The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 14340213c8df6215708f6b1dd01d7dea4e58fd14
Author: Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org>
Date: Wed Apr 27 07:50:59 2011 +0200
dpkg: Remove --new and --old dpkg-deb option handling
These have been non-functional for a long time, and were being treated
as dpkg commands which would conflict with the dpkg-deb commands.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 57ff227..df6eceb 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ dpkg (1.16.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
Based on a patch by Christopher Baines <cbain...@gmail.com>.
* Document in dpkg-deb(1) that --fsys-tarfile will always process the
input archive sequentially. Closes: #616609
+ * Remove long non-functional --new and --old dpkg-deb option handling
+ from dpkg which were being treated as dpkg commands.
[ Updated man page translations ]
* German (Helge Kreutzmann).
diff --git a/man/dpkg.1 b/man/dpkg.1
index ce5e8a4..f0af1eb 100644
--- a/man/dpkg.1
+++ b/man/dpkg.1
@@ -482,10 +482,6 @@ Install a package even if it fails authenticity check.
Ignore dependency-checking for specified packages (actually, checking is
performed, but only warnings about conflicts are given, nothing else).
.TP
-\fB\-\-new\fP, \fB\-\-old\fP
-Select new or old binary package format. This is a \fBdpkg\-deb\fP(1)
-option.
-.TP
.B \-\-nocheck
Don't read or check contents of control file while building a package.
This is a \fBdpkg\-deb\fP(1) option.
diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index fef8e40..000e589 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -601,8 +601,6 @@ static const struct cmdinfo cmdinfos[]= {
ACTIONBACKEND( "info", 'I', BACKEND),
ACTIONBACKEND( "field", 'f', BACKEND),
ACTIONBACKEND( "extract", 'x', BACKEND),
- ACTIONBACKEND( "new", 0, BACKEND),
- ACTIONBACKEND( "old", 0, BACKEND),
ACTIONBACKEND( "vextract", 'X', BACKEND),
ACTIONBACKEND( "fsys-tarfile", 0, BACKEND),
{ NULL, 0, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0 }
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