A new development/test release

[Panu Matilainen]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Vincent Danen wrote:

> * Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> [2006-09-07 00:58:16 +0300]:
>
>> To give you folks something new to play with while I pack my life into
>> cardboard boxes and move to a new apartment, here's a tarball of what's
>> been cooking in svn lately:
>> http://apt-rpm.org/testing/apt-0.5.15lorg3.90.tar.bz2
>>
>> For full details see the included Changelog but here are some highlights
>> of changes since lorg3.2:
>> - a big man page overhaul: docbook/sgml tools aren't needed for building
>> them and contents have been revised for apt-rpm (debianisms removed etc)
>> - fancy new progress meters during rpm transaction
>> - lots of code cleanups and reorganization (type correctness, old
>> obsolete code and various redundancies removed etc)
>> - some new operations in apt-cache and apt-shell
>> - big speed improvement in cache rebuild (~20% on my systems)
>> - build time options to disable repomd support (to avoid libxml2
>> dependency) and selinux support
>>
>> Known issues:
>> - Synaptic doesn't quite grok the new progress meter stuff, doesn't
>> crash but it looks ugly. Will fix before the next stable release.
>> - There are some changes that might have broken building with older rpm
>> systems. Let me know if there are regressions in that area, they are
>> certainly unintentional.
>>
>> Give it a whirl and let me know how it spins, but don't use in/package
>> for production yet :)
>
> Definitely sounds nice and I plan to give it a whirl this week but...
> out of curiousity, when are we going to get rid of the really off
> version number?  =)
>
> Could the next stable release perhaps use something a little more sane?
>
> Here's to hoping!

Heh, bad habits (and weird version numbers) die hard... Yeah, I'll 
consider switching to something saner for the next stable release :)

 	- Panu -