[ubuntu/precise] dpkg 1.16.1ubuntu1 (Accepted)

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Fri Oct 14 14:16:48 UTC 2011


dpkg (1.16.1ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * Resynchronise with Debian.  Remaining changes:
    - Merge from git://git.debian.org/users/hertzog/dpkg.git
      pu/multiarch/full for multiarch support.
    - On upgrade from 1.16.0~ubuntu[1-3], if /var/lib/dpkg/info/$arch is a
      directory, migrate the contents to var/lib/dpkg/info; and handle the
      reverse on downgrade.  This does not handle metadata for packages of
      foreign architectures.
    - Add DPKG_UNTRANSLATED_MESSAGES environment check so that higher-level
      tools can get untranslated dpkg terminal log messages while at the
      same time having translated debconf prompts.  This is useful for tools
      that hide the dpkg terminal by default and use apport for bug
      reporting with the untranslated error message.
    - Add /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch as a conffile on amd64, so that
      users are guaranteed to always have it after upgrade even if they
      don't use update-manager for the upgrade itself.
  * Continue exporting compiler flags in dpkg-buildpackage, since we do not
    want to regress hardening support in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.  We will revisit
    this for Ubuntu 12.10.

dpkg (1.16.1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
  * Dpkg::Deps: Implement new "reset" method and bump module version to 1.01
    due to this.
  * Improved description of --search in dpkg-query(1). Closes: #621066
    Thanks to Lars Buitinck <larsmans at gmail.com> for the patch.
  * Let update-alternatives fsync() its administrative files before
    moving them in place to avoid empty files with some filesystems.
    LP: #344019
  * Tighten the regexp used by dpkg-source to ignore the .pc directory of
    quilt. Thanks to Mike Hommey for noticing the problem.
  * Change behaviour of dpkg-source's --extend-diff-ignore to also
    extend the current diff-ignore if it has already been set.
  * Fix dependency checking code to consider a dependency on a virtual
    package provided by a package in triggers-pending status as satisfied.
  * Do not fail when encountering a pre-dependency in triggers-awaited state,
    instead process the awaited triggers. Closes: #526774
  * "any" no longer hides "all" in the Architecture field of a .dsc.
  * Fix dpkg --remove to really remove the triggers from the various
    internal files in /var/lib/dpkg/info/triggers/. Closes: #525160
  * Avoid a perl warning in dpkg-gensymbols when no symbols file has been
    generated (because it would have been empty). Closes: #626684
  * Re-enable the Package-List field but drop the Architecture column since we
    have no clear use case yet. It can always be added later on.
    Also drop the source line since it duplicates other fields.
    Closes: #619131
  * Add the extraction part of Dpkg::Source::Package to the supported API.
    Useful to extract source packages without having to depend on dpkg-source
    (and hence dpkg-dev).
  * Add the Dpkg::Vendor module to the supported API. Useful for lintian
    when dpkg-dev is absent.
  * Check presence of required parameters in dpkg-vendor. Closes: #628726
    Thanks to Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net> for the patch.
  * Avoid a Perl warning in dpkg-buildflags when HOME is not set.
    Closes: #635467
  * dpkg-source can now also use debian/source/local-patch-header (that is not
    included in the generated source package) instead of
    debian/source/patch-header. Closes: #629582
  * Changed dpkg-source --after-build to automatically unapply patches that it
    has applied during --before-build.
  * Fix two possible causes for the assertion failure "pigp->trigpend_head".
    LP: #798793, #424358 Closes: #560251
  * Use "special" instead of "particular" to qualify the "3.0 (custom)" format
    in dpkg-source(1). Closes: #631435
  * Add some supplementary checks to ensure debian/control has the required
    fields. Closes: #631439
  * dpkg-gensymbols(1): document syntax of comments. Closes: #630996
  * Allow empty lines in symbols files to better delimit multiple libraries.
    Thanks to Cyril Brulebois <kibi at debian.org> for the patch.
  * dpkg: if "prerm upgrade" fails when downgrading, do not try to run
    "prerm failed-upgrade" with the prerm of the oldest prerm, it can't work
    around a bug of a newer prerm anyway.
