apt/debian/changelog

apt (0.5.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
    - Fix segfault when handling /etc/apt/preferences.  Closes: #192409.
  * Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
    - Clean up some string handling, patch from Peter Lundkvist
      <p.lundkvist@telia.com> (Closes: #192225)
    - Don't fall off the end of the buffer when comparing versions.
      Patch from Koblinger Egmont <egmont@uhulinux.hu> (Closes: #194327)
    - Minor fixes to apt-ftparchive(1) (Closes: #118156)
    - Fix typo in apt-ftparchive help text (Closes: #119072)
    - More typos in apt-ftparchive help text (Closes: #190936)
    - Update config.guess, config.sub to latest versions
    - Modify the description for apt-utils to reflect the fact that it is not
      (any longer) infrequently used (Closes: #138045)
    - Make setup script for dselect method more explicit about
      overwriting sources.list (Closes: #151727)
    - Fix typo in apt-cache(8) (Closes: #161243)
    - Remove duplicate 'showpkg' from synopsis on apt-cache(8)
      (Closes: #175611)
    - Document in apt-get(8) the meaning of the '*' in ShowList, which is that
      the package is being purged (Closes: #182369)
    - Fix extra "/" character in apt.conf(5) (Closes: #185545)
    - Fix typo in tar error message (Closes: #191424)
    - Clarify description of 'search' on apt-cache(8) (Closes: #192216)

 -- 

apt (0.5.5.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Move the target of the example docs from doc to binary.  Closes:
    #192331
  * Fix api breakage that broke apt-ftparchive and apt-cache dumpavail, by
    backing out change that incorretly attempted to handle Package sections
    larger than 32k.  Closes: #192373
  * Fix never-ending loop with apt-get install -V.  Closes: #192355.

 -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Mon, 19 May 2003 12:30:16 -0500

