-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2026 23:55:19 +0200 Source: dpkg Architecture: source Version: 1.23.8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> Closes: 931094 1054552 1088758 1099097 1126502 1127394 1130119 1130536 1130980 1131211 1131556 1132051 1132541 1132542 1133272 1137545 1139332 1139334 1140613 1140788 1142100 1144781 1145181 1147121 Changes: dpkg (1.23.8) unstable; urgency=medium . [ Guillem Jover ] * dpkg-maintscript-helper: Move version comparison after its argument check. * dpkg: Translate --assert feature description on failure message. * dpkg-gencontrol: Remove and warn about Multi-Arch field on udeb packages. See #1136160. * dpkg-buildpackage: Check that the OpenPGP key ID has a known length. * dpkg-buildpackage: Deprecate --sign-key as an alias for --sign-keyid. * dpkg-deb: Do not fail on non-seekable archives. Closes: #1132051 * dpkg: Do not filter not-installed packages from --get-selections. * dpkg-buildpackage: Fix syserr() function name in call site. * dpkg-buildpackage: Remove temporary *.dsc.asc file before and after signing. Closes: #1140788 * start-stop-daemon: Add new --pidof command to print the PIDs found. See #810018. * start-stop-daemon: Force line buffering for stdout in --start. Closes: #1099097 * dpkg-buildpackage: Parametrize default and supported source compressors. Prompted by John Scott <jscott@posteo.net>. * dpkg-source: Mark --help dynamic section strings for translation. * dpkg-name: Fix --subdir with a non-existent directory argument. * dpkg-query: Determine the minimum --list column width from the titles. * dpkg-query: Make --list title separator fill up to the terminal width. * dpkg-query: Improve --list column padding. * dpkg-name: Add support for non-free-firmware package section. * Fix memory leaks on file_slurp() failures for ENOENT. * dpkg: Fix memory leaks for varbufs during conffile upgrade handling. * dpkg: Deprecate --yet-to-unpack. * dpkg: Simplify --yet-to-unpack after deprecation. * dpkg-scanpackages: Parametrize command names for system errors messages. * dpkg-buildpackage: Remove obsolete no-op -s(gpg|pgp) option. * Output messages: - Remove anachronistic two space sentence separation in output messages. - Avoid "please" and "thanks" in output messages. - Avoid "you" or "your" on output messages unless prompting for something. - dpkg: Switch --assert output message into a notice() and hint(). - dpkg: Say "package distributor" instead of "package maintainer" for conffiles. - dpkg: Clarify that the modified conffile has been done locally. - dselect: Decapitalize warning and error messages. - dselect: Remove trailing newline from error message. - Standardize error/warning messages on "cannot ...". - Improve "unexpected end of file" error messages. - Avoid "the" when unnecessary in error output messages. - start-stop-daemon: Reword pselect() error message. - Use "reap" instead of "wait" in subprocess error messages. - Improve subprocess error messages. - Use "refresh window" instead of "doupdate" in output message. - Use "set/unset buffering for" for setvbuf error messages. - Use "execute" instead of "exec" in output messages. - Use "invalid syntax ..." instead of "syntax error" in error messages. - Use "symbolic link" instead of "symlink"/"link" in output messages. - Use "create directory" instead of "mkdir" in output messages. - Use "change directory" instead of "chdir" in output messages. - Use "change root directory" instead of "chroot" in output messages. - Use "set ownership" instead of "chown" in output messages. - Use "set environment" instead of "setenv" in output messages. - Use "open directory" instead of "opendir"/"read" in output messages. - Use "scan directory" for scandir() error messages. - Use "get current time" instead of the function name in output messages. - Use "create child process" instead of "fork" in output messages. - Use "sync" instead of "fsync" in output messages. - Use "initialize user groups" instead of "initgroups()" in output message. - Use "get input character" for prompt errors in output messages. - Use "libraries" instead of "libs" in output messages. - Use "parse file" instead