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- This is a list of features that are scheduled to be removed from dpkg.
-
-
- What: Source-Version (substvar)
- Status: obsolete
- When: 1.16.x
- Warning: lintian (substvar-source-version-is-deprecated)
- Why:
- The semantics of Source-Version are missleading when applied to binNMUs.
- Should switch to use binary:Version or source:Version substvars.
-
- What: Revision, Package-Revision, Package_Revision, Class, Recommended,
- Optional (field)
- Status: obsolete
- When: 1.15.x
- Warning: program
- Why:
- These fields have been superseded by either other fields with better names
- or values in other fields.
-
- What: -u, --udeb (dpkg-scanpackages option)
- Status: deprecated
- When: 1.16.x
- Warning: program
- Why:
- This option has been superseded by -tudeb.
-
- What: support of custom changelog parsers understanding only -v
- Status: obsolete
- When: 1.15.x
- Warning: none
- Why:
- The debian changelog parser has been enhanced. It supports new options
- that enable more fine-grained retrieval of information. Those new options
- will be used by scripts (like dpkg-genchanges).
- .
- Custom changelog parsers must be updated to support the new API (see
- dpkg-parsechangelog(1) and README.api).
-
- What: support of PGP
- Status: deprecated
- When: 1.15.x
- Warning: program
- Why:
- PGP is not part of Debian and GnuPG has been the standard tool for digital
- signatures for several years already. Supporting only GnuPG enables us to
- rely on some of its features.
-
- What: --print-installation-architecture (dpkg option)
- Status: obsolete
- When: 1.15.x
- Warning: program
- Why:
- Obsoleted long time ago (2005-01-22). Remaining packages should switch to
- use 'dpkg --print-architecture'.
-
- What --forget-old-unavail (dpkg option)
- Status: obsolete
- When: 1.16.x
- Warning: program
- Why:
- Purged packages are properly cleaned up now by dpkg, and old unavailable
- leftovers are automatically cleaned up on database parsing. So there's no
- need anymore for this manual action.
-
- History of feature removals
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- What: cleanup-info (program)
- Status: removed
- Since: 1.15.0
- Why:
- This program was needed long time ago to fixup broken info dir files
- generated by buggy install-info programs. Should not be needed anymore.
-
- What: --largemem, --smallmem (dpkg option)
- Status: removed
- When: 1.15.1
- Why:
- These options have been no-ops for a long time.
-
- What: --force-auto-select (dpkg option)
- Status: removed
- When: 1.15.1
- Why:
- This option has been a no-op for so long, that there's no traces on git
- history of its usage.
-
- What: recommended, contrib, base (priority)
- Status: removed
- When: 1.15.1
- Why:
- These priorities have been superseded by either other fields or values in
- other fields.
-
- What: 822-date (program)
- Status: removed
- When: 1.15.1
- Why:
- Should switch to use 'date -R'.
-
-