merged from the debian-sid branch

debian/apt.cron.daily

@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ if [ "$VERBOSE" -ge 3 ]; then
     # trace output
     set -x
 fi
+
 # laptop check, on_ac_power returns:
 #       0 (true)    System is on main power
 #       1 (false)   System is not on main power
@@ -233,6 +234,16 @@ for x in $(seq 0 1 $((${BackupLevel}-1))); do
     eval "Back${x}=${Back}${x}/"
 done
 
+# check if we actually have to do anything
+if [ $UpdateInterval -eq 0 ] &&
+   [ $DownloadUpgradeableInterval -eq 0 ] &&
+   [ $UnattendedUpgradeInterval -eq 0 ] &&
+   [ $BackupArchiveInterval -eq 0 ] &&
+   [ $AutocleanInterval -eq 0 ]; then
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+
 # backup after n-days if archive contents changed.
 # (This uses hardlink to save disk space)
 BACKUP_ARCHIVE_STAMP=/var/lib/apt/periodic/backup-archive-stamp

debian/changelog

@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
-apt (0.7.14) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+apt (0.7.15) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+  [ Michael Vogt ]
+  * improve apt progress reporting, display trigger actions
+
+ --
+
+apt (0.7.14) unstable; urgency=low
 
   [ Christian Perrier ]
   * Mark a message from dselect backend as translatable
@@ -14,9 +21,6 @@ apt (0.7.14) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Documented all cron script related configuration items in 
     configure-index.
 
-  [ Michael Vogt ]
-  * improve apt progress reporting, display trigger actions
-  
   [ Program translations ]
   * Simplified Chinese updated. Closes: #473360
   * Catalan fixes. Closes: #387141
@@ -43,8 +47,13 @@ apt (0.7.14) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Apply patch to avoid truncating of arbitrary files. Thanks to Bryan
     Donlan <bdonlan@fushizen.net> for the patch. Closes: #482476
   * Avoid using dbus if dbus-daemon isn't running. Closes: #438803
+  
+  [ Michael Vogt ]
+  * debian/apt.cron.daily:
+    - apply patch based on the ideas of Francesco Poli for better 
+      behavior when the cache can not be locked (closes: #459344)
 
- -- Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>  Sun, 04 May 2008 08:31:06 +0200
+ -- Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>  Wed, 28 May 2008 15:19:12 +0200
 
 apt (0.7.13) unstable; urgency=low