apt (0.5.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * New deb version compare function, that has no integer limits, and
    supports pre-versions using ~.  Code ported from dpkg.
  * Fix handling of [!arch] for build-dependencies. Closes: #88798, #149595
  * Fix handling of build-deps on unknown packages. Closes: #88664, #153307
  * "apt-get --arch-only build-dep" to install only architecture-
    dependent build dependencies. Bump minor shared lib number to reflect
    small change in BuildDepend API.
  * APT::Build-Essential configuration option (defaults to "build-essential")
    so that "apt-get build-dep" will ensure build essential packages are
    installed prior to installing other build-dependencies. Closes: #148879
  * LD_LIBRARY_PATH thing. Closes: #109430, #147529
  * /usr/doc reference in postinst. Closes: #126189
  * Doc updates. Closes: #120689
  * Possible apt-cache segfault. Closes: #120311, #118431, #117915, #135295,
          #131062, #136749
  * Print special message for EAI_AGAIN. Closes: #131397
  * libapt-pkg-dev needs to bring in the apt-inst library if linking
    is to work. Closes: #133943
  * Typos, Doc Stuff. Closes: #132772, #129970, #123642, #114892, #113786,
         #109591, #105920, #103678, #139752, #138186, #138054, #138050,
	 #139994, #142955, #151654, #151834, #147611, #154268, #173971
  * Fix possibility for tag file parsing to fail in some unlikely situations.
    Closes: #139328
  * Use std C++ names for some header files. Closes: #128741
  * Do not check for free space if --no-download. Closes: #117856
  * Actually implement or group handling for 'upgrade'. Closes: #133950
  * "Internal Error, Couldn't configure pre-depend" is not actually an
    internal error, it is a packaging error and now it says so, and
    pinpoints the problem dependency. Closes: #155621
  * Allows failure to write to a pipe for post-invoke stuff. Closes: #89830
  * Use usr/share/doc for dhelp. Closes: #115701
  * --print-uris works with 'update'. Closes: #57070
  * Options Dpkg::MaxArgs,Dpkg::MaxArgBytes to allow a much longer dpkg
    command line.
  * Fixed 2 little OR group bugs, thanks to Yann Dirson. Closes: #143995,
    #142298
  * Allow an uninstalled package to be marked for removal on an install
    line (meaning not to automatically install it), also fix some dodgy
    handling of protected packages. Closes: #92287, #116011
  * Fix errant prefix matching in version selection. Closes: #105968
  * Ensure that all files needed to run APT as a user are readable and
    ignore roots umask for these files. Closes: #108801
  * Support larger config spaces. Closes: #111914
  * 'apt-get update' no longer does 'Building Dependency Tree'.
  * When matching regexs allways print a message. Change regex activation
    charset. Closes: #147817
  * Don't die if lines in sources.list are too long. Closes: #146846
  * Show file name on apt-extracttemplate error messges. Closes: #151835
  * i18n gettext stuff, based on work from Michael Piefel: Closes: #95933
  * Some highly unlikely memory faults. Closes: #155842
  * C++ stuff for G++3.2. Closes: #162617, #165515,
  * apt-config dumps sends to stdout not stderr now.  Closes: #146294
  * Fix segfault in FindAny when /i is used, and there is no default.
    Closes: #165891
  * Add s390x to archtable.  Closese: #160992.
  * Update config.sub/config.guess in cvs, and add support to debian/rules
    to update them from /usr/share/misc if they exist.  Closes: #155014
  * Remove 'Sorry' from messages.  Closes: #148824.
  * Change wording of 'additional disk space usage' message.  Closes:
    #135021.
  * apt-extracttemplates now prepends the package name when extracting
    files.  Closes: #132776
  * Add -n synonym for --names-only for apt-cache.  Closes: #130689
  * Display both current version and new version in apt-get -s.  Closes:
    #92358
  * Add an options and timeout config item to ssh/rsh.  Closes: #90654
  * libapt-pkg-dev now depends on apt-utils.  Closes: #133942.
  * Change verbose logging output of apt-ftparchive to go to stderr,
    instead of stdout.  Also, errors that occur no longer go to stdout,
    but stderr.  Closes: #161592
  * Test for timegm in configure.  Closes: #165516.
  * s/st_mtime/mtime/ on our local stat structure in apt-ftparchive, to
    support compliation on platforms where st_mtime is a macro.  Closes:
    #165518
  * Check the currently mounted cdrom, to see if it's the one we are
    interested in.  Closes: #154602
  * Refer to reportbug instead of bug in the man pages. Closes: #173745
  * Link apt-inst to apt-pkg. Closes: #175055
  * New apt_preferences man page from Thomas Hood, Susan Kleinmann,
    and others.
  * Fix > 300 col screen segfault. Closes: #176052
  * Rebuild with gcc-3.2. Closes: #177752, #178008.
  * Fix build-dep handling of | dependencies.
    Closes: #98640, #145997, #158896, #172901
  * Double default value of APT::Cache-Limit, until such time as it
    can be made more dynamic.  Closes: #178623.
  * Report uris with '.gz' when there are errors.  Closes: #178435.
  * When installing build-deps, make sure the new version will
    satisfy build requirements. Closes: #178121
  * Split offline and guide documentation into apt-doc.  This was done so
    that binary-arch builds do not require documention deps.  Note, that 
    apt-doc is not installed on upgrades.
  * Use doc-base, instead of dhelp directly.  Closes: #110389
  * Change http message 'Waiting for file' to 'Waiting for headers'.
    Closes: #178537
  * Remove trailing lines on package lists in apt-get.  Closes: #178736.
  * Fix origin pins for file:// uris.  Closes: #189014.
  * Apply typo and syntax patch from bug to apt-cache.8.sgml.  Closes:
    #155194
  * s/dpkg-preconfig/dpkg-preconfigure/ in examples/configure-index.
    Closes: #153734.
  * Fix some typos in the apt-get manual.  Closes: #163932.
  * Apply patch from bug, to change frozen to testing, and then do it
    everywhere else.  Closes: #165085.
  * Update es.po.  Closes: #183111.
  * Add pt_BR translation of apt_preferences(5).  Also, build fr manpages.
    Closes: #183904.
  * Add a vcg command to apt-cache, similiar to dotty.  Closes: #150512.
  * Add option to apt-get to show versions of packages being
    upgraded/installed.
  * Be quiet in apt.post{inst,rm}.  Closes: #70685.
  * apt-get now prints out suggested and recommended packages.  Closes:
    #54982.
  * Insert some newlines in the cdrom change media message.  Closes:
    #154601.
  * Add a rdepends command to apt-cache.  Closes: #159864.
  * When building the dpkg command line, allow for 8192 chars to be used,
    instead of only 1024.
  * APT::Immediate-Configure had inverted semantics(false meant it was
    enabled).  Closes: #173619.
  * Fix status file parser so that if a record is larger than 32k, the
    buffer size will be doubled, and the read attempted again.  Closes:
    #174945.

