Hi all,

Time to do another bugfix release of the Muon package manager and the library it is built upon, LibQApt. Muon is a powerful package manager for Debian-based systems, with a focus on having a sane UI. After these bugfix releases, there will likely be no further releases until QApt and Muon 1.1 are released. If something major arises, a bugfix release would of course be made, though at this point I think we would have discovered such a bug already. 😉

Sources for QApt and Muon are available here and here, respectively. Packages are already available for Kubuntu 10.10 in the regular PPA. I’ll make packages for 10.04 if there is demand. 🙂

Anyways, aside from more translations, here’s what’s new in the package management world:

QApt 1.0.4

Bugfixes:

Respect preference files in the /etc/apt/preferences.d/ dir, and not just the /etc/apt/preferences file itself

Catch and report initialization errors in places we were missing them

Report that package state has changed when loading selection files

Muon 1.0.3

Bugfixes:

* Disable the reinstall button for non-reinstallable items, such as non-downloadable and/or locally-installed packages. (BKO: #254449)

1.1 News

I thought I might do a first alpha of QApt and Muon 1.1 tonight. But in 4 minutes it will technically be morning, and I need to go to bed. I will try to make the releases within the week, though. I should note that I will be unable to make 1.1 packages for Ubuntu 10.04, as LibQApt 1.1 will require APT 0.8.0 or higher, and 10.04 has 0.7.25. Just a heads-up.

In the meanwhile, you can check out what’s new, (I have a few more neat things implemented since then to blog about when I release. :)) and stay tuned for further blog posts.

G’night.

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