Apt 1.9 package manager release

Prepared release of package management tools Apt 1.9 (Advanced Package Tool), developed by the Debian project. In addition to Debian and its derivative distributions, Apt is also used in some distributions based on the rpm package manager, such as PCLinuxOS and ALT Linux. New release coming soon integrated to the Debian Unstable branch and to the package database Ubuntu 19.10.

Of changes you can note:

  • Added "apt satisfy" and "apt-get satisfy" commands to install the packages required to satisfy the dependencies specified in the string passed as an argument. This includes listing multiple lines and specifying β€œConflicts:” blocks to eliminate dependencies. For example, 'apt-get satisfy "foo" "Conflicts: bar" "baz (>> 1.0) | bar (= 2.0), mooΒ»';
  • Added merge-translations and bump-abi commands;
  • The requirement for the C++ standard version has been raised to C++14;
  • Added support for specifying multiple hashes for a single file to apt-helper;
  • The libapt-inst library has been merged with libapt-pkg;
  • Changes have been made to the ABI, libapt-pkg.so version has been increased to 5.90;
  • Cleaned up obsolete flags and merged various function prototypes.

Source: opennet.ru

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