 -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Sun, 27 Apr 2003 01:23:12 -0500

apt (0.5.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * M68k config.guess patch. Closes: #88913
  * Bi-yearly test on OpenBSD and Solaris
  * Doc updates. Closes: #89121, #89854, #99671, #98353, #95823, #93057,
          #97520, #102867, #101071, #102421, #101565, #98272, #106914,
          #105606, #105377
  * Various cosmetic code updates. Closes: #89066, #89066, #89152
  * Add "pre-auto" as an option for DSelect::Clean (run autoclean after
    update).
  * More patches from Alfredo for Vendors and more SHA-1 stuff
  * Fix for AJ's 'desire to remove perl-5.005' and possibly other
    similar situations. Closes: #56708, #59432
  * no_proxy and ftp. Closes: #89671
  * Philippe Batailler's man page patches.
  * Fix for display bug. Closes: #92033, #93652, #98468
  * Use more than 16bits for the dep ID. Some people ran out..
    Closes: #103020, #97809, #102951, #99974, #107362, #107395, #107362,
            #106911, #107395, #108968
  * Reordered some things to make dante and FTP happier. Closes: #92757
  * James R. Van Zandt's guide.sgml updates. Closes: #90027
  * apt-ftparchive copes with no uncompressed package files + contents.
  * French man pages from philippe batailler - well sort of. They
    don't build yet..
  * run-parts. Closes: #94286
  * 'apt-cache policy' preferences debug tool.
  * Whatever. Closes: #89762
  * libstdc++ and HURD. Closes: #92025
  * More apt-utils verbage. Closes: #86954
  * Fliped comparision operator. Closes: #94618
  * Used the right copyright file. Closes: #65691
  * Randolph's G++3 patches.
  * Fixed no_proxy tokanizing. Closes: #100046
  * Strip Config-Version when copying status to available. Closes: #97520
  * Segfault with missing source files. Closes: #100325
  * EINTR check. Closes: #102293
  * Various changes to the locking metholodgy for --print-uris.
    Closes: #100590
  * Lame LD_LIBRARY_PATH thing. Closes: #98928
  * apt-cache search searchs provide names too now. Closes: #98695
  * Checksum and long lines problem. Closes: #106591
  * .aptignr and empty files are just a warning. Closes: #97364

 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>  Sat, 18 Aug 2001 17:21:59 -0500

apt (0.5.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * JoeyH's dpkg::preconfig not working. Closes: #88675
  * Fixed apt override disparity
  * Alfredo's SHA-1 and related patches

 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>  Sun,  4 Mar 2001 15:39:43 -0700

apt (0.5.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed mention of /usr/doc in the long description
  * JoeyH's downgrade bug -- don't use 0.5.1
  * Doc bug. Closes: #88538
  * Fault in building release strings. Closes: #88533

 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>  Sun,  4 Mar 2001 15:39:43 -0700

apt (0.5.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed #82894 again, or should be and.
  * Process the option string right. Closes: #86921
  * Don't eat the last command for pipes. Closes: #86923
  * Ignore .* for configuration directory processing. Closes: #86923
  * Alfredo's no_proxy patch
  * Documentation fixes. Closes: #87091
  * JoeyH's double slash bug. Closes: #87266
  * Unintitialized buffer and apt-ftparchive contents generation.
     Closes: #87612
  * Build-deps on virtual packages. Closes: #87639
  * Fixes glibc/libstdc++ symbol dependencies by including glibc and
    libstdc++ version info in the library soname and in the package
    provides. Closes: #87426
  * Updated soname version to 0.3.2
  * apt-extracttemplates moved from debconf into apt-utils
  * s390 archtable entry. Closes: #88232
  * Dan's segfault
  * Some instances where the status file can source a package in a
    non-sensical way. Closes: #87390
  * Work better if there are duplicate sources.list entries.
  * Fixed the resetting of Dir with "dir {};". Closes: #87323

 -- Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>  Sat, 3 Mar 2001 15:37:38 -0700