  * dpkg: support new "interest-noawait" and "activate-noawait" trigger
    directives.
  * dpkg-buildflags(1): make it clear that DEB_*_(SET|APPEND) environment
    variables are meant for users and should not be used by packages.
  * update-alternatives: do not allow to reuse a slave link in another
    slave alternative. Closes: #631547
  * Improve dpkg-source's logic to identify ignored files. Closes: #632168
  * Fix a small typo in dpkg-source(1). Closes: #632937
  * Reword the description of dpkg-source --before-build and --after-build
    to be clearer. Closes: #608260
  * dpkg-buildpackage no longer exports the compiler flags. Closes: #560070
    Packages must directly call dpkg-buildflags to retrieve them.
  * dpkg-buildflags supports a prepend command to modify the build
    flags. Particularly useful for package maintainers who don't want
    their supplementary flags to take precedence over user submitted
    flags.
  * Add new --dump action to dpkg-buildflags and make it the default action.
    Closes: #603435
  * dpkg-mergechangelogs now checks the return value of the close() call.
    Thanks to Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net> for the patch. Closes: #633539
  * Similar changes to dpkg-shlibdeps and dpkg-gencontrol, also by Niels.
  * Fix update-alternatives to not remove a real file when dropping a
    symlink for a slave that's not provided by the new current choice.
    Closes: #633627
  * Improve dpkg-source's error message complaining about the lack
    of the upstream tarball. Closes: #634510
  * Add some common makefile snippets for use in rules files in
    /usr/share/dpkg/: default.mk, architecture.mk, buildflags.mk, pkg-info.mk,
    vendor.mk Closes: #606839
  * Fix the dpkg-divert test-suite to also skip test that would fail if run
    under root. Closes: #634961
  * Change merge conflict separators created by dpkg-mergechangelogs to match
    the usual norm of being composed of 7 characters. LP: #815700
  * With source format 2.0 and 3.0 (quilt), dpkg-source now fails by default
    when upstream changes have not been recorded in a quilt patch. The new
    --commit operation can be used to properly record the changes before-hand.
    LP: #797839
    And it fails before installing the automatic patch in debian/patches/
    Closes: #615899
  * dpkg-buildflags now supports "--export=configure" to output compilation
    flags on a single line with double quotes as delimiter of the various
    values. It also uses DEB_<flag>_MAINT_<op> to let the maintainer
    extend the build flags to use. Last but not least, it can now also strip
    options from the returned build flags.
  * Fix possible segfault of dpkg in findbreakcycle(). LP: #733414
  * dpkg-source now properly cleans up the temporary tarball generated for
    native formats in case of unexpected interruption. Closes: #631494
  * Fix simplification logic of union dependencies. Closes: #637564
  * Fix dpkg's handling of a hardlink pointing to a conffile. Closes: #638291
  * Add example of extend-diff-ignore's usage in dpkg-source(1).
    Closes: #640198
  * dpkg-buildflags now returns hardening flags by default. Closes: #489771
    They can be individually enabled/disabled via DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS,
    see dpkg-buildflags(1). Thanks to Kees Cook for his help.

  [ Guillem Jover ]
  * Install deb-src-control(5) man pages in dpkg-dev. Closes: #620520
  * Add ‘.gitmodules’ to the default dpkg-source ignore lists. Closes: #620490
  * Document in dpkg-query(1) man page that on --listfiles each list of
    files per package name is separated by a blank line. Same goes for
    --status and --print-avail.
  * Use execvp(3) unconditionally in command_exec(). Making the call always
    fallback to use the system shell in case of error, such as with empty
    maintainer scripts. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder at gmail.com>.
    Closes: #622094
  * Improve deb-split(5) format description by splitting debian-split
    member contents into a list.
  * Switch to debhelper compatibility level 7.
    - Use dh_prep instead of deprecated “dh_clean -k”.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2 (no changes needed).
  * Generate filenames following current conventions on “dpkg-split --join”,
    by including the architecture in the debian-split member of a split
    package and using underscores to separate filename parts.
  * Support conffiles with spaces when diffing them. Closes: #147583
  * Allow installing packages with bogus versions with new
    --force-bad-version.
