apt/cmdline, branch 2.7.11

Improve and test distclean implementation

2024-01-03T13:53:09Z

The implementation as-is as various smaller/esoteric bugs and inconsistencies like apt-get not supporting them, the option -s being supported in code but not accepted on the command line, the regex not escaping the dot before the file extension and exposing more implementation details to public headers than we actually need. Also comes with a small test case to ensure it actually works. References: bd7c126e3fb1b94e76e0e632c657cea854586844

Merge branch 'fix-959093' into 'main'

2023-12-08T13:14:07Z

Add 'dist-clean' command to remove packages and list files See merge request apt-team/apt!290

Add 'dist-clean' command to remove packages and list files

2023-11-22T10:05:28Z

We assume all files in the 'listsdir' are candidates. Keep only files ending with Release, Release.gpg, and InRelease. Closes: #959093

Use a more gitignore style matching

2023-02-27T13:44:12Z

Use a rightmost match for / so that if we end up with a Section: a/b/c, a 'c' matcher still matches. If the section does not contain any /, it can be matched using /pattern, e.g. /c only matches Section: c, but not Section: a/b/c.

Have values in Section config trees refer to them in all components

2023-01-29T23:55:05Z

Hard coding each and every component is not only boring but given that everyone is free to add or use more we end up in situations in which apt behaves differently for the same binary package just because metadata said it is in different components (e.g. non-free vs. non-free-firmware). It is also probably not what the casual user would expect. So we instead treat a value without a component as if it applies for all of them. The previous behaviour can be restored by prefixing the value with "/" as in the component is not defined. In an ideal world we would probably use "*/foo" for the new default instead of changing the behaviour for "foo", but it seems rather unlikely that the old behaviour is actually desired. All existing values were duplicated for all (previously) known components in Debian and Ubuntu.

improve `--help` text for cmdline `apt autoremove`

2022-12-13T11:10:02Z

Documentation for autopurge command

2022-10-28T18:36:16Z

Use pkgTagSection::Key in more places in src:apt

2022-04-01T12:16:19Z

The speed critical paths were converted earlier, but the remaining could benefit a tiny bit from this as well especially as we have the facility now available and can therefore brush up the code in various places in the process as well. Also takes the time to add the hidden Exists method advertised in the headers, but previously not implemented.

Warn if the legacy trusted.gpg keyring is used for verification

2022-02-22T17:25:06Z

With apt-key going away, people need to manage key files, rather than keys, so they need to know if any keys are in the legacy keyring.

Fix "was already not hold" message grammar

2022-01-24T18:46:34Z