apkg news

apkg 0.6.1

Released 2025-06-20

Fixes

• reintroduce toml dep for older systems with Python < 3.11

apkg 0.6.0

Released 2025-06-19

Compat Level 5 News

• new apkg lint command to invoke native distro linters (lintian, rpmlint)
• improved apkg system-setup command including new --lint option to install linting deps
• new apkg info apkg-deps command to show dependencies colored for easy debugging
• new distro_like template variable module for detecting similar distros
• rpm: evaluate RPM macros using rpmspec if available
  • apkg now works with .spec files using complex macros including macros in Name
• template variables are now always passed when rendering templates
  • some pkgstyle functions previously rendered templates directly without template variables which lead to errors in special cases
• apkg.templatevars.debseries module was renamed to deb_series for consistency
  • old debseries module is still supported for the time being, it emits a warning when used

Improvements

• Python 3.13 is now supported and tested in CI
• new distros are now supported and tested in CI:
  • Debian 13 Trixie
  • Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin and 24.10 Oricular Oriole
  • Enterprise Linux 10: RHEL 10, AlmaLinux 10, Rocky 10
  • Fedora 42 and 41
• lighten dependencies:
  • drop hatchling build dep in favor of setuptools
  • drop dunamai build dep in favor of custom solution
• improved handling of unreleased / versionless distros, including Debian testing, unstable, experimental
• new util.toml module for robust runtime TOML libs selection
  • supports tomllib (standard library since Python 3.11), tomli, toml, tomlkit modules for TOML loading
  • supports tomli_w, toml, tomlkit for TOML dumping
• improved logging of function names when using -L verbose and -L debug
• big packaging guide upgrade
  • new fancy Mermaid diagrams
  • updated workflow with install, test, lint commands
  • new added_in_version macro to provide consistent version / compat information

apkg 0.5.1

Released 2024-06-24

Fixes

• update requires-python to >=3.6 to enable installation on old systems
• small docs fixes

apkg 0.5.0

Released 2024-04-03

Compat Level 4 News

• new custom template variables support
  • new template.variables config section
  • extend apkg status command with template variables sources status
  • new apkg info template-variables command
    • show all template variables by default
    • show custom variables per source with --custom
• deb pkgstyle: include *.changes files in srcpkg/build output
  • many debian tools and workflows require *.changes files - comply
• fix incorrect parsing of single compnent versions (1, 20240101, etc.)

Improvements

• updated and overhauled installation docs
• new platform support docs with detailed information about Python versions and distros supported by apkg

apkg 0.4.2

Released 2023-08-08

Fixes

• re-introduce cached_property requirement to support Python <= 3.7

apkg 0.4.1

Released 2023-07-19

Improvements

• use modern python packaging through pyproject.toml
  • use hatchling for build
  • use PEP440 compatible versioning
  • support legacy setuptools for backward compat
  • improve archive and sdist generation
  • improve Debian packaging (pyproject build on Debian 12 and newer)
  • rename distro package to just apkg
  • support both blessed (maintained fork) and blessings for colors
• arch pkgstyle improvements:
  • support Manjaro
  • only install --needed distro packages
  • require base-devel for apkg system-setup
• deb pkgstyle improvements:
  • support Pop_OS! (Ubuntu derivative)
  • only require build-essential (not devscripts) on apkg system-setup
  • sort SUPPORTED_DISTROS alphabetically

Fixes

• fix distro alias ordering during template selection
• handle exceptions introduced by upstream packaging.version changes

apkg 0.4.0

Released 2022-07-18

Compat Level 3 News

• new apkg test packaging tests runner based on Debian autopkgtest
• new apkg info command with subcommands to display various info:
  • apkg info cache: show apkg cache contents
  • apkg info config: show apkg project configuration
  • apkg info distro: show current distro information
  • apkg info distro-aliases: list available distro aliases
  • apkg info pkgstyles: list available packaging styles
  • apkg info upstream-version: show detected project upstream version
• new apkg clean command to clean output dir pkg/
  • apkg clean: remove apkg output directory pkg/
  • apkg clean --cache: remove apkg cache file pkg/.cache.json
  • apkg clean --hard: HARD RESET project from VCS and remove extra files
• new include_raw tag available from templates to include files without templating
• support for AlmaLinux in rpm pkgstyle (almalinux)

Improvements

• command runner was refactored using asyncio
  • run() can tee command output - it's finally possible to both read and display stdout at the same time resulting in better real-time/log output and debugging when invoking external commands
  • run() logging was fixed and improved, use -L verbose to see all commands run in the background
• cache was refactored to be more flexible and reliable in edge cases
  • cache false positives should no longer appear
  • individual cache targets can be configured indpendently
  • only source cache is disabled when VCS isn't available
  • new cache docs as well as updated other docs with useful info and links
• new minimal example project examples/minimal-no-git

Fixes

• fix package manager detection in rpm pkgstyle
• parse makedepends as well as depends in arch pkgstyle
• fix --archive/--upstream operation in build-dep
• don't install 0 build deps
• use temporary dir for archive unpack (more reliable)

apkg 0.3.1

Released 2021-11-04

Fixes

• follow symlinks when rendering templates

apkg 0.3.0

Released 2021-11-03

Compat Level 2 News

• better distro handling
  • distro rules to specify particular distro version range
  • distro aliases to conveniently refer to custom distro sets
  • magic distro variable in templates for dynamic templating
• new flexible template selection
• new config options to control special files in templates using patterns:
  • template.ignore_files to ignore/skip files
  • template.plain_copy_files to copy files without templating
• support Jinja's include tag
• new now template variable available in deb and rpm pkgstyles (for changelog dates)

Improvements

• new apkg compat command and compat docs
• apkg will refuse to work with projects with newer compat level
• new minimal templating example examples/templates
• sort apkg srcpkg output for determinism
• update and extend docs (new pages: compat, distro, users)

Fixes

• fix false positive cache hits in special cases
• CI fixes and improvements

apkg 0.2.0

Released 2021-07-13

Improvements

• support Rocky Linux through rpm pkgstyle
• support Nix through new nix pkgstyle
• align apkg install with other commands and extend functionality
• extend CI to test apkg install on supported distros
• extend CI with new integration tests against apkg itself to ensure full apkg pipeline (including install) works on supported distros
• improve apkg archive creation script make-archive.sh
• remove problematic htmllistparse dependency in favor of using beautifulsoup4 directly

Fixes

• handle unset $PWD when running external commands
• fail on unexpected input files in srcpkg
• fix docs build

Incompatible Changes ⚠

• apkg install now works on project source by default like other commands (srcpkg, build). Old behavior of installing custom packages is available through -C/--custom-pkgs option.
• -i/--install-dep option of apkg build was renamed to -b/--build-dep to remove ambiguity. Old alias still works but it's deprecated an will be removed in future versions.

apkg 0.1.1

Released 2021-06-09

• first apkg beta release