  * Do not fail when unpacking a diverted hardlink. Closes: #245322
    Based on a patch by Christopher Baines <cbaines8 at gmail.com>.
  * Document in dpkg-deb(1) that --fsys-tarfile will always process the
    input archive sequentially. Closes: #616609
  * Remove long non-functional --new and --old dpkg-deb option handling
    from dpkg which were being treated as dpkg commands.
  * Remove reference to --nocheck dpkg-deb option from dpkg man page as
    the latter does not pass it to the former.
  * Clarify the current dpkg behaviour when running the dpkg-deb and
    dpkg-query back-ends, of not passing through back-end specific options
    when running them from dpkg. Closes: #610940
  * Use “unselected” as an adjective in dpkg output messages instead of
    “deselected”. Closes: #231089
  * Clarify exit status in dpkg-split and start-stop-daemon --help output.
  * Clarify “EXIT STATUS” section in man pages by using a table.
  * Add a --status command to start-stop-daemon returning LSB Init Script
    status action exit codes.
  * Add start-stop-daemon process name kernel limits for Solaris, NetBSD,
    OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Darwin.
  * On package removal, keep only directories actually containing conffiles,
    and not directories just matching the substring in the conffile or the
    directory itself. Thanks to Ondřej Surý <ondrej at debian.org>.
  * On purge correctly remove symlinks acting as directories, when they are
    not being used by any other package's files.
  * Do not lose track of parent directories on removal so that they can
    be properly cleaned up on purge if not used by any other package.
    Based on a patch by Ondřej Surý <ondrej at debian.org>. Closes: #454694
  * Add ‘.hgsigs’ to the default dpkg-source ignore lists.
    Based on a patch by Jakub Wilk <jwilk at debian.org>. Closes: #627462
  * Do not allow blank lines in field values. Closes: #308082
  * Do not warn on missing architecture on packages in config-files state,
    but then make sure the architecture field is usable. Closes: #604241
  * Run du with --apparent-size when generating the Installed-Size field in
    dpkg-gencontrol to get consistent results independent of build system.
    Thanks to Ludovic Brenta <ludovic at ludovic-brenta.org>. Closes: #630533
  * Do not fail to unpack shared directories missing on the file system
    from packages being replaced by other packages. Closes: #631808
  * Do not require programs to define thisname, provide two new functions
    to handle the program name (dpkg_set_progname and dpkg_get_progname).
    Closes: #631757
  * Man pages cleanup:
    - Rename “USAGE” dselect(1) section to “ACTIONS” and clarify they can
      be performed interactively or from command line.
    - Add missing built-in methods to dselect(1).
    - Add missing escaping to field dashes in deb-control(5).
    - Use dashes instead of underscores for variable text.
    - Clarify that several front-end fields are not dselect specific in
      dpkg-query(1).
    - Use [option...] instead of [options] and friends.
    - Use italics or bold instead of surrounding the text with <>.
    - Correctly format text with bold and italics.
    - Use minus signs and hyphens consistently in man pages.
    - Fix reference to /etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg.d instead of dpkg.cfg.d in
      dselect(1).
    - Add missing optional group|gid --chuid argument in start-stop-daemon(8).
  * Refer to Sources and Packages files as part of a repository instead of
    as being of exclusive use or owned by APT, which has never been the case.
  * Unify somewhat dpkg-maintscript-helper --help output with other commands.
  * Add build-indep and build-arch targets as aliases for build in
    debian/rules.
  * Use the perl interpreter found by configure to call dpkg-architecture.pl
    in the m4 DPKG_ARCHITECTURE macro.
  * Add new --verbose option to dpkg-deb and change --extract to honour it.
    Closes: #293280
  * Add new --raw-extract option to dpkg-deb combining --control and
    --extract. Closes: #552123
  * Defer hardlink renames so that there's never a point were the new
    file contents are accessible from the final path before they have
    been fsync()ed and cannot be executed causing ETXTBSY when trying
    to open the to be installed paths for writing.
    Thanks to Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder at gmail.com>. Closes: #635683
  * Clarify the default dpkg-deb compression-levels on the man page.
