Cupt 2.6 is released to Debian unstable. Some prominent changes, citing from NEWS-file:

• Subcommands 'markauto' and 'unmarkauto' are now first-class management actions: can cause more actions in the same run (usually auto-removals) and
  have positional counterparts '--markauto' and '--unmarkauto'.
• New options '--asauto=yes', '--asauto=no' and '-- ( Read more... )

While release of Debian wheezy getting is closer and closer, Cupt's development version also moves forward bit by bit.

A couple of particularly interesting features -- showing full reason chains and functional selectors -- may be summarized by this screenshot.

And, as a fresh experiment, I placed a feature to widen functional selecting ( Read more... )

A status update for what changed since Squeeze release and what is the state of Cupt in Wheezy. No new things for those few who follow small blog posts or the changelog, but an overview for, maybe, softly or newly interested ( Read more... )

Half a year since the last status update, so here we go:

• New mailing lists: cupt-user and cupt-devel, thanks to the Alioth people&infrastructure. The first, cupt-user is the preferred form of the feedback (except of the bug reports, which still go to the Debian BTS) from now on, also I intend send there announcements and questions to all users who ( Read more... )

It took longer than usual, but I believe it's worth.

I just released Cupt 2.2.0~rc1 to Debian experimental. To experimental, because there are important changes and I would appreciate "in-field" testing before final 2.2.0.

Here are the major changes since 2.1.x:

• Dpkg action sequencer improvements. There are multiple improvements, both in quality ( Read more... )

I released new major version of Cupt, 2.0.0 (== 2.0.0~rc2), today. The final list of major changes since 1.5.x is available here and in binary packages. A web copy of the (newly written) tutorial is here.

Thanks to all bug reporters who helped to make it better.

Packages have landed to Debian unstable and should be available on the mirrors soon.

Cupt v2 has reached a beta stage.

Main news of Cupt v2 comparing to Cupt v1 are grouped here.

Notable changes since 2.0.0~alpha3:

• New configurable score calculation system in the native resolver (new option group 'cupt::resolver::tune-score::*')
• Added an ability to specify additional package expressions and restart the solving process in the ( Read more... )

Notable changes since 2.0.0~alpha2:

• All non-experimental things from cupt 1.x is now here (namely, snapshots and full library documentation)
• Major improvements to dpkg action scheduling algorithm, including auto-determining packages which need indirect upgrades
• Various bugfixes

Full changelog is available in debian/changelog, as usual.

binary ( Read more... )

The second alpha of Cupt2 is out at the same download place.

Changes since first alpha:

• documented library, except of cupt::system::Worker and cupt::system::Resolver
• added an example 'show-upgradeable'
• bug fixes

The library API is still a subject to change. If you care, please install the documentation package and mail me (see mail address in README ( Read more... )

First alpha version of Cupt version 2 is available here: http://people.debian.org/~jackyf/cupt2/Read more... )