apt/cmdline, branch 2.7.5

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

Use short options for cmp

2021-11-26T14:33:06Z

In order to be consistent with other uses of cmp and to improve compatiblity with other implementations, like busybox one, change long options to short ones. Signed-off-by: Walter Lozano

Use `command -v` instead of `which`

2021-11-03T22:02:41Z

`which` has been deprecated in debianutils 5.0+. The recommended replacement, `command -v`, is mandated by Debian policy these days, in addition to being required by POSIX and its predecessor specs at least since 1994. Not found commands cause no output from `command -v` per POSIX, so remove the redundant 2>&1's while at it.

Inhibit autoremove calculation in apt-mark and apt show

2021-08-28T20:21:35Z

As we never display the information in these code paths there isn't a lot of point in calculating it first saving us some precious CPU cycles. References: d6f3458badf2cfea3ca7de7632ae31daff5742be