  * Clarify dpkg --update-avail usage error message. Closes: #628055
  * Change Dpkg::Compression default values depending on the compressor
    used, and as such dpkg-source inherits this functionality.
    Prompted by Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors at iki.fi>.
  * Print an actual error or warning message instead of assert()ing on
    readlink()/stat() size discrepancies. Closes: #639229
  * Update alternative links only if they change. This allows for a
    read-only file system and a writable database. Closes: #636700
    Based on a patch by Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil at debian.org>.
  * Fix double “error:” string in dpkg missing PATH error output.
    Closes: #639997
  * Do not warn on strange timestamps when unpacking with dpkg-deb.
    Closes: #640298
  * Reduce dpkg-trigger binary size by refactoring libdpkg modules so that
    it does not end up pulling triglib.
  * Reduce dpkg-deb binary size by refectoring libdpkg modules so that it
    does not end up pulling triglib.
  * Do not fail on --compare-version when generating parse warnings.
    Existing packages with invalid versions should not fail on their
    maintainer scripts due to that.
  * Use the user name (instead of the user id) when setting the supplementary
    groups in start-stop-daemon. Closes: #641834
  * Use --srcdir and --destdir po4a options, and bump Build-Depends version
    to 0.36.4.

  [ Updated dpkg translations ]
  * German (Sven Joachim). Closes: #620312
  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
  * French (Christian Perrier).

  [ Updated man page translations ]
  * French (Christian Perrier).
  * German (Helge Kreutzmann) including improvement by "Flo".
  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).

  [ Updated scripts translations ]
  * French (Christian Perrier, Sylvestre Ledru). Closes: #637096
  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).

Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:01:55 +0100
Changed-By: Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+source/dpkg/1.16.1ubuntu1
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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:01:55 +0100
Source: dpkg
Binary: libdpkg-dev dpkg dpkg-dev libdpkg-perl dselect
Architecture: source
Version: 1.16.1ubuntu1
Distribution: precise
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Changed-By: Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>
Description: 
 dpkg       - Debian package management system
 dpkg-dev   - Debian package development tools
 dselect    - Debian package management front-end
 libdpkg-dev - Debian package management static library
 libdpkg-perl - Dpkg perl modules
Closes: 147583 231089 245322 293280 308082 454694 489771 525160 526774 552123 560070 560251 603435 604241 606839 608260 610940 615899 616609 619131 620312 620490 620520 621066 622094 626684 627462 628055 628726 629582 630533 630996 631435 631439 631494 631547 631757 631808 632168 632937 633539 633627 634510 634961 635467 635683 636700 637096 637564 638291 639229 639997 640198 640298 641834
Launchpad-Bugs-Fixed: 344019 424358 733414 797839 798793 815700
Changes: 
 dpkg (1.16.1ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low
 .
   * Resynchronise with Debian.  Remaining changes:
     - Merge from git://git.debian.org/users/hertzog/dpkg.git
       pu/multiarch/full for multiarch support.
     - On upgrade from 1.16.0~ubuntu[1-3], if /var/lib/dpkg/info/$arch is a
       directory, migrate the contents to var/lib/dpkg/info; and handle the
       reverse on downgrade.  This does not handle metadata for packages of
       foreign architectures.
     - Add DPKG_UNTRANSLATED_MESSAGES environment check so that higher-level
       tools can get untranslated dpkg terminal log messages while at the
       same time having translated debconf prompts.  This is useful for tools
       that hide the dpkg terminal by default and use apport for bug
       reporting with the untranslated error message.
     - Add /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch as a conffile on amd64, so that
       users are guaranteed to always have it after upgrade even if they
       don't use update-manager for the upgrade itself.
   * Continue exporting compiler flags in dpkg-buildpackage, since we do not
     want to regress hardening support in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.  We will revisit
     this for Ubuntu 12.10.
 .
 dpkg (1.16.1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
   * Dpkg::Deps: Implement new "reset" method and bump module version to 1.01
     due to this.
   * Improved description of --search in dpkg-query(1). Closes: #621066
     Thanks to Lars Buitinck <larsmans at gmail.com> for the patch.
   * Let update-alternatives fsync() its administrative files before
     moving them in place to avoid empty files with some filesystems.
