1 This is a list of features that are scheduled to be removed from dpkg.
4 What: 822-date (program)
9 Should switch to use 'date -R'.
11 What: cleanup-info (program)
16 This program was needed long time ago to fixup broken info dir files
17 generated by buggy install-info programs. Should not be needed anymore.
19 What: Source-Version (substvar)
22 Warning: lintian (substvar-source-version-is-deprecated)
24 The semantics of Source-Version are missleading when applied to binNMUs.
25 Should switch to use binary:Version or source:Version substvars.
27 What: Revision, Package-Revision, Package_Revision, Class, Recommended,
33 These fields have been superseded by either other fields with better names
34 or values in other fields.
36 What: recommended, contrib, base (priority)
41 These priorities have been superseded by either other fields or values in
44 What: --force-auto-install (dpkg option)
49 What: --largemem, --smallmem (dpkg option)
54 What: --no-auto-select (dpkg option)
59 What: -u, --udeb (dpkg-scanpackages option)
64 This option has been superseded by -tudeb.
66 What: substvars support in dpkg-source and dpkg-genchanges
71 substvars do not make sense during generation of .dsc and .changes files.
72 This also means that it won't be possible anymore to override the Format
73 field output by dpkg-genchanges.
75 What: support of custom changelog parsers understanding only -v
80 The debian changelog parser has been enhanced. It supports new options
81 that enable more fine-grained retrieval of information. Those new options
82 will be used by scripts (like dpkg-genchanges).
84 Custom changelog parsers must be updated to support the new API (see
85 dpkg-parsechangelog(1) and README.api).
92 PGP is not part of Debian and GnuPG has been the standard tool for digital
93 signatures for several years already. Supporting only GnuPG enables us to
94 rely on some of its features.