| What's New In python-apt 1.7 | |
| ============================ | |
| Changed | |
| -------- | |
| * Starting with 1.6.1 and 1.7~alpha1, the exception raised when | |
| passing objects of a different cache to :class:`apt_pkg.DepCache` | |
| is :class:`apt_pkg.CacheMismatchError`, and :class:`apt.cache.Cache` will | |
| automatically remap open packages and versions to a new cache. | |
| * :meth:`apt_pkg.Policy.get_priority()` now accepts :class:`apt_pkg.Version` | |
| objects in addition to :class:`apt_pkg.Package` and :class:`apt_pkg.PackageFile` | |
| ones. | |
| * :attr:`apt.package.Version.policy_priority` now returns the priority | |
| for that version rather than the highest priority for one of its | |
| package files. | |
| * :meth:`apt.Cache.commit` and :meth:`apt_pkg.DepCache.commit` now use | |
| frontend locking to run dpkg. | |
| Added | |
| ------ | |
| * The class :class:`apt_pkg.PackageRecords` can now lookup custom fields | |
| using ``records[key]`` and ``key in records``. | |
| * All code is now statically typed. Some methods from :mod:`apt_pkg` | |
| and :mod:`apt_inst` might still be missing or more strict than | |
| necessary. | |
| * A new method :meth:`apt.cache.Cache.fix_broken` has been added. | |
| * New methods for frontend locking have been added: | |
| :meth:`apt_pkg.pkgsystem_lock_inner`, | |
| :meth:`apt_pkg.pkgsystem_unlock_inner`, | |
| :meth:`apt_pkg.pkgsystem_is_locked` (starting in alpha 3). | |
| Deprecated | |
| ---------- | |
| * :meth:`apt_pkg.Policy.get_priority()` accepting :class:`apt_pkg.Package` | |
| is deprecated. | |