NEWS file for piuparts ====================== piuparts is a tool for testing that .deb packages can be installed, upgraded, and removed without trouble. See the README file and the manual page for more information. This file summarizes the major changes, particularly user visible changes, for each release. Detailed change information can be found in bzr commit messages. This file is _deprecated_ now, see debian/NEWS.Debian instead! Version 0.20, September 22, 2006 -------------------------------- When running external commands, use subprocess.Popen so that there is no need for tricky (and therefore buggy) quoting of shell command line arguments. Version 0.19, September 8, 2006 ------------------------------- When reporting a bad symlink, show the target. Version 0.18, September 7, 2006 ------------------------------- New features Piuparts now checks for symlinks whose target does not exist. Option parsing code has been rewritten, and --help now works better. The chroot is now minimized before used: all unnecessary packages are purged. /dev/MAKEDEV, /etc/nologin, /usr/doc/cpio, /var/spool/cron added to default ignores. A version number may now begin with a + character. There was a package that did that and piuparts crashed. Version 0.17 ------------ Bug fixes The configuration files of piuparts-master/slave are now documented in the README. The Python profiler is no longer used. It used to be, but that was a leftover from development (also known as failure to read diffs before committing). When testing upgrades between distributions, piuparts now makes sure that the packages being tested are upgraded, even if it means removing an old version of a dependency. New features Piuparts now checks for processes running inside the chroot after it has installed or purged a package. Because it uses policy-rc.d to prevent any services from starting, no processes should run inside the chroot after an installation or a purge has completed. This check then finds packages that don't use invoke-rc.d to start new processes. A number of new default ignores have been added: /etc/modprobe.d, compiled versions of debconf's Python modules, papercut, ssl certificates. /proc is now mounted (and unmounted) inside the chroot. Version 0.16 ------------ Bug fixes The temporary directory for the chroot was not being removed in all cases when running apt-get failed. This has now been fixed. New features Added piuparts-analyze.py, which looks at new logs of failed tests and compares them to logs of failed tests for earlier versions of the same packages, and if so, moves them automatically around. This saves a bit of manual works. Thanks to Goswin Brederlow for the idea. When piuparts creates a chroot from a tarball (option -b), it now upgrades it before using it. A number of new entries to the default ignores list. Log files are now created with permissions that are 0666 modified with the process umask. piuparts-report.py has been optimized somewhat. Version 0.15 ------------ Bug fixes The dependency parser in piupartslib now understands < and > (they're deprecated but one or two packges still use them). It also now allows underscores in package names because of the type-handling package. Small fixes to the manual page. New features and significant user visible changes piuparts-master now understands Provides: headers. A number of new entries to the default ignores list. New option --keep-sources-list from John Wright. Version 0.14 ------------ Bug fixes Specifications for ignoring some directories were buggy and have now been fixed: /var/spool/news, /var/lib/cvs. When testing a .deb file given on the command line, if any of its dependencies were missing, the package itself would be removed instead of piuparts reporting an error. This has been fixed. The check for whether a package is marked untestable for piuparts-master now works. New features and significant user visible changes New program piuparts-report.py produces some "statistics" about packages and their status with regard to testing with piuparts-slave. The chroot is always set up for piuparts, even if it is unpacked from a tarball. This reduces problems with out-of-date chroots and with using the pbuilder base.tgz tarball. Now ignored by default: /var/lib/firebird, /var/spool/news, /var/lib/rbldns, /home/ftp. Version 0.13 ------------ Bug fixes The configuration for apt-get (in the chroot) to allow un-authenticated sources now actually works. There used to be a typo. New features and other user visible changes The old run-piuparts.py script has been replaced by a distributed system, consisting of piuparts-master.py and piuparts-slave.py, plus a reporting script piuparts-report.py. Since these are not useful for most users, they're not installed on $PATH, but in /usr/share/piuparts instead. The slave part also runs upgrade tests between Debian releases, which run-piuparts.py didn't. Some additional files are ignored by default when comparing the state of the chroot before and after package installation.