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<title>apt/cmdline/apt-get.cc, branch 1.1.1</title>
<subtitle>Debians commandline package manager</subtitle>
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<updated>2015-11-04T17:04:05Z</updated>
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<title>revamp all tools help messages</title>
<updated>2015-11-04T17:04:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Kalnischkies</name>
<email>david@kalnischkies.de</email>
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<published>2015-10-27T08:57:26Z</published>
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The general idea is: A small paragraph on the tool itself as a
description, a list of the most used (!= all) commands available in the
tool, a remark where to find more information on the tool and its
commands (aka: in the manpage) and finally a common block referring to
even more manpages. In exchange options are completely omitted from the
output as well as deprecated or obscure commands. (Better) Information
about them is available in the manpages anyway and the few options which
were listed before were also the least interesting ones (-o -c -q and co
are hardly of interest for someone totally new looking to find info by
asking for help and anyone with a bit of experience doesn't need this
short list. Those would need a list of options applying to the command
they call, but they are too numerous and command specific to list them
sanely in this context.
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<entry>
<title>hidden support more apt-get/apt-cache commands in apt</title>
<updated>2015-11-04T17:04:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Kalnischkies</name>
<email>david@kalnischkies.de</email>
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<published>2015-10-26T18:30:44Z</published>
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apt is supposed to be a user-friendly interface, so while these commands
are usually poweruser material and therefore do not need to be shown in
general introduction manpages/help messages its of no use to not allow
users to use them.

This includes clean, autoclean, build-dep, source, download, changelog,
depends, rdepends and showsrc – it doesn't include more non-interactive
commands like dump or xvcg as those are usually used by scripts if at
all.

Closes: 778234, 780700, 781237
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<entry>
<title>deal with --version more centrally</title>
<updated>2015-11-04T17:04:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Kalnischkies</name>
<email>david@kalnischkies.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-26T15:50:21Z</published>
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Git-Dch: Ignore
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<entry>
<title>move apts cmdline helper type into -private</title>
<updated>2015-11-04T17:04:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Kalnischkies</name>
<email>david@kalnischkies.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-26T10:42:32Z</published>
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Its not as simple as I initially thought to abstract this enough to make
it globally usable, so lets not pollute global namespace with this for
now.

Git-Dch: Ignore
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<entry>
<title>generate commands array after config is loaded</title>
<updated>2015-11-04T17:04:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Kalnischkies</name>
<email>david@kalnischkies.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-25T22:45:09Z</published>
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This ensures that location strings loaded from a location specified via
configuration (Dir::Locale) effect the help messages for commands.

Git-Dch: Ignore
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<entry>
<title>new quiet level -qq for apt to hide progress output</title>
<updated>2015-11-04T17:04:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Kalnischkies</name>
<email>david@kalnischkies.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-25T11:35:00Z</published>
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-q is for logging and -qqq (old -qq) basically kills every output expect
errors, so there should be a way of declaring a middleground in which
the output of e.g. 'update' isn't as verbose, but still shows some
things. The test framework was actually making use of by accident as it
ignored the quiet level in output setup for apt before.
Eventually we should figure out some better quiet levels for all tools…
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<entry>
<title>deduplicate main methods</title>
<updated>2015-11-04T17:04:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Kalnischkies</name>
<email>david@kalnischkies.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-24T20:43:37Z</published>
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All mains pretty much do the same thing, so lets try a little harder to
move the common parts into -private to have the real differences more
visible.

Git-Dch: Ignore
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<entry>
<title>split up help messages for simpler reuse</title>
<updated>2015-11-04T17:04:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Kalnischkies</name>
<email>david@kalnischkies.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-22T14:28:54Z</published>
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That is one huge commit with busy work only: Help messages used to be
one big translateable string, which is a pain for translators and hard
to reuse for us. This change there 'explodes' this single string into
new string for each documented string trying hard to split up the
translated messages as well. This actually restores many translations as
previously adding a single command made all of the bug message fuzzy.
The splitup also highlighted that its easy to forget a line, duplicate
one and similar stuff.

Git-Dch: Ignore
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<entry>
<title>implement apt-get source msg 'Please use: $vcs' for git</title>
<updated>2015-09-14T13:22:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Kalnischkies</name>
<email>david@kalnischkies.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-12T08:15:52Z</published>
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A bit unfair that only Bzr had this message. Lets at least print it for
git as well with the option of adding more later without string changes.
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<entry>
<title>if file is inaccessible for _apt, disable privilege drop in acquire</title>
<updated>2015-08-31T09:00:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Kalnischkies</name>
<email>david@kalnischkies.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-31T09:00:12Z</published>
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We had a very similar method previously for our own private usage, but
with some generalisation we can move this check into the acquire system
proper so that all frontends profit from this compatibility change.

As we are disabling a security feature here a warning is issued and
frontends are advised to consider reworking their download logic if
possible.

Note that this is implemented as an all or nothing situation: We can't
just (not) drop privileges for a subset of the files in a fetcher, so in
case you have to download some files with and some without you need to
use two fetchers.
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