     LP: #344019
   * Tighten the regexp used by dpkg-source to ignore the .pc directory of
     quilt. Thanks to Mike Hommey for noticing the problem.
   * Change behaviour of dpkg-source's --extend-diff-ignore to also
     extend the current diff-ignore if it has already been set.
   * Fix dependency checking code to consider a dependency on a virtual
     package provided by a package in triggers-pending status as satisfied.
   * Do not fail when encountering a pre-dependency in triggers-awaited state,
     instead process the awaited triggers. Closes: #526774
   * "any" no longer hides "all" in the Architecture field of a .dsc.
   * Fix dpkg --remove to really remove the triggers from the various
     internal files in /var/lib/dpkg/info/triggers/. Closes: #525160
   * Avoid a perl warning in dpkg-gensymbols when no symbols file has been
     generated (because it would have been empty). Closes: #626684
   * Re-enable the Package-List field but drop the Architecture column since we
     have no clear use case yet. It can always be added later on.
     Also drop the source line since it duplicates other fields.
     Closes: #619131
   * Add the extraction part of Dpkg::Source::Package to the supported API.
     Useful to extract source packages without having to depend on dpkg-source
     (and hence dpkg-dev).
   * Add the Dpkg::Vendor module to the supported API. Useful for lintian
     when dpkg-dev is absent.
   * Check presence of required parameters in dpkg-vendor. Closes: #628726
     Thanks to Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net> for the patch.
   * Avoid a Perl warning in dpkg-buildflags when HOME is not set.
     Closes: #635467
   * dpkg-source can now also use debian/source/local-patch-header (that is not
     included in the generated source package) instead of
     debian/source/patch-header. Closes: #629582
   * Changed dpkg-source --after-build to automatically unapply patches that it
     has applied during --before-build.
   * Fix two possible causes for the assertion failure "pigp->trigpend_head".
     LP: #798793, #424358 Closes: #560251
   * Use "special" instead of "particular" to qualify the "3.0 (custom)" format
     in dpkg-source(1). Closes: #631435
   * Add some supplementary checks to ensure debian/control has the required
     fields. Closes: #631439
   * dpkg-gensymbols(1): document syntax of comments. Closes: #630996
   * Allow empty lines in symbols files to better delimit multiple libraries.
     Thanks to Cyril Brulebois <kibi at debian.org> for the patch.
   * dpkg: if "prerm upgrade" fails when downgrading, do not try to run
     "prerm failed-upgrade" with the prerm of the oldest prerm, it can't work
     around a bug of a newer prerm anyway.
   * dpkg: support new "interest-noawait" and "activate-noawait" trigger
     directives.
   * dpkg-buildflags(1): make it clear that DEB_*_(SET|APPEND) environment
     variables are meant for users and should not be used by packages.
   * update-alternatives: do not allow to reuse a slave link in another
     slave alternative. Closes: #631547
   * Improve dpkg-source's logic to identify ignored files. Closes: #632168
   * Fix a small typo in dpkg-source(1). Closes: #632937
   * Reword the description of dpkg-source --before-build and --after-build
     to be clearer. Closes: #608260
   * dpkg-buildpackage no longer exports the compiler flags. Closes: #560070
     Packages must directly call dpkg-buildflags to retrieve them.
   * dpkg-buildflags supports a prepend command to modify the build
     flags. Particularly useful for package maintainers who don't want
     their supplementary flags to take precedence over user submitted
     flags.
   * Add new --dump action to dpkg-buildflags and make it the default action.
     Closes: #603435
   * dpkg-mergechangelogs now checks the return value of the close() call.
     Thanks to Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net> for the patch. Closes: #633539
   * Similar changes to dpkg-shlibdeps and dpkg-gencontrol, also by Niels.
   * Fix update-alternatives to not remove a real file when dropping a
     symlink for a slave that's not provided by the new current choice.
