Skip to content

Changelog apt-offline (1.8.1)

2017

apt-offline (1.8.1) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Switch setuptools to invoke py3
   * No more argparse needed on py3
   * Fix genui.sh based on comments from pyqt mailing list
   * Bump version number to 1.8.1

apt-offline (1.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Switch to pybuild buildsystem to avoid needing pyversions.
     Thanks to Logan Rosen (Closes: #865292)

apt-offline (1.8.0) unstable; urgency=medium

   * New Major Release. Port to Python 3 and Py3Qt5
   * Update manapge to make the sequence of execution more obvious.
     Thanks to Sylvain Pelissier
   * Add python-debianbts to Recommends
   * Close MIME file handle and conserve precious memory
   * Point Vcs fields back to Alioth. Lots of debian tools use these
     fields and thus it is better to keep it within the Debian
     infrastructure
   * Update Homepage feild to Github
   * Add mailmap file to map old email addresses to correct new ones.
     Thanks to Paul Wise
   * Bump version to 1.8.0
   * Switch dependencies to Python 3

2016

apt-offline (1.7.2) unstable; urgency=medium

   * New Upstream Release
   * [e13def1] Fix manpage to make the example more explicit.
     Thanks to Daniel Thibault (Closes: #764248)

apt-offline (1.7.1.2) unstable; urgency=medium

   * [9ce8961] Use dpkg-maintscript-helper to handle obsolete conf files.
     Thanks to Paul Wise (Closes: 805518)
   * [30818a8] Update Standards Version to 3.9.8
   * [0d6956d] Bump debhelper compatibility to 9

apt-offline (1.7.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Add QT_X11_NO_MISHM=1 to workaround this Qt bug on Debian
     Hence, minor bump in version.
   * New Upstream Release
     (Closes: #815227, #784066, #784067, #787730, #787736)
     - Integration with PolicyKit
     - Better integration with apt gpg keyring
     - Resilient to failures when a sub-task errors out
     - New Feature: --changelog
       + This release adds the ability to deal with package changelogs
         ('set' command option: --generate-changelog) based on what is
         installed, extract changelog (Currently support with python-apt
         only) from downloaded packages and display them during
         installation ('install' command opiton: --skip-changelog, if
         you want to skip display of changelog)
     - New Option: --apt-backend
       + Users can now opt to choose an apt backend of their choice.
         Currently support: apt, apt-get (default) and python-apt

2015

apt-offline (1.7) unstable; urgency=medium

   * [7aacb1e] Don't abuse exception handlers.
     Thanks to R-Sommer
   * [d97a677] MIME type for a deb package.
     Thanks to R-Sommer
   * [77b6b46] Also include debian-archive-keyring.
     Thanks to Hans-Christoph Steiner (Closes: #748082)
   * [e2e40b2] Update MIME type for .gpg
   * [d02c881] Cycle through possible apt keyrings.
     Thanks to Paul Wise (Closes: #747163)
   * [bce9015] Port is data type integer.
     Thanks to Roland Sommer
   * [2a60f1c] autodetect release name
   * [165e3a4] Disable python-apt support
   * [c95e719] Handle scenarios where underneath file system is read-only
     (Closes: #776035)
   * [59264c3] Update progressbar for cachedir findings
   * [bd98544] Check if trusted.gpg is available
   * [dbf522d] promote magic to Depends
   * [5f881b9] Add .desktop file
   * [3b72482] Install .desktop file
   * [8134918] Use subprocess for gpg related tasks
   * [22ef65b] Improve __ExecSystemCmd to use subprocess
     Thanks to Bernd Dietzel
   * [366e7ce] Add xz to supported formats
   * [87258c0] Add dependency on python-lzma. Needed for compression
     type xz, which many archives are now supporting
   * [4f6d64e] Source package handling broke. This commit fixes it

apt-offline (1.6.1) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Upload to unstable

apt-offline (1.6) experimental; urgency=medium

   * [2a4a7f1] Don't abuse exception handlers.
     Thanks to R-Sommer
   * [afc51b3] MIME type for a deb package.
     Thanks to R-Sommer
   * [ec2d539] Also include debian-archive-keyring.
     Thanks to Hans-Christoph Steiner (Closes: #748082)
   * [dc602ac] Update MIME type for .gpg
   * [c4f9b71] Cycle through possible apt keyrings.
     Thanks to Paul Wise (Closes: #747163)
   * [de0fe4d] Clarify manpage for install
   * [b5e1075] Update manpage with some doc about argparse positional
     values to arguments
   * [c22d64d] Port is data type integer.
     Thanks to Roland Sommer
   * [67edebe] autodetect release name
   * [5803141] Disable python-apt support