of "eval" in output messages. - Improve file descriptor related output messages. - Use "press" instead of "hit"/"use" for keyboard keys in output messages. - dpkg-gencontrol: Clarify package type in warning message. - Use "substvars file" instead of "varlist file" in error message. - Say "<standard input|output|error>" instead of "stdin|stdout|stderr". - dpkg-source: Separate supported compressors in --help with a comma and space. - dpkg-deb: Print directory pathname instead of nothing or "directory". - Avoid using "my" in output messages. - Use present form for "contains" in error messages. - Clarify status-fd error message. - Clarify very confusing "un-catch signal" error message. - Clarify error message about removing directory with 'rm -rf'. - Clarify error message about checking a file within a writable directory. - Clarify error message about not being able to remove a directory. - Do not print filename as error condition in error message. - dpkg-genchanges: Add --build aliases for short options to --help output. - Remove spaces before some repetition markers ("...") in --help output. - dpkg: Refactor archive-spec and package-spec for --help commands. - start-stop-daemon: Reword match options to say "match" instead of "check". - start-stop-daemon: Use "change root" instead of "chroot" in --help output. - dpkg-shlibdeps: Make -e description in --help output stand on its own. - dpkg-gencontrol: Remove deprecated -is/-ip/-isp/-ips from --help output. - Capitalize all option descriptions in --help output. Closes: #1088758 - dpkg: Split --no-act aliases into their own lines in --help output. Closes: #1137545 - Standardize command line option help messages. - Surround replaceable arguments with angle brackets in --help output. - Split description for --no-<opt> from --<opt> in --help output. - Use print_option() to print each individual option in --help output. - dpkg-scansources: Remove reference to man page from --help output. - Remove spurious blank lines from program's --help output. - Do not mark «|» in bold in the option specification on --help output. - Add missing full stop to all option descriptions in --help output. - Improve clarity for argument specifiers in --help output. - Do not mark «()» in bold in option specification on --help output. - dpkg-shlibdeps: Merge <executable> specifications in --help usage output. - Use «Alias for <option>.» instead of «Ditto.» in --help output. - Use "Enter" or "<Enter>" to refer to the keyboard key name. - Use "<Space>" to refer to the keyboard key name. - dselect: Remove superfluous "remember: " in help screen. - dselect: Replace a stray printf() into debug() when initializing color pairs. - dselect: Say "color initialization" instead of "color allocation". - dselect: Use Ctrl+key instead of ^key for keyboard shortcuts. - Improve memory allocation error messages (round two). - dpkg-source: Change "represent change" error to plural. - dpkg-buildpackage: Fix --help output default value for --sign-command. - dpkg-buildpackage: Use "<rules>" instead of "debian/rules" in --help output. - dpkg-buildpackage: Use long option names in --help output references. - Improve options sorting in --help output. - Use "<package-build-dir>/DEBIAN/" instead o ".../DEBIAN/" in --help output. - Use "<override-file>.src" instead of describing the value in --help output. - Add support for defaults and environment variable printing in --help output. - Remove mentions of options with no default value from --help output. - Move default value from option descriptions to its own --help output lines. - Print missing default values and environment variables in --help output. - Improve and unify option descriptions in --help output. - dpkg-query: Clarify Status header line in --list output message. Prompted by Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>. * Portability: - dpkg: Use utimensat() if available and in preference of lutimes/utimes. * Perl modules: - Dpkg::Version: Add prototypes for sort functions. Analysis by Oron Peled <Oron.Peled@harmonicinc.com>. Closes: #1131556 - Dpkg::Deps: Add a prototype to deps_compare(). - Dpkg::Source::Patch: Remove check