apt/doc, branch 2.9.0

Release 2.9.0

2024-04-12T18:26:02Z

apt: Introduce the new terse apt output format 3.0

2024-04-12T13:57:36Z

The key talking points here are: 1. Instead of long sentences, we use short concise messages, e.g. "The following NEW packages will be installed" becomes "Installing". 2. Dependencies are only listed once. We removed the "The following additional packages will be installed" section in favor of splitting up the "Installing" section into "Installing" and "Installing dependencies" (like dnf) 3. The order of the output is different: 1. Packages to be installed manually 2. Packages to be installed automatically 4. Weak dependencies of new packages not installed 3. Packages to be upgraded 4. Packages to be downgraded 5. Packages that have been kept back / are on hold 6. Removals 7. Essential removals i.e. we logically show you the action that is being done, followed by lists related to the action. 4. As requested by popey, we have colorful UI, with green for packages being installed and red for packages being removed. Caveats: - The list of recommends and suggests has not been updated yet, it should move to after the packages being installed (as they are what triggers them) This also introduces output format versioning, configured by the APT::Output-Format option. The default value is 0, except for the apt(8) binary where it is 30 - which enables the new style.

OpProgress: Erase lines when done

2024-04-12T13:57:05Z

It's interesting to the user to see the progress when it happens, but arguably once it's done it is just visual clutter, so let's not write newlines, and when we are done, instead of appending "Done", let's just empty the line. This requires some effort to keep apt-cdrom happy which just writes lines to stdout itself. Bad apt-cdrom. Maybe there is a better fix for it, but this gets us going.

Columnar output for package lists similar to 'ls'

2024-04-12T13:56:56Z

This change makes it a bit easier to quickly grasp the changes about to be performed by apt. It displays package lists in a columnar format by default, similar to what `ls` produces for files. A new long option `--no-list-columns` and an associated `APT::Get::List-Columns` config setting control the behavior. Usage example, with 60 column wide terminal: ``` $ sudo apt upgrade | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree... Done | Reading state information... Done | Calculating upgrade... Done | The following packages were automatically installed and are | no longer required: | libappindicator1 libindicator7 | libdbusmenu-gtk4 linux-image-5.14.0-4-amd64 | Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. | The following packages have been kept back: | criu linux-headers-amd64 nvidia-settings | libxnvctrl0 nvidia-modprobe xwayland | 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgrade| d. | ``` The effect becomes more pronounced with more packages (e.g. when doing a dist-upgrade).

Fix and unfuzzy previous VCG/Graphviz URI change

2024-03-30T16:54:32Z

The Graphviz change adapted only the msgstrs in the po files, which fuzzied all translations the moment the msgids were updated by the merge while forgetting fr.po and pl.po and in the VCG change the msgstr in the ja.po was missed. This commit "just" unfuzzies the strings (and fixes the missed ones) so the translators don't have to as intended in the commits. References: ae5c291b0c76b22c939679ccf35e3eb94131e586 edf1025e691e94cdde305bc2d15484fc7ee6db1c

Release 2.7.14

2024-03-22T10:15:33Z

Merge branch '1065831-apt_upgrade_documentation' into 'main'

2024-03-22T10:07:49Z

Update documentation for apt-get upgrade with pkg arg See merge request apt-team/apt!334

s#http://bugs.debian.org/src/#https://bugs.debian.org/src#

2024-03-14T19:02:47Z

Signed-off-by: Wesley Schwengle

Update VCG tool URI to new location

2024-03-14T18:37:55Z

Signed-off-by: Wesley Schwengle

Update Graphviz URL to https://graphviz.org/

2024-03-14T18:36:07Z

Signed-off-by: Wesley Schwengle