2014

apt-offline (1.5) unstable; urgency=medium

   * New Major Release
   * [9b15df2] Add the new DebianBTS module based on SOAP interface
   * [b628801] Check if simulate is enabled before acquiring locks
   * [353519c] Common code for bug display list
   * [6ebe117] Add support for LZMA compression
   * [b9db6bc] Add Recommends for python-magic and python-soappy
   * [d9e8b28] Update copyright with new licenses

apt-offline (1.4) unstable; urgency=medium

   [ Ritesh Raj Sarraf ]
   * [320714a] Hard code the license in case it is not found by us
   * [e513eac] Provide ReleaseType to Upgrade() when requesting for
     upgradable packages (Closes: #700703)
   * [948d2b3] apt's commandline parser is more stricted now
   * [458d808] Update manpage.
     Thanks to Dev Rana
 
   [ Hans-Christoph Steiner ]
   * [1ad1073] bash completion script for apt-offline

2013

apt-offline (1.3.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Upload to unstable

apt-offline (1.3) experimental; urgency=low

   * New GUI Feature Release
   * [320714a] Hard code the license in case it is not found by us
   * [2a0be56] Add GUI Window support to browse through bug reports
   * [8eadbd9] Add support for downloads to directory also

2012

apt-offline (1.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * New Bugfix Release
   * [6b6c051] Remove non-existent unlink.
     Thanks to Michael Druckenmiller
   * [d98bd6b] Update manpage and correct argument positions.
     Thanks to Pawel Sadkowski (Closes: #647214)
   * [035a0b6] Fix gpg signature verfication (Closes: #664654)
   * [c42b435] Bump Standards Version to 3.9.3. No changes required.
   * [cb9140d] Fix typos in package description.
     Thanks to Erik Esterer (Closes: #644487)

2011

apt-offline (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * [ad257b7] Switch to dh_python2.
     Thanks to Julian Taylor (Closes: 631419)
   * [c09d819] Manpage spell-check fixes.
     Thanks to A. Costa (Closes: 624745)
   * [d871f89] Update Standards Version to 3.9.2. No changes required.

apt-offline (1.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New Bugfix Release (Closes: #593690, #615976)
     + Adds new feature for basic proxy support

apt-offline (1.0.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * cherry pick b35ef11d1d4b282f (Closes: #613617)
     Thanks to Julian Taylor for the report

apt-offline (1.0.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Reupload to sid

2010

apt-offline (1.0) experimental; urgency=low

   * New Feature Release
     + This release bring a new GUI tool for apt-offline. Kudos to
       Abhishek Mishra and Manish Sinha
   * Introduce the new apt-offline-gui package
   * Bump Standards Version to 3.9.1 (No changes required)

apt-offline (0.9.9squeeze3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fix checksum error for MD5 checksums

apt-offline (0.9.9squeeze2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Clean up the cruft that got carried into the source file

apt-offline (0.9.9squeeze1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Add less to Depends because we depend on `less` to display the
     bug reports
   * Check if argument is a directory. (Closes: #588908)

apt-offline (0.9.9) unstable; urgency=low

   * New Feature Release
     + Add support to cycle through all supported Packages.extension types
       (Closes: #583502)
     + Fix exception which downloading bug reports (Closes: #584427)

apt-offline (0.9.8) unstable; urgency=low

   * New Bug Fix Release
   * Change address to my official Debian address and remove the DMUA flag
   * Switch to 3.0 (native) source format

apt-offline (0.9.7) unstable; urgency=low

   * New Bug Fix Release
     + Allow release type to be specified when in the set operation, for
       an upgrade. (This is the equivalent of `apt-get -t unstable upgrade`)
     + Add new option --simulate (which replaces the old --test-windows option)
     + Do a check to ensure that the argument to the 'get' operation is a file
     + Fix APT/GPG security issues. When just running the 'set' operation, the
       apt gpg database gets invalid. Currently, fixed with a workaround. For
       more details, see DBTS: 565918
       Many thanks to Paul Nijjar for reporting the bug
   * Update Standards Version to 3.8.4 (No changes required)

apt-offline (0.9.6.1) unstable; urgency=low

   [ Ritesh Raj Sarraf ]
   * New Bug Fix Release
     + Show bug numbers correctly
     + Don't hardcode checksum type during checks
     + Check for APT's partial directory
     + Carefully update APT's Package cache data
     + Discard damaged downloads
     + Fix ZipFile.read()
     + Don't report download failure for Release.gpg files
     + Add html doc for the man page
   * Add DM-Upload field
 
   [ Y Giridhar Appaji Nag ]
   * Change Debian package version to 0.9.6.1 for Dm-Upload-Allowed: yes

2009

apt-offline (0.9.5) unstable; urgency=low

   * New Feature Release
     + Add support for source packages along with their Build Dependencies
     + Correct display count of remaining items to be downloaded
     + Many more bugfixes
   * Update package description. Thanks to Imran Ebrahim. (Closes: #550939)

apt-offline (0.9.4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Initial release (Closes: #531699)
   * Dedicated to my father Santosh Kumar Sarraf. We miss you Dad.