The Debian APT team would like to announce the release of the latest version of APT, the next-generation packaging tool for Debian GNU/Linux, version 0.3.7!
This release fixes many bugs, and now APT supports downloading of the source to any Debian package! By running the command 'apt-get source packagename' APT will automatically fetch the original source .tar.gz and Debian .diff.gz patch and extract them into a directory. Now it's easy to build your own .deb packages from source without hunting through the FTP archives. Make sure to update your /etc/apt/source.list with a line like: deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free so APT knows how to download source. Here is a list of bugs fixed in APT 0.3.7: * Fixed missing text in the apt-get(8) page. Closes: #37596 * Made --simulate and friends work with apt-get source. Closes: #37597, #37656 * Fixed inclusion of man pages in the -doc/-dev package. Closes: #37633, #38651 * Fixed handling of the -q option with not-entirely integer arguments Closes: #37499 * Man page typo Closes: #37762 * Fixed parsing of the Source: line. Closes: #37679 * Dpkg/dpkg-hurd source bug. Closes: #38004, #38032 * Added a check for an empty cache directory. Closes: #37963 * Return a failure code if -d is given and packages fail to download. Closes: #38127 * Arranged for an ftp proxy specifing an http server to work. See the important note in the sources.list man page. * Accounted for resumed files in the cps calculation. Closes: #36787 * Deal with duplicate same version different packages. Closes: #30237 * Added --no-download. Closes: #38095 * Order of apt-cdrom dist detection. Closes: #38139 * Fix apt-cdrom chop handling and missing lines. Closes: #37276 * IPv6 http support * Suggests dpkg-dev for apt-get source. Closes: #38158 * Fixed typo in apt-get help. Closes: #38712 * Improved the error message in the case of broken held package. Closes: #38777 * Fixed handling of MD5 failures * Documented list notation Closes: #39008 * Change the 'b' to 'B'. Closes: #39007 -- Brought to you by the letters N and G and the number 1. "What's different, Pete, about the 69 that makes it so exciting to you?" Debian GNU/Linux maintainer of Gimp and GTK+ -- http://www.debian.org/