26/2000] Version 0.0.7.10 "I didn't do it! No-one saw me do it!" * Errr...the changes in the last version included a hack to make packages appear in the right indentation from the left-hand side of the screen. This hack also happened to cause the program to misbehave very badly in some circumstances (eg, when trying to download packages) I've replaced it with a more invasive hack that actually works. Oh, and I tested it this time. Testing things is a good idea.. [11/25/2000] Version 0.0.7.9 "YOW! I've been LAID OUT by a COLUMN GENERATOR!" * The only change in this release is a total rewrite of the column-generation code. It's much less crufty and should allocate space more cleverly on larger displays. (this also fixes a debbts report) The column configuration is slightly different; if you have a custom configuration, you might want to check the README. [11/22/2000] Version 0.0.7.8 "Silence of the Turkeys" * Fixed a minor typo in the README reported in the Debian BTS. * Similarly, fixed a small interface bug with the package-limit string. * Finally got around to adding the delete-to-end-of-line and delete-to-beginning-of-line functions to the line-editor. * Logs of install runs now display (for upgraded packages) the version being upgraded from and the version being upgraded to. [10/27/2000] Version 0.0.7.7 "Pentecost" * More translations (es_ES and pt_BR) added. Thanks to Jorge Carrasquilla Soares and Douglas Moura Ferreira for contributing these. [10/15/2000] Version 0.0.7.6 "Package Management for Pern" * Debian bug #74788 fixed: threads are eliminated if not available, allowing aptitude to compile on the Hurd. (go Hurders!) [10/13/2000] Version 0.0.7.5 "Friday the 13th" * Fixed the bug reported by Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>, where "x" had its view of its arguments backwards. (this was introduced by the change in 0.0.7.2 which altered the messages displayed when saving as an unprivileged user) [10/11/2000] Version 0.0.7.4 "Ich bin ein Berliner!" * corrected German translations. Hopefully .de users won't mind no longer being amused by my fractured Deutsch. Thanks to Sebastian Schaffert for contributing these. * Masato Taruishi has contributed a patch to internationalize even more strings (it is even possible to have language-specific online help, although no internationalized help files are written yet) He also updated the Japanese translation to reflect this. (the German translation, unfortunately, continues to lag behind) [10/3/2000] Version 0.0.7.3 "If I only had a brain" * aptitude now REALLY has a manpage. (if it doesn't get installed by "make dist", it's not in the program..) [9/23/2000] Version 0.0.7.2 * "Bug-reports keep fallin' on my head" * aptitude now has a manpage. * The program now works properly with local files (this was a problem that arose from my abuse of libapt) * If aptitude is run as an unprivileged user, pressing "q" and "x" no longer mention saving anything. * Merged in an i18n patch (thanks to Masato Taruishi for this and the Japanese translation) There is a German translation done by me, but given the state of my German, a native speaker may want to send me a corrected translation. [8/03/2000] Version 0.0.7.1 * "Faster than a speeding river of molasses" release. * The lengthy hiatus here was due to the fact that I was originally planning to fix a bunch of cruft and release quickly towards the beginning of the summer <sarcastic laughter> Then I decided to rewrite the UI in a branch in CVS. That's not done, but the more braindead mistakes really ought to be fixed, and should have been back in May when I found them... * Aptitude can now generate a simple logfile when doing a dpkg run (and optionally pipe it into a command) It's not much (it should really be sorted, or at least include more info), but it can help with "err, what were those 500 packages I just upgraded?" situations :-) * Column-formatting uses printf-style %-escapes instead of the old method. * Fixes the "DOH, lockfiles don't go in /" bug. * file: URLs (ie, local package repositories) now work. [4/18/2000] Version 0.0.7 * The segfault that plagued 0.0.6.9 seems to be gone. Thanks go to Panu HΣllfors <panupa@iki.fi> for helping me narrow the problem down. Please let me know if you encounter similar problems (or, indeed, any problems :) ). The following changes were in 0.0.6.9 but not mentioned (oops): * Wrote a proper help screen, so you don't get the full README when you press '?'. We still don't have a mechanism for dynamically adjusting the display based on keybindings, but this should make things somewhat nicer for newbies. [4/9/2000] Version 0.0.6.9 * This version introduces undo capabilities. You can undo any number of actions on packages (install, remove, etc--even "forget new") See the manual for details. * As a result, there are now two ways to quit: "q" quits and saves changes, and "x" quits and discards changes. * Major restructuring of the directory tree. The toplevel now contains only code for aptitude itself--low-level UI stuff is in vscreen/ and generic useful routines (eg, the apt-cache wrapper) are in generic/ * Major changes to the keybinding code; keybindings are now mostly shared between the different contexts they occur in, with the ability to override a keybinding in a particular context. * Added some alternative keybindings (vi-style and others), by popular request. * Reorganized the TODO list and added a bunch of stuff to it. * Searching now handles virtual packages * Limiting on package names no longer segfaults * Columns with nothing to display should display a placeholder value (eg, "<none>") instead of simply being blank. * Fixed various problems with detecting and flagging broken dependencies * Fixed various problems with the handling and displaying of OR groups * Reverse dependencies which occur because of Provides are now displayed correctly. * There is no longer a default binding for just displaying a package's description; "i" will display the full information screen by default. (it's just as easy to see the description this way, and you get more information as well) The old behavior can be regained by binding Description to "i": 'Aptitude::UI::Keybindings::Description "i";' in /etc/apt/apt.conf (you may need to remove the binding for InfoScreen as well) * Various segfaults when trying to get information about virtual packages were fixed. * You can now perform a package-list update or an install run from any apt tree, not just a package list (or at least you should be able to) Of course, if the package you are viewing vanishes from the cache as a result, you will be sent back to where you came from. * Added a match type, ~c, which matches removed packages with conffiles remaining on the system. * You can now easily toggle the display of column headers at runtime by pressing "h". 2/06/2000 Version 0.0.6a * Fixed a rather embarassing compile error that got into 0.0.6. 2/06/2000 Version 0.0.6 * Greatly improved search capabilities. You can now match on many different attributes of a package, and combine search terms into complex expressions. This is used both for searching and implementing "display limits", which act as a filter for the visible list of packages. See README for details. * Added commands to expand and collapse an entire tree of packages. * Searches now have a 'wraparound' behavior. * Actually set up a binding for Refresh, handle it globally. * Made the display of broken packages more uniform. * Fixed a problem that caused packages to be put on hold when you cancelled a removal or an install. * Pressing "hold" on a package which can't be upgraded now /toggles/ the sticky-hold state (it was hard to turn it off previously) * Fixed another dependency-OR handling bug which caused OR lists to appear to include the first package before the list. * Changed the install-preview screen to more correctly packages whose state was changed by fixing broken dependencies. Packages which are being installed or deleted for this reason get their own trees. * The amount of padding after a column can now vary by column and is configurable. * Errors now use a single color definition, and are white on red. * You can now download and view the Changelog for a package (not perfect yet: you get HTML cruft, not all packages work (that I may not be able to fix) ) * Fixed a bug which caused problems with displaying errors. * Added column types for the section and priority. * Added a minimal online-help system (just displays the README) * Internal change (not used yet): the vscreen main loop now supports the registration of timers. (configure with --with-periodic-beep to enable a really annoying beep at one-second intervals) * Internal change: the status/header-lines and status widget handling of vs_tree were split into a new class, vs_minibuf_win. * Internal change: vscreen::repaint no longer implicitly calls refresh. * Internal change: the code to orchestrate downloads moved to download.{cc,h} 1/19/2000 Version 0.0.5 * This release has a lot of bugfixes, column formatting support, and a greatly fixed status-line editor. * Sanitized and made consistent a lot of arbitrary decisions about what version to use when looking statistics up about a package. The function pkg_item::visible_version() handles this. * You can now get package information by pressing Enter while a particular version of a package is selected. Information about that version will be displayed. * Don't crash if the user tries to update the package lists while not root or while another apt is running. (oops..) * The preview screen *should* separate out packages which can't be upgraded because of broken dependencies. * Broken versions weren't being displayed with a "broken" color; fixed. * Throttle the update frequency of the progress bars; previously I was updating as quickly as possible, which lead to a massive loading up of the system. This change greatly improved startup times. * libncurses5 sometimes sends KEY_RESIZEs -- don't assert their absence anymore, just ignore them :) * column support! Configurable! This is really the major feature in this release; see the README for more * Overhauled the status-line editing widget to fix a lot of small bugs and greatly improve editing. * Added a single keystroke to repeat the last search (bind something to ReSearch) * At the request of omega@anomie.dhis.net, added a status tree for obsolete packages. 1/10/2000 Version 0.0.4a * "Faster than a speeding bullet" release. (I really am starting to regret trying to come up with clever names for releases. :) ) * Had a sudden flash of inspiration and added the three-line fix needed to hack around libncurses5's leaveok() brokenness. 