     Closes: #633627
   * Improve dpkg-source's error message complaining about the lack
     of the upstream tarball. Closes: #634510
   * Add some common makefile snippets for use in rules files in
     /usr/share/dpkg/: default.mk, architecture.mk, buildflags.mk, pkg-info.mk,
     vendor.mk Closes: #606839
   * Fix the dpkg-divert test-suite to also skip test that would fail if run
     under root. Closes: #634961
   * Change merge conflict separators created by dpkg-mergechangelogs to match
     the usual norm of being composed of 7 characters. LP: #815700
   * With source format 2.0 and 3.0 (quilt), dpkg-source now fails by default
     when upstream changes have not been recorded in a quilt patch. The new
     --commit operation can be used to properly record the changes before-hand.
     LP: #797839
     And it fails before installing the automatic patch in debian/patches/
     Closes: #615899
   * dpkg-buildflags now supports "--export=configure" to output compilation
     flags on a single line with double quotes as delimiter of the various
     values. It also uses DEB_<flag>_MAINT_<op> to let the maintainer
     extend the build flags to use. Last but not least, it can now also strip
     options from the returned build flags.
   * Fix possible segfault of dpkg in findbreakcycle(). LP: #733414
   * dpkg-source now properly cleans up the temporary tarball generated for
     native formats in case of unexpected interruption. Closes: #631494
   * Fix simplification logic of union dependencies. Closes: #637564
   * Fix dpkg's handling of a hardlink pointing to a conffile. Closes: #638291
   * Add example of extend-diff-ignore's usage in dpkg-source(1).
     Closes: #640198
   * dpkg-buildflags now returns hardening flags by default. Closes: #489771
     They can be individually enabled/disabled via DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS,
     see dpkg-buildflags(1). Thanks to Kees Cook for his help.
 .
   [ Guillem Jover ]
   * Install deb-src-control(5) man pages in dpkg-dev. Closes: #620520
   * Add ‘.gitmodules’ to the default dpkg-source ignore lists. Closes: #620490
   * Document in dpkg-query(1) man page that on --listfiles each list of
     files per package name is separated by a blank line. Same goes for
     --status and --print-avail.
   * Use execvp(3) unconditionally in command_exec(). Making the call always
     fallback to use the system shell in case of error, such as with empty
     maintainer scripts. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder at gmail.com>.
     Closes: #622094
   * Improve deb-split(5) format description by splitting debian-split
     member contents into a list.
   * Switch to debhelper compatibility level 7.
     - Use dh_prep instead of deprecated “dh_clean -k”.
   * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2 (no changes needed).
   * Generate filenames following current conventions on “dpkg-split --join”,
     by including the architecture in the debian-split member of a split
     package and using underscores to separate filename parts.
   * Support conffiles with spaces when diffing them. Closes: #147583
   * Allow installing packages with bogus versions with new
     --force-bad-version.
   * Do not fail when unpacking a diverted hardlink. Closes: #245322
     Based on a patch by Christopher Baines <cbaines8 at gmail.com>.
   * Document in dpkg-deb(1) that --fsys-tarfile will always process the
     input archive sequentially. Closes: #616609
   * Remove long non-functional --new and --old dpkg-deb option handling
     from dpkg which were being treated as dpkg commands.
   * Remove reference to --nocheck dpkg-deb option from dpkg man page as
     the latter does not pass it to the former.
   * Clarify the current dpkg behaviour when running the dpkg-deb and
     dpkg-query back-ends, of not passing through back-end specific options
     when running them from dpkg. Closes: #610940
   * Use “unselected” as an adjective in dpkg output messages instead of
     “deselected”. Closes: #231089
   * Clarify exit status in dpkg-split and start-stop-daemon --help output.
   * Clarify “EXIT STATUS” section in man pages by using a table.
   * Add a --status command to start-stop-daemon returning LSB Init Script
     status action exit codes.
   * Add start-stop-daemon process name kernel limits for Solaris, NetBSD,
     OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Darwin.
   * On package removal, keep only directories actually containing conffiles,
     and not directories just matching the substring in the conffile or the
     directory itself. Thanks to Ondřej Surý <ondrej at debian.org>.
   * On purge correctly remove symlinks acting as directories, when they are
     not being used by any other package's files.
   * Do not lose track of parent directories on removal so that they can
     be properly cleaned up on purge if not used by any other package.
     Based on a patch by Ondřej Surý <ondrej at debian.org>. Closes: #454694
   * Add ‘.hgsigs’ to the default dpkg-source ignore lists.
