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Accepted dpkg 1.21.0 (source) into unstable



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Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2021 16:32:45 +0100
Source: dpkg
Architecture: source
Version: 1.21.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Closes: 582921 871420 940571 963087 980066 980527 980963 985401 985444 986103 989824 991190 993991 995387 996044 996959 999600 1000421 1000557
Changes:
 dpkg (1.21.0) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Guillem Jover ]
   * dpkg-genchanges: Include orig tarball on source package renames.
     Closes: #980066
   * scripts: Consider SHA-1 and RIPEMD-160 weak algorithms in OpenPGP
     signatures.
   * dpkg: During unpack print a removal message due to Conflicts.
     Closes: #985401
   * scripts: Add zsh completions for dpkg-parsechangelog.
     Thanks to Daniel Shahaf <danielsh@apache.org>. Closes: #986103
   * dpkg-buildpackage: When printing build type match the extension exactly.
     Closes: #989824
   * dpkg-maintscript-helper: Use xargs -I argument instead of deprecated -i.
   * dpkg-maintscript-helper: Quote variable inside ${} to avoid pattern match.
   * libdpkg: Fix dpkg_fsys_get_path() to always strip leading / and ./.
   * libdpkg: Set the default database directory relative to the system root.
   * dpkg-divert, dpkg-statoverride: Set admindir after instdir.
   * update-alternatives: Fix admindir setting.
     Prompted by Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@debian.org>.
   * dselect: Honor DPKG_ADMINDIR environment variable.
   * dpkg-query, dpkg-trigger, dselect: Add support for setting the root
     directory.
   * dpkg-fsys-usrunmess: Move forced reconfiguration to the last step.
     See #991190.
   * dpkg-fsys-usrunmess: Install a local policy-rc.d to ignore service
     restarts. Closes: #991190
   * dpkg-fsys-usrunmess: Do not fail when removing lingering directories.
   * dpkg-fsys-usrunmess: Generate a regression prevention package.
   * dpkg-fsys-usrunmess: Fix typo in debug message.
   * dpkg: Distinguish deconfiguration message for installation and multi-arch
     syncs.
   * dpkg-buildpackage: Add new --changes-file option.
     Prompted by Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>.
   * dpkg-buildpackage: Add new --buildinfo-file option.
   * dpkg: Rework --assert-<feature> logic to be more robust.
     Prompted by Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>.
     Prompted by David Kalnischkies <donkult@debian.org>.
   * dpkg: Improve --assert-<feature> descriptions.
   * dpkg: Add a new --assert-help option.
   * scripts/mk: Pass DEB_BUILD_PATH to dpkg-buildflags. See #985553.
   * dpkg-db-backup: New program factored out from Debian-specific daily cron.
   * dpkg-db-backup: Accept an option to override the number of rotation cycles.
   * dpkg-db-backup: Honor the admindir set at configure time.
   * update-alternatives: Fix --auto and --set-selections output progress.
   * update-alternatives: Print defaults for configuration and database
     pathnames.
   * scripts: Replace shebang in dpkg-error shell library with shellcheck
     directive.
   * dpkg-buildpackage: Add support for terse DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
   * dpkg-mergechangelogs: Add new --merge-unreleased option. Closes: #582921
   * dpkg: Restore fallback to "new-prerm failed-upgrade" for downgrades.
     Analysis by Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>. Closes: #996959
   * dselect: Use safe temporary file creation in methods setup.
   * dselect: Remove bashism from update script in multicd method.
   * dpkg: Fix --verify to handle missing or inaccessible pathnames.
     Closes: #963087
   * dpkg: Add partial --verify support for mode checks.
   * Use «digest» instead of «hash» in output messages.
     Reported by Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>.
   * dselect: use `grep -E` instead of `egrep`.
     Thanks to Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>. Closes: #999600
   * libdpkg: Fix memory leak on End Of Tape condition in tar parser.
   * dpkg: Fix short lived memory leak with --recursive.