1/10/2000 Version 0.0.4 * "New Year's Resolution" release. I actually managed to fix everything which I claimed I would, but I've resolved never to promise to fix something in the next release again. Even to myself. ;-) Also, I want to release versions more often.. * Aptitude now tries to Do The Right Thing with regard to the dselect state of a package by adjusting its own state when the dselect state changes in between runs. This prevents the really bad problems I experienced. * The interface coloration is now configurable (see README for details) * More information is available in the download screen -- the actual amount of data dowloaded for each item and an estimated time to completion (for everything) are displayed. * Compiles against libncurses5, although there's an annoying visual bug when using libncurses5 that I can't get rid of (leaveok doesn't seem to hide the cursor anymore..) * Fixed the bug which caused ORs in dependencies to apparently continue forever (that is, "Depends: libc6, mutt | mail-reader, libncurses4" would be displayed as "Depends: libc6, mutt | mail-reader | libncurses4") * Rewrote the various messages and interaction involving the status line to be done the Right Way[tm]. * Aptitude now (by default) displays what changes will be made -- that is, which packages will be installed, removed, etc, before performing a package run -- press the "install packages" key again to continue. * Setting Aptitude::Auto-Install to true will cause dependencies of a package to automatically be marked for installation when you select it to be installed. * Aptitude now (by default) attempts to resolve missing dependencies and fix broken packages before doing an install run. To disable this, set "Aptitude::Fix-Broken" to false. * A screen with all information about the package collected into one location is now available (by default, you can access it by pressing Enter while a package is selected) * Finally got rid of the visual bug that caused non-selectable things to appear selected (I fixed it by not displaying them as selected even when they are ;-) ) * Added descriptive headers to the version and dependency lists. * Made the behavior of selections around non-selectable items much more logical. * Package trees now display, in the header, an estimate of the number of bytes which will be downloaded and installed on the next package run. * Packages can now be reinstalled. * Removed a lot of the old test code. The next release will probably (see my resolution :) ) rename "testscr.cc" to "main.cc". * Documentation updates. Rewrote aptitude-hackers-guide.txt to be less a file-by-file tour and more a high-level overview. * Included a real CVS commit log (see ChangeLog) 12/20/1999 Version 0.0.3 * "Merry Christmas and a Happy Armageddon" release. This'll probably be the last Aptitude release before the year 2000. Assuming that civilization has not collapsed, expect to see another version early in the new year. (hopefully before potato freezes ;-) ) If not, I guess I'll have to start porting it to the abacus platform.. * Configurable keybindings! Rejoice! See README for more info and examples. * aptitude now has persistent state, stored (by default) in /var/state/aptitude. * This is used to implement some dselect-like capabilities, including 'sticky' selections that persist across sessions and the ability to track new packages. New packages are implemented in a manner entirely orthogonal to selection state, which means (in short words) that a package can remain "new" for an indefinite amount of time, even after it's installed. * Two configuration options, Aptitude::Forget-New-On-Update and Aptitude::Forget-New-On-Install, are provided to automatically clear the list of new packages. * As an unforunate side-effect, dselect selections are no longer inherited. The main reason is that I couldn't think of a clean way to save the package states into the dselect database (calling dpkg --set-selections should work, but you have to play with lockfiles then..) And it's tricky in general to try to manage two almost-but-not-quite identical databases of info. This may come back in the next release if I can work out how to do it (but it'll probably be controlled by a flag and off by default) On the other hand, it's not really needed unless you're trying to mix dselect and aptitude. * The package list can be searched. This occasioned at least one really nasty (but non-buggy!) hack, which I'll fix in the next release. Currently *only* package lists (not version lists, etc) can be meaningfully searched, and searching only looks for substrings in the package name -- no regexps or checking of descriptions. (guess when this'll be fixed?) * A progress bar is now available for initialization and so on * Errors are displayed by the UI (needs a little work still, but functional..) * An annoying resize bug in 0.0.2 was fixed -- if you resized the xterm during a download, everything would start to flicker. * Various segfaults, crashes, hangs, and visual quirks were eliminated. * This is the first release to get a tag in CVS! :) 12/5/1999 Version 0.0.2 * aptitude can now download and install packages! This means that it's now technically possible to use it in place of other package management tools, although it's still lacking some stuff that would make it a really useful program. This is the major change, and the reason for the new release. * dselect selections are now inherited * short package descriptions are displayed in the status line of the package tree * you can mark package *versions* for installation and removal (sometimes) * broken dependencies should be visually flagged * Various other bugfixes and tweaks. 11/18/1999 Version 0.0.1 -- Very preliminary alpha version released for comment and/or criticism. 10/20/1999 Version 0.0.0 -- Added automake support, it requires this file. Nothing else to say, I don't have enough code to make this file useful yet.