apt (0.5.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed an obscure bug with missing final double new lines in
    package files
  * Changed the apt-cdrom index copy routine to use the new section
    rewriter
  * Added a package file sorter, apt-sortpkgs
  * Parse obsolete Optional dependencies.
  * Added Ben's rsh method. Closes: #57794
  * Added IPv6 FTP support and better DNS rotation support.
  * Include the server IP in error messages when using a DNS rotation.
    Closes: #64895
  * Made most of the byte counters into doubles to prevent 32bit overflow.
    Closes: #65349
  * HTTP Authorization. Closes: #61158
  * Ability to parse and return source index build depends from Randolph.
  * new 'apt-get build-dep' command from Randolph. Closes: #63982
  * Added apt-ftparchive the all dancing all singing FTP archive
    maintinance program
  * Allow version specifications with =1.2.4-3 and /2.2 or /stable postfixes
    in apt-get.
  * Removed useless internal cruft including the xstatus file.
  * Fixed config parser bugs. Closes: #67848, #71108
  * Brain Damanged apt-get config options changed, does not change the command
    line interface, except to allow --enable-* to undo a configuration
    option:
      No-Remove -> Remove
      No-Download -> Download
      No-Upgrade -> Upgrade
  * Made this fix configable (DSelect::CheckDir) and default to disabled:
     * No remove prompt if the archives dir has not changed. Closes: #55709
    Because it is stupid in the case where no files were downloaded due to
    a resumed-aborted install, or a full cache! Closes: #65952
  * Obscure divide by zero problem. Closes: #64394
  * Update sizetable for mips. Closes: #62288
  * Fixed a bug with passive FTP connections
  * Has sizetable entry for sparc64. Closes: #64869
  * Escape special characters in the ::Label section of the cdroms.lst
  * Created apt-utils and python-apt packages
  * Due to the new policy engine, the available file may contain entries
    from the status file. These are generated if the package is not obsolete
    but the policy engine prohibits using the version from the package files.
    They can be identified by the lack of a Filename field.
  * The new policy engine. Closes: #66509, #66944, #45122, #45094, #40006,
    #36223, #33468, #22551
  * Fixed deb-src line for non-us. Closes: #71501, #71601
  * Fixes for G++ 2.96, s/friend/friend class/
  * Fixed mis doc of APT::Get::Fix-Missing. Closes: #69269
  * Confirmed fix for missing new line problem. Closes: #69386
  * Fixed up dhelp files. Closes: #71312
  * Added some notes about dselect and offline usage. Closes: #66473, #38316
  * Lock files on read only file systems are ignored w/ warning.
    Closes: #61701
  * apt-get update foo now gives an error! Closes: #42891
  * Added test for shlibs on hurd. Closes: #71499
  * Clarified apt-cache document. Closes: #71934
  * DocBook SGML man pages and some improvements in the text..
  * sigwinch thing. Closes: #72382
  * Caching can be turned off by setting the cache file names blank.
  * Ignores arches it does not know about when autocleaning. Closes: #72862
  * New function in apt-config to return dirs, files, bools and integers.
  * Fixed an odd litle bug in MarkInstall and fixed it up to handle
    complex cases involving OR groups and provides.
    68754 describes confusing messages which are the result of this..
    Closes: #63149, #69394, #68754, #77683, #66806, #81486, #78712
  * Speeling mistake and return code for the 'wicked' resolver error
    Closes: #72621, #75226, #77464
  * Solved unable to upgrade libc6 from potato to woody due to 3 package
    libc6 dependency loop problem.
  * Leading sources.list spaces. Closes: #76010
  * Removed a possible infinite loop while processing installations.
  * Man page updates. Closes: #75411, #75560, #64292, #78469
  * ReduceSourceList bug. Closes: #76027
  * --only-source option. Closes: #76320
  * Typos. Closes: #77812, #77999
  * Different status messages. Closes: #76652, #78353
  * /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ directory for Joey and Matt and pipe protocol 2
  * OS detection an support for the new pseduo standard of os-arch for the
    Architecture string. Also uses regexing.. Closes: #39227, #72349
  * Various i18n stuff. Note that this still needs some i18n wizard
    to do the last gettextization right. Closes: #62386
  * Fixed a problem with some odd http servers/proxies that did not return
    the content size in the header. Closes: #79878, #44379
  * Little acquire bugs. Closes: #77029, #55820
  * _POSIX_THREADS may not be defined to anything, just defined..
    Closes: #78996
  * Spelling of Ignore-Hold correctly. Closes: #78042
  * Unlock the dpkg db if in download only mode. Closes: #84851
  * Brendan O'Dea's dselect admindir stuff. Closes: #62811
  * Patch from BenC. Closes: #80810
  * Single output of some names in lists. Closes: #80498, #43286
  * Nice message for people who can't read syserror output. Closes: #84734
  * OR search function. Closes: #82894
  * User's guide updates. Closes: #82469
  * The AJ/JoeyH var/state to var/lib transition patch. Closes: #59094
  * Various CD bugs, again thanks to Greenbush
    Closes: #80946, #76547, #71810, #70049, #69482
  * Using potato debhelper. Closes: #57977
  * I cannot self-terminate. Closes: #74928

 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>  Wed, 21 Feb 2001 00:39:15 -0500

apt (0.3.19) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Updates to apt-cdrom to support integrated non-us nicely, thanks to
    Paul Wade.
  * Fixed that apt-get/cdrom deadlock thing. Closes: #59853, #62945, #61976
  * Fixed hardcoded path. Closes: #59743
  * Fixed Jay's relative path bug
  * Allowed source only CDs. Closes: #58952
  * Space check is supressed if --print-uris is given. Closes: #58965
  * Clarified the documenation examples for non-us. Closes: #58646
  * Typo in the package description. Closes: #60230
  * Man Page typo. Closes: #60347
  * Typo in Algorithms.cc. Closes: #63577
  * Evil dotty function in apt-cache for generating dependency graphs
    with the as-yet-unpackaged GraphVis.
  * Appears to have been fixed in Janurary.. Closes: #57981
  * New config.guess/sub for the new archs. Closes: #60874
  * Fixed error reporting for certain kinds of resolution failures.
    Closes: #61327
  * Made autoclean respect 'q' settings. Closes: #63023
  * Fixed up the example sources.list. Closes: #63676
  * Added DPkg::FlushSTDIN to control the flushing of stdin before
    forking dpkg. Closes: #63991

