apt/apt-pkg/deb/debmetaindex.cc, branch 3.3.1

apt: funcs called with a string literal consisting of a single character

2026-04-08T08:37:24Z

Benchmark: - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62058906/why-my-performance-benchmark-gives-me-wrong-results References: - https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/performance/prefer-single-char-overloads.html

Implement architecture variants

2025-10-25T18:42:14Z

Architecture variants are children of an architecture that share the same ABI but are optimized for different ISA levels. They are available in Ubuntu 25.10 and newer, and not supported in Debian or other distributions. A deb built for a variant contains the Architecture-Variant field, and the Architecture field points to the baseline, for example: Architecture: amd64 Architecture-Variant: amd64v3 However, the apt-get indextargets command reports the variant in the Architecture: field, and most of the code in APT presents the variant as the architecture. There are two types of variants: 1. Standalone variants are recorded in the Architectures field of the Release file as if they were a real architecture: Architectures: amd64 amd64v3 Standalone architecture variants only fetch the standalone architecture variant's Packages file. To do this, this patch changes the code such that the variants indextargets "supplant" the base targets. This may have complicated outcomes on the apt-get indextargets command. 2. Other variants can only be identified by their files being recorded with hashes in the Release file. APT fetches both the base architecture's as well as the variant's Packages file. Variants are configured in the APT::Architecture-Variants list. Image builders may want to build specific variant images using APT::Architecture-Variants { "amd64v3"; } But this commit also implements an automatic discovery mechanism using the varianttable and /proc/cpuinfo. APT::Architecture-Variants "auto";

Add 'Include'/'Exclude' options to limit packages used from a repository

2025-05-19T15:19:23Z

'Include' allows limiting a repository to a allowlist of packages, 'Exclude' allows removing packages from a repository. Implementation wise this is not the nicest as it goes via the IndexTarget options, so we first parse our option value into a vector, then we turn the vector into a string, and then vectorize it again. That said, we support both "," and " " as separators due to the construction (we split by "," then we join using " "). Gbp-Dch: full

Remove leftovers of the apt-key removal

2025-01-05T22:16:09Z

References: a00fbbdb28cc31e78882301c2efe7218583ab4cb

Drop usage of macro APT_OVERRIDE for simple override

2025-01-05T22:16:08Z

We were rather inconsistent in using it and as our public headers contain deduction guides (a c++17 feature) it seems silly to try to hide a c++11 feature in a macro, so lets stop this charade and drop the macro and while we are changing all these lines lets apply [[nodiscard]] (another c++17 feature) and other suggestions from clang-tidy and formatting for a little more consistency.

apt-pkg/deb/debmetaindex.cc: prepare for APT::StringView -> std::string_view

2024-11-12T19:36:18Z

Do not return error if `Signed-By` value in source list is empty

2024-07-12T03:28:47Z

Signed-off-by: Aristo Chen

Delete SHADOWED metaIndex if we don't actually use snapshots

2024-02-20T17:50:14Z

This adds a bit more code but avoids any surprises later on by having both the shadowed and non-shadowed meta index in the list. Gbp-Dch: ignore

Automatically enable snapshots where supported

2024-02-20T17:50:14Z

Convert sources.list Snapshot option from opt-in to automatic. If we can find a snapshot server, Snapshot: yes is assumed if a snapshot is specified. On the implementation side, we record automatic snapshot enablement by adding a '?' suffix to the snapshot timestamp, if any is specified, this avoids introducing bugs into the code where we could end up with an empty snapshot. This has an annoying internal implementation caveat: Since we call GetDebReleaseIndexBy() with the SHADOWED option emplaced, if we do not find a server, we need to remove the SHADOWED option again, but we already have inserted a shadowed release index into the list. This will simply insert the release index a second time without the SHADOWED option which in preliminary testing works fine, but it would arguably be more correct to also remove the release index again if we have created it. FIXME: This only has one test case: A source with supported snapshot server is auto-discovered. We should also add a test case where we cannot detect a server and then don't fail in automatic mode.

Modernize standard library includes

2024-02-20T12:49:04Z

This was automated with sed and git-clang-format, and then I had to fix up the top of policy.cc by hand as git-clang-format accidentally indented it by two spaces.