   * dpkg: Fix conffile removal-on-upgrade handling. Closes: #995387
   * dpkg-deb: Fix conffile name length tracking on remove-on-upgrade parsing.
     Reported by uau on IRC.
   * Architecture support:
     - Clarify that the regex columns need to be ordered to match first.
     - Add support for ARCv2 CPU. Closes: #980963
       Based on a patch by Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com>.
   * Portability:
     - start-stop-daemon: Define SOCK_NONBLOCK to 0 if not defined.
     - libdpkg: Add support for AIX to dpkg_get_progname().
   * Perl modules:
     - Dpkg::Source::Quilt: Add hint to check missing files on patch apply
       failures.
       Reported by Joseph Nahmias <jello@debian.org>.
     - Dpkg::Changelog::Parse: Require format plugins to inherit from
       Dpkg::Changelog.
     - Dpkg::OpenPGP: Refactor openpgp implementation execution into a new
       function.
     - Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Refactor compiler flag names into an array.
     - Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Add new lto feature in new optimize area.
       Closes: #940571
     - Test::Dpkg: Print actual error messages in test_neutralize_checksums().
     - Dpkg::Deps: Use current_sub feature for __SUB__.
     - Dpkg::BuildFlags: Add support for ASFLAGS.
       See https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debhelper/-/merge_requests/50.
     - Dpkg::Compression: Use gzip --rsyncable unconditionally.
     - Dpkg::Changelog::Entry::Debian: Fix full month misuse warning.
     - Dpkg::Shlibs::Symbol: Emit a warning on fully qualified symver patterns.
       Closes: #993991
     - Dpkg::Control::HashCore: Add new keep_duplicate option.
     - Dpkg::Control::FieldsCore: Add new field_parse_binary_source().
       Closes: #980527
     - Dpkg::Control::FieldsCore: Fix types allowed for
       field_parse_binary_source().
       Reported by Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@debian.org>.
     - Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump: Fix apply_relocations to work with versioned
       symbols. Closes: #1000421
     - Dpkg::Vendor::Ubuntu: Update Maintainer field logic to include
       “canonical”. Based on a patch by
       William 'jawn-smith' Wilson <william.wilson@canonical.com>.
       Closes: #1000557
     - Dpkg::Source::Package::V2: Add hint about version matching source tree.
       Based on a patch by Samuel Henrique <samueloph@debian.org>.
       Closes: #996044
   * Documentation:
     - man: Itemize dpkg-gensymbols -c levels.
     - man: Add man page for deb-md5sums(5).
       Reported by Maxim Cournoyer (on IRC).
     - man: Switch the Architecture field in deb-control(5) to required.
       Reported by Maxim Cournoyer (on IRC).
     - man: Make clear that dpkg-query arguments accept multiple values.
       Prompted by Rémi Rampin <remirampin@gmail.com>. See #913781.
     - man: Document dpkg-query --search and --listfiles output formats.
     - doc: Fix incorrect use of ‘an’ article.
     - doc: Update coding style to document POD instead of troff.
     - doc: Update THANKS file.
     - doc: Annotate current maintainer start year.
     - doc: Sort maintenance information chronologically.
     - man: Add versions since features where introduced.
     - man: Further clarify when re-inclusions of excluded pathnames happen.
       Closes: #871420
     - doc: Update Doxygen configuration from version 1.9.1.
     - doc: Improve description of dpkg suite.
       Prompted by Fabrice Bauzac-Stehly <noon@mykolab.com>.
     - man: Add a reference to where the Installed-Size algorithm is described.
     - man: Improve dpkg --verify-format rpm format documentation.
     - man: Document in deb-substvars(5) what ${} is good for.
       Prompted by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>.
     - man: Document in dpkg-architecture(1) target being useful for emulators
       too. Prompted by Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>.
     - man: Document in dpkg-query(1) full --search and --listfiles output
       format. Prompted by Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@debian.org>.
   * Code internals:
     - Remove irrelevant or obsolete FIXME markers.
     - Turn FIXME markers denoting pending actions into TODO markers.
     - Turn FIXME markers giving historic information into simple Notes.
