debdelta (0.37) unstable; urgency=low * debdelta-upgrade * when < 50MB disk space, 'prelink -u' fails : report it -- A Mennucc1 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:15:08 +0100 debdelta (0.36) unstable; urgency=low * switch license of man pages to GNU Library General Public License (version 2) (same as the code), with permission of the author * patching : fix forensic report * debdelta-upgrade - better progress reporting - if '-v' , report info as apt-get does (Closes: #557780). -- A Mennucc1 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:17:11 +0100 debdelta (0.35) unstable; urgency=low * do not try to unprelink kernel modules (big speedup for kernel updates) * some adjustments to patching progress reports * Bug fix: HTTPResponse instance has no attribute 'message', thanks to Ritesh Raj Sarraf (Closes: #555038) * correct buglet when 'localepurge' is detected and a patch fails -- A Mennucc1 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:20:51 +0100 debdelta (0.34) unstable; urgency=low * FAQ, README , man pages , control : the file created by 'debdelta' is always called a 'delta' (before it was also called a 'debdelta' or a 'patch') * add references to CUPT in debian/control and man page (Closes: #551009). * debpatch.sh needs bash (Closes: #547744). * debpatch , debdelta-upgrade : report patching progress * debdelta-upgrade : - provide proxy support (see man page) (Closes: #551748). - download debs also from ftp debian archives (Closes: #472766) - better computation of download speeds (Closes: #463671). - properly print when a delta is too big and when it is not present, or other download error (but this does not work with http proxies) -- A Mennucc1 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:43:54 +0100 debdelta (0.33) unstable; urgency=low * debdelta-upgrade: add checks and bails out if localepurge has deleted files from the package * correct bug in parsing of /etc/debdelta/debdelta.conf : now sections match to the package name, not filename * debdelta: simplify deltas a bit * review the output of '-v' -- A Mennucc1 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:43:16 +0200 debdelta (0.32) unstable; urgency=low * debdeltas: add support for Packages.gz and Packages.bz2 . * debdeltas: add option --test (that does what '-d' was doing before) * debdelta,debdeltas: - add option --disable-feature , - and add document README.features explaining backward compatibility, - and correct some bugs in features handling. * Change Depends: lzma, xdelta, xdelta3, bsdiff to Recommends ('debpatch' and 'debdelta-upgrade' will ask if they are needed). * Fix exit status and document it in man page. * Fix -v and -d , and document '-d' better in man pages. * debpatch, debdelta-upgrade : if '-d' and a delta fails, create some files that may be used to address the bug. * Bug fix: "redownload package already in the cache", thanks to Sandro Tosi (Closes: #544784). -- A Mennucc1 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:29:06 +0200 debdelta (0.31) unstable; urgency=low * Add GPG signatures (YAY!!) * Update man pages to explain how to use signatures. * Add a README.upgrade document in /usr/share/doc/debdelta * Copy some useful stuff from contrib/ in /usr/share/debdelta : dpkg-sig : a version of dpkg-sig, patched to support debdelta signatures debmirror-delta-security : an example script to create deltas to upgrade from stable to stable-security debpatch.sh : a simple script that explains how debpatch works * Rearrange debian/rules * Correct some bugs in lzma support, but more testing is needed * debdelta : correct bug when the old deb contains data.tar.XX the new one contains data.tar.YY and XX != YY -- A Mennucc1 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:08:20 +0200 debdelta (0.30) unstable; urgency=low * Correct an indent in defining HOSTID * Bug fix: "[debdelta] debdelta-upgrade doesn't work with nobody user", thanks to Mert Dirik (Closes: #497967). * Bug fix: "os.popen2 deprecated in python2.6", thanks to Pär Andersson (Closes: #539911). -- A Mennucc1 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:10:04 +0200 debdelta (0.29) unstable; urgency=low * Really depend on 'binutils' (Closes: 511765) * Bug