| This is a list of features that are scheduled to be removed from dpkg. |
| |
| What: fallback of dpkg-source to source format "1.0" without explicit debian/source/format |
| Status: deprecated |
| When: 1.17.x |
| Warning: program and lintian (missing-debian-source-format) |
| Why: |
| With the support of multiple source formats, the user should be explicit |
| about the desired source format. The fallback to "1.0" is there only for |
| backwards compatibility but will be removed once all packages have the |
| debian/source/format file. This is unlikely to happen before 1.17.x. |
| |
| 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| Status: obsolete |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| Status: obsolete |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| These fields have been superseded by either other fields with better names |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| This option has been superseded by -tudeb.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 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| Status: obsolete |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| Status: obsolete |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. |
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| 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'. |
| |
| What: support of custom changelog parsers understanding only -v |
| Status: removed |
| Since: 1.15.5 |
| 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 for environment variable DPKG_NO_TSTP |
| Status: removed |
| Since: 1.15.6 |
| Why: |
| Having two ways to let the administrator get to a shell on conffile prompt |
| is confusing, it also difficults setting up a consistent environment to be |
| used by external programs. |
