apt/cmdline/apt-helper.cc, branch 1.2.3

support '-' and no parameter for stdin in apt-helper cat-file

2016-01-08T14:40:01Z

This way it works more similar to the compressor binaries, which we can relief in this way from their job in the test framework avoiding the need of adding e.g. liblz4-tool to the test dependencies.

apt-helper: cat-file: Add -C/--compress option

2016-01-07T14:51:00Z

This allows passing compressing the output. The compressor must be a compressor name, extension, or an extension without the leading dot.

apt-helper: Use CopyFile() for concatenating the files

2015-12-28T10:41:04Z

There's no point in keeping using yet another read-then-write loop. Gbp-Dch: ignore

apt-helper: Check that we can open stdout

2015-12-26T22:27:15Z

Gbp-Dch: ignore

apt-helper: Add a cat-file command for concatening files

2015-12-26T20:48:14Z

This can automatically handle compressed files and is useful for stuff like apt-file.

apt-helper.cc: include for atoi

2015-12-06T12:30:51Z

Include to ensure that atoi(3) is defined to improve general portability and fix a specific build failure on Android. Closes: 807031

drop some needlessly public declarations in libapt-private

2015-11-29T16:00:11Z

Git-Dch: Ignore

use function pointers instead of weak symbols for cmdline parsing

2015-11-29T12:12:38Z

Passing function pointers around while working on this was very icky, but if weak symbols are too much to ask for… Reverts "do not use "-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions" during the build to avoid breakage" aka a5fc9be36211a290a7abc3ca2a8bf98943bc1f57.

review of new/changed translatable program strings

2015-11-21T17:04:29Z

Reference mail: https://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-english/2015/11/msg00006.html

revamp all tools help messages

2015-11-04T17:04:05Z

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.