 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>  Fri, 12 May 2000 21:10:54 -0700

apt (0.3.18) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Changes in the postinst script. Closes: #56855, #57237
  * Fixed bashism. Closes: #57216, #57335
  * Doc updates. Closes: #57772, #57069, #57331, #57833, #57896

 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>  Sun, 13 Feb 2000 01:52:31 -0800

apt (0.3.17) unstable; urgency=low

  * RFC 2732 usage for CDROM URIs and fixes to apt-cdrom
  * Fixed the configuration parser to not blow up if ; is in the config
    string
  * Applied visual patch to dselect install script . Closes #55214
  * Included the configure-index example
  * Minimal CD swaps
  * Library soname has increased
  * Fixed default sources.list to have correct URLs for potato when it
    becomes stable
  * Added a message about erasing sources.list to dselect setup script
    Closes: #55755
  * No remove prompt if the archives dir has not changed. Closes: #55709
  * Fixed inclusion of 2nd sample config file. Closes: #55374
  * Made file mtimes of 0 not confuse the methods If-Modifed-Since check.
    Closes: #55991

 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>  Mon, 31 Jan 2000 12:12:40 -0800

apt (0.3.16) unstable; urgency=low

  * Made --no-download work. Closes: #52993
  * Now compiles on OpenBSD, Solaris and HP-UX
  * Clarify segfault errors
  * More debhelper fixes. Closes: #52662, #54566, #52090, #53531, #54769
  * Fix for Joel's discovery of glibc removal behavoir.
  * Fix for Ben Collins file: uri from slink upgrade.
  * Fixed resume code in FTP. Closes: #54323
  * Take more precautions to prevent the corruption Joey Hess saw.
  * Fixed --no-list-cleanup
  * RFC 2732 URI parsing ([] for hostnames).
  * Typo in apt-cache man page. Closes: #54949

 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>  Fri, 14 Jan 2000 08:04:15 -0800

apt (0.3.15) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added DSelect::WaitAfterDownload Closes: #49549
  * Fixed cast error in byteswap macro and supporting code. Closes: #50093
  * Fixed buffer overflow for wide terminal sizes. Closes: #50295
  * Made -s and clean not do anything. Closes: #50238
  * Problem with Protected packages and the new OR code.
  * /usr/share/doc stuff. Closes: #51017, #50228, #51141
  * Remove doesn't require a package to be installable. Closes: #51175
  * FTP proxy touch ups in the mabn page. Closes: #51315, #51314

 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>  Sat,  4 Dec 1999 21:17:24 -0800

apt (0.3.14) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix Perl or group pre-depends thing Closes: #46091, #46096, #46233, #45901
  * Fix handling of dpkg's conversions from < -> <= Closes: #46094, #47088
  * Make unparsable priorities non-fatal Closes: #46266, #46267, #46293, #46298
  * Fix handling of '/' for the dist name. Closes: #43830, #45640, #45692
  * Fixed 'Method gave a blank filename' error from IMS queries onto CDs.
    Closes: #45034, #45695, #46537
  * Made OR group handling in the problem resolver more elaborate. Closes: #45646
  * Added APT::Clean-Installed option. Closes: #45973
  * Moves the free space check to after the calculated size is printed.
    Closes: #46639, #47498
  * mipsel arch Closes: #47614
  * Beautified URI printing to not include passwords Closes: #46857
  * Fixed little problem with --no-download Closes: #47557
  * Tweaked Dselect 'update' script to re-gen the avail file even in the
    event of a failure Closes: #47112
  * Retries for source archives too Closes: #47529
  * Unmounts CDROMs iff it mounted them Closes: #45299
  * Checks for the partial directories before doing downloads Closes: #47392
  * no_proxy environment variable (http only!) Closes: #43476
  * apt-cache showsrc Closes: #45799
  * De-Refs Single Pure virtual packages. Closes: #42437, #43555
  * Regexs for install. Closes: #35304, #38835
  * Dependency reports now show OR group relations
  * Re-Install feature. Cloes: #46961, #37393, #38919
  * Locks archive directory on clean (woops)
  * Remove is not 'sticky'. Closes: #48392
  * Slightly more accurate 'can not find package' message. Closes: #48311
  * --trivial-only and --no-remove. Closes: #48518
  * Increased the cache size. Closes: #47648
  * Comment woopsie. Closes: #48789
  * Removes existing links when linking sources. Closes: #48775
  * Problem resolver does not install all virtual packages. Closes: #48591, #49252
  * Clearer usage message about 'source' Closes: #48858
  * Immediate configure internal error Closes: #49062, #48884

 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>  Sun,  7 Nov 1999 20:21:25 -0800

apt (0.3.13) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix timestamp miss in FTP. Closes: #44363
  * Fix sorting of Kept packages. Closes: #44377
  * Fix Segfault for dselect-upgrade. Closes: #44436
  * Fix handling of '/' for the dist name. Closes #43830
  * Added APT::Get::Diff-Only and Tar-Only options. Closes #44384
  * Add commented-out deb-src URI to default sources.list file.

