apt-offline 1.8.6

Offline Package Manager for APT

apt-offline 1.8.6

apt-offline version 1.8.6 was released almost 3 weeks ago on 08/February/2025

This release includes many bug fixes from community users.

  • Error out if we cannot initialize the APT lock. Thanks to Matthew Maslak
  • check for checksum and handle appropriately (#217) Thanks to Dan Whitman (Github:kyp44)
  • Honor the –allow-unauthenticated option. Thanks to João A (Github: Jonybat)
  • Retry when server reports 429 Too Many Requests occurs. Thanks to Zoltan Kelemen (Github: misterzed88)
  • Also support file:/// url types. Thanks to c4bhuf@github
  • Honor user specified extra gpg keyrings

Changelog

apt-offline (1.8.6-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Error out if we cannot initialize the APT lock.
    Thanks to Matthew Maslak
  * check for checksum and handle appropriately (#217)
    Thanks to Dan Whitman (Github:kyp44)
  * Honor the --allow-unauthenticated option.
    Thanks to João A (Github: Jonybat)
  * Retry when server reports 429 Too Many Requests occurs.
    Thanks to Zoltan Kelemen (Github: misterzed88)
  * Also support file:/// url types.
    Thanks to c4bhuf@github
  * Honor user specified extra gpg keyrings

 -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@debian.org>  Sat, 08 Feb 2025 20:46:24 +0530

Resources

  • Tarball and Zip archive for apt-offline are available here
  • Packages should be available in Debian.
  • Development for apt-offline is currently hosted here

apt-offline 1.8.4

Offline Package Manager for APT

apt-offline 1.8.4

apt-offline version 1.8.4 has been released.

This release includes many bug fixes but the important ones are:

  • Better GPG signature handling
  • Support for verifying InRelease files

Changelog

apt-offline (1.8.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Debian Janitor ]
  * Update standards version to 4.5.0, no changes needed.

  [ Paul Wise ]
  * Clarify file type in unknown file message
  * Fix typos
  * Remove trailing whitespace
  * Update LICENSE file to match official GNU version
  * Complain when there are no valid keyrings instead of missing keyrings
  * Make all syncrhronised files world readable
  * Fix usage of indefinite articles
  * Only show the APT Offline GUI once in the menu
  * Update out of date URLs
  * Fix date and whitespace issues in the manual page
  * Replace stereotyping with an appropriate word
  * Switch more Python shebangs to Python 3
  * Correct usage of the /tmp/ directory
  * Fix YAML files
  * Fix usage of the log API
  * Make the copying of changelog lines less brittle
  * Do not split keyring paths on whitespace

  [ Ritesh Raj Sarraf ]
  * Drop the redundant import of the apt module.
    Thanks to github/dandelionred
  * Fix deprecation of get_bugs() in debianbts
  * Drop the unused IgnoredBugTypes
  * Set encoding for files when opening
  * Better error logging when apt fails
  * Don't mandate a default option
  * Demote metadata errors to verbose
  * Also log an error message for every failed .deb url
  * Check hard for the url type
  * Check for ascii armored signature files.
    Thanks to David Klnischkies
  * Add MIME type for InRelease files
  * Drop patch 0001-Drop-the-redundant-import-of-the-apt-module.patch.
    Now part of the 1.8.4 release
  * Prepare release 1.8.3
  * Prepare release 1.8.4
  * debian packaging
    + Bump debhelper compatibility to 13
    + Update install files

  [ Dean Anderson ]
  * [#143] Added support for verifying InRelease files

 -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@debian.org>  Sat, 12 Feb 2022 18:52:58 +0530

Resources

  • Tarball and Zip archive for apt-offline are available here
  • Packages should be available in Debian.
  • Development for apt-offline is currently hosted here