- on gpg verification failure warn and restore the last known
good state
- on failure display the IP of the server (useful for servers
that use round robin DNS)
- support Original-Maintainer in RewritePackageOrder
- enable cdrom autodetection via libudev by default
- show messsage about Vcs in use when apt-get source is run for
packages maintained in a Vcs
- better support transitional packages with mark auto-installed.
when the transitional package is in "oldlibs" the new package
is not marked auto installed (same is true for section
metapackages)
- provide new "deb mirror://archive.foo/mirrors.list sid main"
method expects a list of mirrors (generated on the server e.g.
via geoip) and will use that, including cycle on failure
- write apport crash file on package failure (disabled by default
on debian until apport is available)
- support mirror failure reporting (disabled by default on debian)
branch to prevent replay attacks better, thanks to Thomas Viehmann
for the initial patch! (Closes: #499897)
* doc/apt.conf.5.xml:
- document the new Valid-Until related options
* apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc:
- split StrToTime() into HTTP1.1 and FTP date parser methods and
use strptime() instead of some self-made scanf mangling
- use the portable timegm shown in his manpage instead of a strange
looking code copycat from wget
* ftparchive/writer.cc:
- add ValidTime option to generate a Valid-Until header in Release file
- switch {,Install-}Size to unsigned long long
- deal with long long, not with int to remove 2GB Limit (LP: #250909)
- deprecate AddSize with Multiplier as it is unused and switch to
boolean instead to handle the sizes more gracefully.
- switch i{Download,Usr}Size from double to (un)signed long long
* cmdline/apt-get.cc:
- use unsigned long long instead of double to store values it gets
- backport forgotten Valid-Until patch from the obsolete experimental
branch to prevent replay attacks better, thanks to Thomas Viehmann
for the initial patch! (Closes: #499897)
- switch i{Download,Usr}Size from double to (un)signed long long
The biggest reason is that this saves a lot of float point operations
we do in AddSizes() on integers. The only reason i see that this was
a double is that it was 64bit long and can therefore store bigger
values than int/long, but with the availablity of (un)signed long long
we are now also at 64bit and can store sizes more than 8 Exabytes big -
by the time this will be a limit the C/C++ Standard will have bigger types,
hopefully.
David Kalnischkies