 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>  Sun, 19 Sep 1999 18:54:20 -0700

apt (0.3.12) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix for typo in the dhelp index. Closes: #40377
  * Multiple media swap support
  * Purge support. Closes: #33291, #40694
  * Better handling of - remove notation. Closes: #41024
  * Purge support. Closes: #33291, #40694
  * Error code on failed update. Closes: #41053
  * apt-cdrom adds entries for source directories. Closes: #41231
  * Sorts the output of any list. Closes: #41107
  * Fixes the looping problem. Closes: #41784, #42414, #44022
  * Fixes the CRC mechanism to lowercase all strings. Closes: #41839
  * More checks to keep the display sane. Particularly when fail-over is
    used with local mirrors and CD-Roms. Closes: #42127, #43130, #43668
  * PThread lockup problem on certain sparc/m68k. Closes: #40628
  * apt-cdrom understands .gz Package files too. Closes: #42779
  * Spelling error in dselect method description. Closes: #43251
  * Added security to the default source list. Closes: #43356

 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>  Fri,  3 Sep 1999 09:04:28 -0700

apt (0.3.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix for mis-parsed file: URIs. Closes: #40373, #40366, #40230
  * Fix for properly upgrading the system from perl 5.004 to 5.005

 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>  Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:06:44 -0700

apt (0.3.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * Spelling error in cachefile.cc. Closes: #39885
  * Trailing slash in dselect install if you try to use the
    default config file. Closes: #40011
  * Simulate works for autoclean. Closes: #39141
  * Fixed spelling errors. Closes: #39673
  * Changed url parsing a bit. Closes: #40070, #40069
  * Version 0.3.8 will be for slink/hamm (GNU libc 2).

 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>  Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:02:52 -0700

apt (0.3.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed missing text in the apt-get(8) page. Closes: #37596
  * Made --simulate and friends work with apt-get source. Closes: #37597, #37656
  * Fixed inclusion of man pages in the -doc/-dev package. Closes: #37633, #38651
  * Fixed handling of the -q option with not-entirely integer arguments
    Closes: #37499
  * Man page typo Closes: #37762
  * Fixed parsing of the Source: line. Closes: #37679
  * Dpkg/dpkg-hurd source bug. Closes: #38004, #38032
  * Added a check for an empty cache directory. Closes: #37963
  * Return a failure code if -d is given and packages fail to download.
    Closes: #38127
  * Arranged for an ftp proxy specifing an http server to work. See the
    important note in the sources.list man page.
  * Accounted for resumed files in the cps calculation. Closes: #36787
  * Deal with duplicate same version different packages. Closes: #30237
  * Added --no-download. Closes: #38095
  * Order of apt-cdrom dist detection. Closes: #38139
  * Fix apt-cdrom chop handling and missing lines. Closes: #37276
  * IPv6 http support
  * Suggests dpkg-dev for apt-get source. Closes: #38158
  * Fixed typo in apt-get help. Closes: #38712
  * Improved the error message in the case of broken held package. Closes: #38777
  * Fixed handling of MD5 failures
  * Documented list notation Closes: #39008
  * Change the 'b' to 'B'. Closes: #39007

 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>  Sun, 20 Jun 1999 18:36:20 -0700

apt (0.3.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Note that 0.3.5 never made it out the door..
  * Fix for apt-cdrom and unusual disk label locations. Closes: #35571
  * Made APT print numbers in decimal. Closes: #35617, #37319
  * Buffer munching fix for FTP. Closes: #35868
  * Typo in sample config file. Closes: #35907
  * Fixed whitespace in version compares. Closes: #35968, #36283, #37051
  * Changed installed size counter to only count unpacked packages.
    Closes: #36201
  * apt-get source support. Closes: #23934, #27190
  * Renames .debs that fail MD5 checking, provides automatic corruption
    recovery. Closes: #35931
  * Fixed autoconf verison. Closes: #37305
  * Random Segfaulting. Closes: #37312, #37530
  * Fixed apt-cache man page. Closes: #36904
  * Added a newline to apt-cache showpkg. Closes: #36903

