apt-rpm 0.5.15lorg3.1 released!

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Mon May 22 08:36:46 PDT 2006


0.5.15lorg3.1 is out for grabbing:
http://apt-rpm.org/releases/apt-0.5.15lorg3.1.tar.bz2

This is mostly about bugfixes and improved repomd support over lorg3:

* full support for mixed binary + source repomd repositories
* support repository-level pinning on repomd repositories
* fix removing multilib packages
* fix off-by-one error causing first package of repositories to be ignored
* work around inconsistency from some old createrepo versions
* fix type-punning errors/warnings from rpm code
* treat zero epochs consistently everywhere (remove them) on newer rpm systems, 
  leave alone on older (<4.2.1)
* new scripts added to contrib: preserve-conf and apt-cron
* saner defaults for a few items (eg automatically ignore gpg-pubkey "packages" etc)
* fix building Synaptic against apt-rpm
* several auto*tool cleanups and fixes (Ralf Corsepius)
* update gettext to 0.14.5, require external intl (Ralf)
* improved handling of src.rpm names (Ralf)
* several code readability, safety and bug fixes (Ralf)
* updated German translation (Ralf)
* honor quiet mode in rpm progress reporting (Daisuke Suzuki)
* updated Japanese translation (Daisuke)


	- Panu -




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