Inching towards new release...

Panu Matilainen <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Mar 2006 03:06:25 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.conectiva.apt-rpm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Just uploaded a pre-version of next apt-rpm release:
http://laiskiainen.org/apt/testing/apt-0.5.15lorg3-pre1.tar.bz2

The repomd branch has now been merged to trunk and the repomd support is 
feature complete to the extent I have in mind for the initial release [1]. 
All functionality is supposed to be back in place both with old apt 
repositories and repomd and any mix-and-match combination of them, 
anything else is a bug that should be reported. Oh and it now understands 
repomd source repositories as well [2].

I'm expecting to do one or two more pre-releases to tidy things up a bit 
and shake out any remaining bugs (surely there are some), so now is a good 
time to put it to some heavyweight testing :)

[1] I'm not planning to add resolving file dependencies from filelists.xml 
to the initial repomd-support release.
[2] Repositories such as Fedora Core 2-4 release trees containing both 
binary and source information might cause some weird behavior when used as 
repomd-src and are best avoided, I'll hope to fix that for the final 
version.

 	- Panu -