What’s New In python-apt 1.9

This is a development series, and there will be more API changes in point releases.

Added

• The method apt_pkg.TagSection.write() has been added
• The attribute apt_pkg.HashString.hashvalue has been added
• The constructor apt_pkg.AcquireFile now accepts an apt_pkg.HashStringList as the hash argument.
• The classes apt_pkg.HashString and apt_pkg.HashStringList gained a new usable property.

Removed

• The methods called install_protect have been removed
• The section attribute has been removed from apt_pkg.Package and apt.package.Package
• The method apt_pkg.rewrite_section() has been removed
• The attributes apt_pkg.Hashes.md5, apt_pkg.Hashes.sha1, apt_pkg.Hashes.sha256 have been removed
• The method apt_pkg.Policy.get_match() has been removed.
• The constructor apt_pkg.AcquireFile no longer takes an md5 argument.

Changed

• In apt_pkg.SourceRecords, the tuple view of files now always contains None where it previously contained the md5 hash.
• The method apt_pkg.Policy.get_priority() no longer accepts apt_pkg.Package instances.
• Instances of apt_pkg.HashString can now be compared for equality
• apt.progress.base.InstallProgress is now a context manager, use it in a with statement to avoid leaking file descriptors.

Bug fixes

• Fixed unterminated char* array in apt_pkg.TagRemove constructor.