 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>  Wed, 12 May 1999 09:18:49 -0700

apt (0.3.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Release for Ben while he is out of town.
  * Checked the size of partial files. Closes: #33705
  * apt-get should not print progress on non-tty. Closes: #34944
  * s/guide.text.gz/users-guide.txt.gz/ debian/control: Closes: #35207
  * Applied cdrom patches from Torsten.  Closes: #35140, #35141
  * smbmounted cdrom fix. Closes: #35470
  * Changed ie to eg.  Closes: #35196

 -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Sun,  4 Apr 1999 18:26:44 -0500

apt (0.3.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixes bug with file:/ URIs and multi-CD handling. Closes: #34923

 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>  Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:15:44 -0800

apt (0.3.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Major release into unstable of v3
  * These bugs have been fixed, explanations are in the bug system, read
    the man pages as well..
    Closes: #21113, #22507, #22675, #22836, #22892, #32883, #33006, #34121,
    	    #23984, #24685, #24799, #25001, #25019, #34223, #34296, #34355,
	    #24021, #25022, #25026, #25104, #25176, #31557, #31691, #31853,
    	    #25458, #26019, #26433, #26592, #26670, #27100, #27100, #27601,
    	    #28184, #28391, #28778, #29293, #29351, #27841, #28172, #30260,
    	    #29382, #29441, #29903, #29920, #29983, #30027, #30076, #30112,
    	    #31009, #31155, #31381, #31883, #32140, #32395, #32584. #34465,
    	    #30383, #30441, #30472, #30643, #30827, #30324, #36425, #34596

 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>  Mon, 15 Mar 1999 19:14:25 -0800

apt (0.3.1) experimental; urgency=low

  * Minor release of cvs version.
  * Added virtual package libapt-pkgx.x

 -- Mitch Blevins <mblevin@debian.org>  Wed, 10 Mar 1999 07:52:44 -0500

apt (0.3.0) experimental; urgency=low

  * New experimental version.

 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>  Tue, 15 Dec 1998 12:53:21 -0800

apt (0.1.9) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Return to the wacky numbering for when we build 0.1.8 for hamm
  * Important bug related to APT on the Alpha fixed
  * apt-get dist-upgrade problems fixed
  * tiny patch for http method to fix an endless loop
  * nice fix from /usr/doc/lintian/ to remove rpath nastiness from
    libtool and add proper shared lib dependancies
  * now dh_shlibdeps is called with LD_LIBRARY_PATH=debian/tmp/usr/lib
    in case an old libpkg is installed while building APT to prevent
    spurious dependancies

 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>  Thu,  5 Nov 1998 17:43:25 -0800

apt (0.1.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * New build with libstdc++2.9.
  * Various fixes; read the Changelog.

 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>  Thu, 15 Oct 1998 18:29:18 -0700

apt (0.1.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Various fixes in the FTP method for error checking. Fixes: #26188.
  * Spelling corrections in dselect method. Fixes: #25884
  * Fixes for compilation on alpha/ppc. Fixes: #25313, #26108.
  * No more bo releases: we're using a normal numbering system now.

 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>  Tue,  8 Sep 1998 19:27:13 -0700

apt (0.1.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Changed sources.list to point to 'unstable' by default, as
    'frozen' no longer exists!

 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>  Thu, 23 Jul 1998 22:00:18 -0700

apt (0.1.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstreamish version.
  * ftp method rewritten in C. Removes dependancies on all perl/perl
    related modules. This fixes many of the ftp method bugs.

 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>  Thu, 16 Jul 1998 22:19:00 -0700

apt (0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Release for unstable.

 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>  Tue, 30 Jun 1998 20:48:30 -0700

apt (0.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Kludge to fix problem in libnet-perl with illegal anonymous
    FTP passwords.
  * Moved to unstable; apt is in a useable state now.
  * Fixed version numbering. From now on, numbering will be:
    0.1 (no actual release) -> 0.1.0bo (release for libc5) ->
    0.1.1 (release for unstable). Thanks, Manoj.

 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>  Tue, 30 Jun 1998 20:40:58 -0700

apt (0.0.17-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * Fixed problem with libc6 version compare
  * Scott's away for a while, so I'll be packaging apt for the time
    being.