     Based on a patch by Jakub Wilk <jwilk at debian.org>. Closes: #627462
   * Do not allow blank lines in field values. Closes: #308082
   * Do not warn on missing architecture on packages in config-files state,
     but then make sure the architecture field is usable. Closes: #604241
   * Run du with --apparent-size when generating the Installed-Size field in
     dpkg-gencontrol to get consistent results independent of build system.
     Thanks to Ludovic Brenta <ludovic at ludovic-brenta.org>. Closes: #630533
   * Do not fail to unpack shared directories missing on the file system
     from packages being replaced by other packages. Closes: #631808
   * Do not require programs to define thisname, provide two new functions
     to handle the program name (dpkg_set_progname and dpkg_get_progname).
     Closes: #631757
   * Man pages cleanup:
     - Rename “USAGE” dselect(1) section to “ACTIONS” and clarify they can
       be performed interactively or from command line.
     - Add missing built-in methods to dselect(1).
     - Add missing escaping to field dashes in deb-control(5).
     - Use dashes instead of underscores for variable text.
     - Clarify that several front-end fields are not dselect specific in
       dpkg-query(1).
     - Use [option...] instead of [options] and friends.
     - Use italics or bold instead of surrounding the text with <>.
     - Correctly format text with bold and italics.
     - Use minus signs and hyphens consistently in man pages.
     - Fix reference to /etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg.d instead of dpkg.cfg.d in
       dselect(1).
     - Add missing optional group|gid --chuid argument in start-stop-daemon(8).
   * Refer to Sources and Packages files as part of a repository instead of
     as being of exclusive use or owned by APT, which has never been the case.
   * Unify somewhat dpkg-maintscript-helper --help output with other commands.
   * Add build-indep and build-arch targets as aliases for build in
     debian/rules.
   * Use the perl interpreter found by configure to call dpkg-architecture.pl
     in the m4 DPKG_ARCHITECTURE macro.
   * Add new --verbose option to dpkg-deb and change --extract to honour it.
     Closes: #293280
   * Add new --raw-extract option to dpkg-deb combining --control and
     --extract. Closes: #552123
   * Defer hardlink renames so that there's never a point were the new
     file contents are accessible from the final path before they have
     been fsync()ed and cannot be executed causing ETXTBSY when trying
     to open the to be installed paths for writing.
     Thanks to Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder at gmail.com>. Closes: #635683
   * Clarify the default dpkg-deb compression-levels on the man page.
   * Clarify dpkg --update-avail usage error message. Closes: #628055
   * Change Dpkg::Compression default values depending on the compressor
     used, and as such dpkg-source inherits this functionality.
     Prompted by Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors at iki.fi>.
   * Print an actual error or warning message instead of assert()ing on
     readlink()/stat() size discrepancies. Closes: #639229
   * Update alternative links only if they change. This allows for a
     read-only file system and a writable database. Closes: #636700
     Based on a patch by Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil at debian.org>.
   * Fix double “error:” string in dpkg missing PATH error output.
     Closes: #639997
   * Do not warn on strange timestamps when unpacking with dpkg-deb.
     Closes: #640298
   * Reduce dpkg-trigger binary size by refactoring libdpkg modules so that
     it does not end up pulling triglib.
   * Reduce dpkg-deb binary size by refectoring libdpkg modules so that it
     does not end up pulling triglib.
   * Do not fail on --compare-version when generating parse warnings.
     Existing packages with invalid versions should not fail on their
     maintainer scripts due to that.
   * Use the user name (instead of the user id) when setting the supplementary
     groups in start-stop-daemon. Closes: #641834
   * Use --srcdir and --destdir po4a options, and bump Build-Depends version
     to 0.36.4.
 .
   [ Updated dpkg translations ]
   * German (Sven Joachim). Closes: #620312
   * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
   * French (Christian Perrier).
 .
   [ Updated man page translations ]
   * French (Christian Perrier).
   * German (Helge Kreutzmann) including improvement by "Flo".
   * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
 .
   [ Updated scripts translations ]
   * French (Christian Perrier, Sylvestre Ledru). Closes: #637096
   * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
   * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
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