     - update-alternatives: Turn FIXME for explicit behavior choice into an XXX.
     - Use localtime_r() instead of localtime().
     - libdpkg: Remove MDEBUG support from m_malloc() implementation.
     - libdpkg: Mark dpkg_arch_unmark() arch_remove argument as const.
     - libdpkg: Mark treewalk_open() func argument as const.
     - dpkg: Mark ignore_depends() pkg argument as const.
     - dpkg: Mark deb_parse_conffiles() pkg argument as const.
     - libcompat: Remove local setexecfilecon() and require libselinux 2.3.
     - libdpkg: Add missing DPKG_{BEGIN,END}_DECLS in header files.
     - dpkg: Move SE Linux function declarations into its own header file.
     - dpkg: Move the command action enum to its own header file.
     - dpkg: Switch from including "main.h" to "force.h".
     - dselect: Rename dme() to display_menu_entry().
     - dpkg: Split function handling deconfiguration due to install and removal.
     - libdpkg: Add new ACTION_MUX macro for continued options.
     - dpkg: Refactor --assert-<feature> handling to be data driven.
     - dpkg-fsys-usrunmess: Do not use interpolated strings for literals.
     - dpkg-db-backup: Add a license header comment.
   * Build system:
     - Fallback to $^X and 'perl' if $Config{perlpath} is unset or empty.
     - Bump minimal Perl version to 5.28.1.
     - Remove redundant localedir and pkgconfdir initializations.
     - Check for libsocket.
     - Do not set have_libmd on the found branch in AC_SEARCH_LIBS.
     - Switch DPKG_FUNC_C99_SNPRINTF from AC_LANG_SOURCE to AC_LANG_PROGRAM.
     - Check whether fsync(3) works on directories.
     - Remove obsolete AC_HEADER_STDC.
     - Detect appropriate sed program at configure time.
     - Rename DPKG_DEB_PROG_TAR to DPKG_PROG_TAR.
     - Parametrize the backups directory with a configure option.
     - Add a check for symlinks in the git repository.
     - Rename shell scripts to .sh.
     - Switch from hardcoded /run to parametrized runstatedir.
     - Use new Dpkg::Control keep_duplicate option in gen-changelog.
     - Use title-case for field in gen-changelog.
     - Execute run-script via CONFIG_SHELL.
       Reported by Larkin Nickle <me@larbob.org>.
     - Quote variables containing pathnames in m4 macros.
     - Add support for commit message fix up machinery in gen-changelog.
   * Packaging:
     - Use absolute pathnames in .install debhelper fragments.
     - Remove unused dh_installcron call for arch-indep targets.
     - Add support for a native systemd timer. Closes: #985444
     - Create auotpkgtest installation directory.
     - Bump Standards-Version to 4.6.0 (no changes needed).
   * Test suite:
     - Pass --ignore-builtin-builddeps to dpkg-buildpackage.
     - Use can_run() instead of find_command().
     - Add descriptions to makefile test runners.
     - Add unit tests for architecture bijective mapping property.
     - Suppress cppcheck constParameter check.
     - Suppress bogus cppcheck for nullPointerRedundantCheck.
     - Mark external sourced shell files for checking.
     - Ignore new shellcheck checks.
     - Remove shipped dpkg database.
     - Add re-inclusion of symlink case to t-filtering. See #871420.
     - Generate symlink during test build time.
     - Remove superfluous long filename.
     - Refactor parse_ctrl() from parse_dsc().
     - Update codespell stopwords.
 .
   [ Helge Kreutzmann ]
   * deb-md5sums.pod: Fix typo.
 .
   [ Add programs translations ]
   * Occitan (Quentin PAGÈS).
 .
   [ Update dselect translations ]
   * German (Sven Joachim).
 .
   [ Update man pages translations ]
   * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
 .
   [ Update programs translations ]
   * German (Sven Joachim).
   * Polish (Marcin Owsiany, Łukasz Dulny).
 .
   [ Update scripts translations ]
   * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
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