 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>  Thu, 25 Jun 1998 19:02:03 -0700

apt (0.0.16-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * Modifications to make apt-get more friendly when backgrounded.
  * Updated documentation.
  * Updates to graphic widgets

 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org>  Mon,  8 Jun 1998 11:22:02 -0400

apt (0.0.15-0.2bo) experimental; urgency=low

  * Bo compilation
  * Bob Hilliards crash

 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>  Sun, 31 May 1998 20:18:35 -0600

apt (0.0.15-0.1bo) experimental; urgency=low

  * Bo compilation
  * libstdc++272 patch

 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>  Sun, 31 May 1998 20:18:35 -0600

apt (0.0.15) experimental; urgency=low

  * Clean up source tarball (no user-visible changes)

 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org>  Tue, 26 May 1998 12:23:53 -0400

apt (0.0.14) experimental; urgency=low

  * Updates in ordering code to make sure certain upgrades work correctly.
  * Made dselect/setup understand ftp as well as http

 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org>  Wed, 20 May 1998 13:33:32 -0400

apt (0.0.13-bo1) experimental; urgency=low

  * Bo compilation

 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>  Mon, 18 May 1998 15:10:49 -0600

apt (0.0.13) experimental; urgency=low

  * Remove hardcoded egcc from debian/rules (#21575)
  * Fixes for ordering logic when system has a number of unpacked
    but unconfigured packages installed.
  * Spelling fix in dselect install method (#22556)

 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org>  Sun, 17 May 1998 20:08:33 -0400

apt (0.0.12) experimental; urgency=low

  * Fixed problems with package cache corruption.
  * Made to depend on libc6 >= 2.0.7pre1 due to timezone problems with
    earlier versions.
  * Interface and documentation improvements.

 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org>  Sat, 16 May 1998 23:17:32 -0400

apt (0.0.11) experimental; urgency=low

  * Change dependancies to pre-depends since breaking your packaging tools
    in the middle of an installation isn't very good.
  * Bug fixes to ftp method and general apt-get code

 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org>  Fri, 15 May 1998 08:57:38 -0400

apt (0.0.10) experimental; urgency=low

  * Run "dpkg --configure -a" after an aborted dselect install
  * Fixed problem with install looping
  * Support for authenticating proxys: (note this isn't terribly secure)
    http_proxy="http://user:pass@firewall:port/"
  * Substitute $ARCH in sources.list
  * Fixes in the resumption code for ftp

 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org>  Tue, 12 May 1998 09:14:41 -0400

apt (0.0.9) experimental; urgency=low

  * Added ftp support.
  * Various other less visible bug fixes.
  * Fixed problem with segfault when apt-get invoked in a non-existant
    directory (Bug #21863)
  * Bumped policy to 2.4.1

 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org>  Fri,  1 May 1998 09:18:19 -0400

apt (0.0.8) experimental; urgency=low

  * Fixed generated available file (Bug #21836)
  * Added download ETA (Bug #21774).
  * Fixed hardcoded ARCH (Bug #21751).
  * Fixed check on http_proxy (Bug #21795).
  * Added download speed indicator.

 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org>  Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:58:32 -0400

apt (0.0.7) experimental; urgency=low

  * Remove libdeity and apt from package for now, since only apt-get and
    apt-cache are actually useful right now.
  * Clean up handling of package installation errors.
  * Added timeout to http transfers (#21269)
  * Updated setup for dselect/apt method.
  * Updated man pages
  * Long options (added in 0.0.6)

 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org>  Tue, 21 Apr 1998 09:06:49 -0400

apt (0.0.6) experimental; urgency=low

  * Spelling changes.
  * Revamped download status display.
  * Call apt-get clean after successful install in dselect.
  * Added "apt-get clean" which deletes package files from /var/cache/apt

 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org>  Thu,  9 Apr 1998 15:13:59 -0400

apt (0.0.5) experimental; urgency=low

  * Ignore signals while dpkg is running so we don't leave dpkg running in
    the background (#20804)
  * Check Packages as well as Packages.gz for file URIs (#20784)
  * Spelling cleanup (#20800)
  * Added -m option to permit upgrade to go on in the case of a bad mirror.
    This option may result in incomplete upgrades when used with -f.

 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org>  Tue,  7 Apr 1998 12:40:29 -0400

apt (0.0.4) experimental; urgency=low

  * New usage guide.
  * Various documentation updates and cleanup.
  * Added '-f' option to apt-get attempt to fix broken dependancies.

 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org>  Sat,  4 Apr 1998 14:36:00 -0500

apt (0.0.3) experimental; urgency=low

  * Added a shlibs.local file to prevent apt from depending on itself.
  * Updates to how apt-get handles bad states in installed packages.
  * Updated rules to make sure build works from a freshly checked out source
    archive.  Building from CVS needs libtool/automake/autoconf, builds from
    the distributed source package should have no such dependancy.

 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org>  Fri,  3 Apr 1998 11:49:47 -0500

apt (0.0.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Updates to apt-get and http binding for dselect method (apt).
  * Updating version number from 0.0.1, which was released only on IRC.

 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org>  Fri,  3 Apr 1998 00:35:18 -0500

apt (0.0.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Initial Release.

 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org>  Tue, 31 Mar 1998 12:49:28 -0500