2010
debdelta (0.39trl) unstable; urgency=high
* The real thing release: upload the real 0.39, not a damaged version;
* fixes: "debdelta _append_() wrong number of arguments", thanks to
cybjit (Closes: #585079) for noting.
-- A Mennucc1 <mennucc1@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:58:15 +0200
debdelta (0.39) unstable; urgency=low
* Reviewed messages printed (at different verbosity levels) .
* Inside the delta, the internal script uses shell pipes,
to reduce usage of temporary files .
* Set Homepage: http://debdelta.debian.net
* etc/sources.conf : use debdeltas.debian.net, thanks to Paul Wise
for the suggestion, and thanks to the Bononia people (Closes: #517942).
* xdelta3 (>= 0y) can use a FIFO for the input source (a.k.a
the old version of the file). When using '--delta-algo xdelta3'
the delta now, in its internal script, can process all old files
in one pipe, w/o using many chunks stored in temporary files. Such
deltas are marked by a new internal feature 'needs-xdelta3-fifo'.
This is disabled by '--disable-feature xdelta3-fifo'
* debdelta/debdeltas : store incomplete delta files as delta_tmp_ , are
renamed when they are completed (and tested, and signed, if required)
-- A Mennucc1 <mennucc1@debian.org> Fri, 03 Apr 2010 13:40:59 +0200
debdelta (0.38) unstable; urgency=low
* debdelta-upgrade :
- properly distinguish when prelink fails due to low disk space,
or simply because the file did not need to be unprelinked, or else
- small changes to progress reporting
- -v -d , prints the URI of missing deltas
* debdeltas : huge rewrite
- big speedup in scanning repositories, less disk access
- remove option --clean-alt
- add option --old (note that, if no '--old' arg is specified,
then no deltas will be generated; this is different from
previous versions of debdeltas)
- different meaning of --alt option
- rewrote man page, with many examples
* add new script /usr/share/debdelta/debmirror-deltas (a complex script
that creates a repository of deltas, that can be used by
debdelta-upgrade for upgrading packages in
lenny,squeeze,sid,experimental )
-- A Mennucc1 <mennucc1@debian.org> Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:27:24 +0100
debdelta (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
* debdelta-upgrade
* when < 50MB disk space, 'prelink -u' fails : report it
-- A Mennucc1 <mennucc1@debian.org> Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:15:08 +0100
2009
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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:47:44 +0200
2008
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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:10:53 +0100
2007
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 <debdev@tonelli.sns.it> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:26:07 +0200
2006
debdelta (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: append_info(delta,info,T) is wrong
thanks a lot to David (Closes: #386252).
-- A Mennucc1 <mennucc1@debian.org> Thu, 7 Sep 2006 20:49:22 +0200
debdelta (0.18) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* debdelta-upgrade : retries on httplib errors
-- A Mennucc1 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> 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 <mennucc1@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2006 19:19:54 +0200