fix: "crash when /proc is not mounted", thanks to Paul Wise (Closes: #506383). * Use hashlib, not md5 module, in newer python, thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #537869). * Add support for lzma , thanks to Pär Andersson (Closes: #540005), (but it was not tested). -- A Mennucc1 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:09:02 +0200 debdelta (0.28) unstable; urgency=low * Depend on 'binutils' , 'bzip2' (Closes: 511765, 521670) * Support python-apt 0.7.10. Thanks a lot to Julian Andres Klode * debdelta-upgrade: select packages to upgrade, thanks to Nelson A. de Oliveira (Closes: #504423). -- A Mennucc1 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:47:44 +0200 debdelta (0.27) unstable; urgency=low * debpatch now can apply patches using data from installed version of a package also in hosts where prelink is used; and consequently debdelta-upgrade can upgrade such hosts. Thanks roman@khimov.ru. -- A Mennucc1 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:40:18 +0200 debdelta (0.26) unstable; urgency=low * rewrite internal DebDeltaError class to avoid problems with python 2.5; correct typo. -- A Mennucc1 Sat, 03 May 2008 19:21:31 +0200 debdelta (0.25) unstable; urgency=low * debdelta-upgrage: add an option --deb-policy to fine-tune download of .debs, thanks to Paul Wise (Closes: #465550). -- A Mennucc1 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:14:42 +0100 debdelta (0.24) unstable; urgency=low * some packages (notably, linux kernels) modify files that they install , and then patching from installed debs always fails; to avoid, I added /etc/debdelta/debdelta.conf , ~/.debdelta/debdelta.conf to configure which original files to skip/ship in debian packages * add support for bzip2 compression on data.tar -- A Mennucc1 Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:10:53 +0100 debdelta (0.23) unstable; urgency=low * If "python-apt" is missing, print a error message and exit; "python-apt" is recommended; thanks to David (Closes: #448688). * debpatch understands the keywords 'needs-xdelta' and 'needs-bsdiff' * debdeltas: 'Package' files may be used as arguments * debdeltas : can have multiple --alt options * option --delta-algo to try different binary encoders; thanks to "Jiří Paleček" (Closes: #435159). * There is now a repository of deltas for stable security (again hosted at bononia, thanks a lot zack). -- A Mennucc1 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:26:04 +0100 debdelta (0.22) unstable; urgency=medium * depends on xdelta3 , and correct path in python * document --delta-algo -- A Mennucc1 Tue, 26 Aug 2007 18:09:29 +0200 debdelta (0.21) unstable; urgency=medium * save header of minigzip output in patch script, since it changes in newer versions of zlib -- A Mennucc1 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:09:29 +0200 debdelta (0.20) unstable; urgency=low * added man pages. thanks Pierre-yves Jégou (Closes: 376598) * fix bug in name/len file matching when building debdeltas (debdelta would die of "division by zero" sometimes) -- A Mennucc1 Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:26:07 +0200 debdelta (0.19) unstable; urgency=low * Bug fix: append_info(delta,info,T) is wrong thanks a lot to David (Closes: #386252). -- A Mennucc1 Thu, 7 Sep 2006 20:49:22 +0200 debdelta (0.18) UNRELEASED; urgency=low * debdelta-upgrade : retries on httplib errors -- A Mennucc1 Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:18:24 +0200 debdelta (0.17) unstable; urgency=medium * debpatch : since 'echo -n -e' doesnt works with all shells , patch script will test for it * debdelta : use bash to run patch script (until #379227 is fixed ) -- A Mennucc1 Wed, 22 Jul 2006 22:15:51 +0200 debdelta (0.16) unstable; urgency=low * debdelta_upgrade - is faster (particularly on small debs - by avoiding calls to dpkg) - avoids downloading deltas if not enough disk space for applying them - identifies itself as User-Agent = 'Debian debdelta-upgrade' * md5 generation and verification may be disabled by option --no-md5 * now temporary directories are of the form ${TMPDIR}/debdeltaXXXXXX * better checking for exceptions -- A Mennucc1 Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:15:51 +0200 debdelta (0.15) unstable; urgency=low * debdelta : - faster on .debs with many many files ; - better behaviour when 'out of disk space' errors occour * debdeltas: - added '--alt DIR' option, to say where older versions of .debs are - added --clean-alt and --clean-deltas options * debdelta-upgrade: - if a delta fails, download the .deb - sources are in /etc/debdelta/sources.conf or ~/.debdelta/sources.conf * corrected many bugs -- A Mennucc1 Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:23:28 +0200 debdelta (0.14) unstable; urgency=low * debdeltas: can --clean unusable debdeltas * debdelta: corrected bug (cannot gunzip a symlink) -- A Mennucc1 Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:17:31 +0200 debdelta (0.13) unstable; urgency=low * debdelta_upgrade: thanks to Michael Vogt, now uses APT caches at best * debdelta & debpatch: many improvements - divide data.tar in small chunks - always use bsdiff (xdelta is buggy) - gunzip .gz files in data.tar before delta, and gzip after (the delta of debhelper 5.0.35 -> 5.0.36 was 80% of original .deb before, now it is to 10%) -- A Mennucc1 Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:03:16 +0200 debdelta (0.12) unstable; urgency=low * debdeltas: deltas failed due to not enough disk space will be retried * debdelta: better use of MD5; and a filename similarity matcher, when in computing difference of data.tar.gz (unfortunately, slower) also, solves a bug + debdelta_upgrade: properly quote URLs (before, it seemed as if a lot of deltas were not present in the archives!); better HTTP handling -- A Mennucc1 Fri, 9 Jun 2006 18:45:17 +0200 debdelta (0.11) unstable; urgency=low * debdelta: (by faking 2nd part of tar headers), some improvement for .deb with many small files * debdelta-upgrade : while the thread is patching, also download some .debs for which deltas are not available. -- A Mennucc1 Wed, 7 Jun 2006 16:07:36 +0200 debdelta (0.10) unstable; urgency=low * safer code * debdelta: produce shorter patch.sh, and uses bzip2 -- A Mennucc1 Thu, 1 Jun 2006 23:10:44 +0200 debdelta (0.9) unstable; urgency=low * debdeltas: '-n N' option, to decide how many deltas to compute for each package ; '--avoid file' option, to avoid packages from a dist ('file' is a Python database, that can be created with contrib/parse_dist ) * debdelta : corrected bug, now really skip conf files ! * debdeltas : corrected bug, was not exiting from forks ! -- A Mennucc1 Wed, 31 May 2006 14:13:39 +0200 debdelta (0.8) unstable; urgency=low * 'debdelta' can use MD5 to exploit identical files that were renamed. This can express the difference between tetex-doc 3.0-17 and 3.0-18 into 260kB , even though all the directory tree was moved around ! -- A Mennucc1 Tue, 30 May 2006 18:24:17 +0200 debdelta (0.7) unstable; urgency=low * 'debdelta-upgrade' uses a thread to patch and download at the same time -- A Mennucc1 Tue, 30 May 2006 12:16:44 +0200 debdelta (0.6) unstable; urgency=low * new program 'debdelta-upgrade' to download and apply deltas (from my mirror) -- A Mennucc1 Mon, 29 May 2006 16:16:40 +0200 debdelta (0.5) unstable; urgency=low * new program 'debdeltas' to scan archive of debs and create an archive of deltas * 'debpatch' works on installed version of old deb, even in case of dpkg diversions -- A Mennucc1 Sat, 27 May 2006 12:00:13 +0200 debdelta (0.4) unstable; urgency=low * 'debpatch' can use a delta to create the new .deb, even if the old debian package file is not available, provided that it is installed in the host * code cleanup -- A Mennucc1 Tue, 23 May 2006 15:59:08 +0200 debdelta (0.3) experimental; urgency=low * use bsdiff when memory does not exceed 50Mb, and free disk space is enough * ' debpatch --info patch' to just know info on a patch -- A Mennucc1 Mon, 22 May 2006 10:34:06 +0200 debdelta (0.2) experimental; urgency=low * Added getopt support. Reorganized code. * Be careful of cwd when using os.path.abspath. * Add parameters to patch.sh , in particular, support for '#unpack-old' keyword * Graduated verbosity. -- A Mennucc1 Sat, 20 May 2006 14:06:23 +0200 debdelta (0.1) experimental; urgency=low * first alpha * it works on two debs with gzip compression -- A Mennucc1 Fri, 19 May 2006 19:19:54 +0200