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| author | Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com> | 2020-01-15 22:01:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com> | 2020-01-15 22:19:17 +0100 |
| commit | 21cb4a9e513ccb6f376fbcaf67957c4851cbbe32 (patch) | |
| tree | d18cb6cf693d955e8d4b38300981e23938b9f995 /debian/NEWS | |
| parent | 5db3a38926aa820546c411dd9f49f57eea24cd9e (diff) | |
apt(8): Disable regular expressions and fnmatch
This is the first step. Next step will be to add warnings to
apt-get and then remove support there as well.
Diffstat (limited to 'debian/NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/NEWS | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS index 46c1fcb16..8615cbf4e 100644 --- a/debian/NEWS +++ b/debian/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,16 @@ +apt (1.9.6) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + apt(8) no longer treats package names passed as regular expressions or fnmatch + expressions, requiring the use of patterns (apt-patterns(5)) to perform complex + searches. For ease of use, regular expressions starting with ^ or ending with + $ continue to work. + + This fixes the problem where e.g. g++ could mean either "the package g++" + or, if there is no g++ package, "all packages containing g". This change + will propagate to apt-* after the release of Debian bullseye. + + -- Julian Andres Klode <juliank@ubuntu.com> Wed, 15 Jan 2020 21:45:18 +0100 + apt (1.9.5) unstable; urgency=medium Credentials in apt_auth.conf(5) now only apply to https and tor+https |