An experimental branch of the APT 3.1.0 (Advanced Package Tool) package management tool has been released, which will be used as the basis for the stable 3.2 release after stabilization. The new APT branch will be integrated into Debian Unstable and will not be included in the upcoming release Debian 13.
New features include:
- Added new commands "apt why" and "apt why-not".
- Added "Include" and "Exclude" options to .sources files to allow loading only specified packages from the repository (whitelist) or not processing certain packages in the repository (blacklist).
- HTTPS support has been added to the dselect utility.
- For Ubuntu The command-line utilities include the Solver3 dependency resolution engine by default, which uses a backtracking algorithm to resolve conflicts between dependencies.
Source: opennet.ru