for patching via a symlink. Reported by Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>. See https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/03/msg00250.html. - Dpkg::Source::Patch: Improve unrepresentable change error to hint git usage. - Dpkg::Compression: Move gzip --rsyncable handling to the get cmdline function. - Dpkg::Vendor::PureOS: Use .pgp keyrings instead of .gpg ones. See https://source.puri.sm/pureos/core/pureos-archive-keyring/-/merge_requests/1. - Dpkg::Changelog: Rename variables from $c to $chlog or $ctrl. - Dpkg::Source::Package: Switch CURRENT_MINOR_VERSION from scalar to sub. - Dpkg::Source::Patch: Refactor _gen_hires_diff_label() function. - Dpkg::Checksums: Use -s _ instead of the direct result from stat. - Dpkg::Source::Patch: Use Time::HiRes::stat only when needed. - Dpkg::IPC: Add missing verbs to error messages. - Dselect::Method::Ftp: Load Time::Local with «use» instead of «require». - Dselect::Method::Ftp: Switch from deprecated timegm() to timegm_posix(). - Dpkg::Compression::FileHandle: Switch set_filename() warning into croak. - Dpkg::Arch: Use subprocerr() instead of syserr() for subprocess error handling. - Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Add space after = operator. - Dpkg::Email::Address: Reject all control characters in email addresses. - Dpkg::Email::Address: Reject commas in the email local and domain parts. - Dpkg::BuildInfo: Allow dpkg-deb compressor variables. Thanks to Serge Schneider <serge@raspberrypi.com>. Closes: #1140613 - Dpkg::BuildProfiles: Move exclamation mark into restriction list regex. - Dpkg::BuildProfiles: Move regex variables at the top of the file. - Dpkg::BuildProfiles: Validate profile names on get and set. - Dpkg::IPC: Fix error message to refer to "stderr" instead of "stdout". - Dselect::Method::Ftp: Clarify that LIST is an FTP command in error message. - Dpkg::Shlibs::Symbol: Use "match" instead of "catch" in error message. - Dpkg::Color: Refactor color handling into this new module. - Dpkg::Getopt: Refactor format_option_parts() from dpkg-source print_option(). - Dpkg::Getopt: Add option formatting and printing functions. - Dpkg::Getopt: Add new print_version() function. - Dpkg::Getopt: Add new parse_option_dir(). - Dpkg::OpenPGP::Backend::SOP: Add hop as an alternative SOP implementation. - Dpkg::Source::Package::V3::Git: Use git --end-of-options before URLs. Prompted by Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>. See https://nesbitt.io/2026/07/21/end-of-options.html. - Dpkg::Source::Package: Move full stop from option formatter to strings. - Dselect::Method::Config: Do not use Perl 5.38 //= in sub signature. - Dpkg::File: Change file_touch() to open for appending. - Dpkg::File: Fix file_touch() to update existing file timestamps. - Dpkg::Version: Fix and improve is_native() deprecation warning. Closes: #1145181 - Dpkg::Gettext: Fix C_() context string handling on missing translations. - Dpkg::Gettext: Export C_() by default. * Make fragments: - Add supported since versions to variables. * Shell library: - Add an ANSI reset escape comment after the color constants. - Add constants for all common ANSI character color attributes. * Shell completion: - Import completion files from bash-completion. See https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/pull/1639. - Split completions for dpkg-deb and dpkg-query. - Sort and group dpkg completion options. - Switch word lists into bash arrays. - Fix dpkg-source -F argument completion. - Fix completion for dselect --debug. - Use update-alternatives --get-selections instead of accessing the admindir. - Rely only on _comp_compgen_help for update-alternatives --help parsing. - Improve dpkg status parsing to be more robust. - Remove unsupported -W and -E completion for dpkg-source. - Add missing fields to dpkg-source completion. - Add handling for missing options. - Add new start-stop-daemon bash completion. * Documentation: - man: Clarify that git-style patches can represent changes that GNU diff cannot. - man: Itemize attribute keywords in deb-src-files(5). - man: Document that getconf(1) must not be used for LFS support. Closes: #1133272 - doc: Refer to deb822 instead of RFC822. - man: Remove trailing full stops from diagnostic items. - man: Fix markup for C<> and B<> to include the relevant text. - man: Document the full ar archive magic value. - man: Use semantic line breaks (must requirements, round two). - doc: Remove anachronistic two space sentence separation. - doc: Avoid "please" and "thanks" in man pages and code comments. - doc: Fix formatting for version introducing features. - man: Add supported since version information for Rules-Requires-Root field. - man: Split dpkg-deb --[no-]uniform-compression description into two items. - man: Remove "or" from end of =item in FILES section. - man: Move build flags enabled/disabled state on its own paragraph. - man: Improve supported since version information. - man: Add new deb-email(7) man page. Closes: #1126502 - man: Move the #CURVER# metavariable from =head2 to =head3. - man: Document where to ship shlibs and symbols files. See #1009300. - man: Document that DPKG_PAGER only overrides PAGER when non-empty. Closes: #931094 - man: Document that using "cat" in DPKG_PAGER or PAGER disables it. See #931094. - man: Clarify guarantees for non-seekable inputs to dpkg-deb. - man: Clarify that build profile names do not include exclamation marks. - man: Add supported since version for some dpkg-buildpackage long options. - man: Mark in bold dpkg-shlibdeps --warning values. - man: Mark in bold the literal commas needed by option arguments. - man: Split multiple long option aliases into their own items. - man: Remove no longer relevant SEE ALSO references for dpkg-name(1). - doc: Update list of optional SOP build dependencies. - doc: Remove usage of condescending wording "obviously". - doc: Remove usage of condescending wording "of course". - doc: Remove usage of condescending wording "clearly". - doc: Remove usage of weasel wording "simply". - doc: Remove usage of weasel wording "in fact". - doc: Remove usage of weasel wording "the fact that". - doc: Remove usage of weasel wording "basically". - doc: Remove usage of weasel wording "in order". - doc: Improve feature-removal-schedule machine readable annotation format. * Code internals: - scripts: Do not fail on empty Maintainer field from parsed changelog. Closes: #1130119 - src, lib: Reduce variables scope. - libdpkg: Update suppressions for cppcheck 2.20.0. - shell: Add missing ;; for switch cases. - shell: Remove unneeded trailing «;» and «\». - shell: Reformat shell scripts. - perl: Improve POD for functions. - libdpkg: Rename dpkg_ar_member_get_size() to dpkg_ar_member_parse_size(). - update-alternatives: Add an assert on value returned by alternative_map_find(). - libcompat: Remove spurious space in #if conditional. - libcompat: Add countof() support. - Use countof() instead of array_count(). - Rename scandir() filter functions. - libdpkg: Make the pre-allocated update file size be a power of two. - perl: Switch to use File::stat when we need to access its members. - scripts: Use S_IMODE to get the mode bits from st_mode. - libdpkg: Spell out standard descriptor names in error message. - libdpkg: On memory allocation failures print the requested size. - libdpkg: Unify abort error format string with fatal error format string. - libdpkg: Clarify and switch "outside error context" error into internerr(). - libdpkg: Fix tar long name/link entry parsing to avoid truncation. Reported by Tristan <TristanInSec@gmail.com>. - libdpkg: Do not allow tar long name/link entries longer than SSIZE_MAX. Reported by Tristan <TristanInSec@gmail.com>. - scripts: Make license grant text internally consistent. - Collapse consecutive spaces into a single space in code. - libdpkg: Add missing blank after comma. - dselect: Move newline at end of string literal paragraph on its own line. - dselect: Use subprocerr() in methods instead of open-coding it. - dselect: Rework methods to use Dpkg::ErrorHandling for reporting. - dselect: Refactor screen pad and window names into an untranslated argument. - libdpkg: Rework compression error messages. - scripts: Mark strings for translation. - dpkg-buildpackage: Refactor signer key ID length computation. - dselect: Add a space after operator keyword. - start-stop-daemon: Refactor exit_status() function. - start-stop-daemon: Switch action handling in main() from cascading if/else to switch. - start-stop-daemon: Flush stdout before fork() to avoid any potential output duplication. - update-alternatives, libdpkg: Force line instead of no buffering for stdout even on a tty. - dselect: Add TRANSLATORS comment to help describe what the string is about. - libdpkg: Add macros for all common ANSI character color attributes. - libdpkg: Add new str_vfmt() function. - libdpkg, utils: Add new print_option_sep() function. - dpkg-source: Call print_option() once instead of once per option section. - scripts: Switch to use print_version() from Dpkg::Getopt. - Switch to use an explicit print_option_sep() instead of "\n". - scripts: Represent --help output strings as line literals. - libdpkg, utils: Add new print_option() function. - libdpkg: Mark «=» in bold in the option specification on --help output. - scripts: Parse directory options with parse_option_dir(). See #1143871. - libdpkg: Add new term_get_width() function. - dpkg-name: Refactor supported package sections into an array. - Fix warnings due to new libc const-preserving string functions. - libdpkg: Nest file_slurp() ENOENT check inside if conditional. - libdpkg: Reset the ar size to 0 on non-seekable file descriptors. - libdpkg: Change must_alloc() to must_alloc_string(). - dpkg: Change --command-fd file descriptor to an int. - libdpkg: Add log_set_file() function instead of exposing log_file variable. - libdpkg: Add push/pop_fatal_errors_section() instead of onerr_abort variable. - dpkg: Add new clear_cleanup_state() instead of exposing cleanup variables. - libdpkg: Do not skip varbuf allocations on additions with zero sizes. Reported by Elias Hasas (zer0d4y5) <eliash977@gmail.com> (empty first field). Closes: #1147121 * Build system: - Update .editorconfig shell directives for shfmt. - Remove -Wpre-c2x-compat flag. - Rename c2x warning options to use c23 instead. - Add new gcc-15 warnings. - Add --tags to «git describe». - Add generated configure file artifacts to .gitignore. - Add max_line_length to .editorconfig. - Set TAR_OPTIONS to avoid leaking maintainer information on dist. - Move max_line_length from the catch-all glob to each section. - Add AC_SYS_YEAR2038 support to configure. Closes: #1054552 - Add support for bash scripts in the source tree. - Quote shell variables that might contain spaces in TAP test runner. - Improve gen-changelog section filtering and grouping. * Packaging: - Bump Standards-Version to 4.7.4 (no changes needed). - Remove build dependency on debhelper (>= 13.10). - Remove obsolete Breaks satisfied since Debian oldstable or stable. - Remove obsolete versioned dependencies on essential packages. - Remove trailing spaces from conffiles. - Do not use unbalanced quotes in dpkg/dselect conffiles. - Improve description for dpkg and dselect config files. - Ship an /etc/dpkg/buildpackage.conf file in dpkg-dev. - Remove package prefix from lintian-overrides. * Test suite: - Improve unit test description message to include directory. - Remove TAR_OPTIONS from environment before calling $Dpkg::PROGTAR. - Update cppcheck suppressions for 2.21.0. - Make mknod(1) tests conditional and disabled by default. Analysis by Arnaud Rebillout <arnaudr@debian.org>. Closes: #1142100, #1144781 * Localization: - Add Ukrainian translations. Thanks to Andriy Pysyk <ep.nestor@gmail.com>. Closes: #1130980 - Update .gitignore files for new gettext. - Update Dutch translations. Thanks to Frans Spiesschaert <Frans.Spiesschaert@yucom.be>. Closes: #1131211, #1132541, #1132542 - Update Portuguese translations. Thanks to Américo Monteiro <a_monteiro@gmx.com>. Closes: #1127394 - Update Romanian dselect translation. Thanks to Remus-Gabriel Chelu <remusgabriel.chelu@disroot.org>. Closes: #1139332 - Update Romanian programs translation. Thanks to Remus-Gabriel Chelu <remusgabriel.chelu@disroot.org>. Closes: #1139334 - Update Swedish translations. Thanks to Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>. 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