It's that time again! The Debian APT Team would like to proudly announce the arrival of APT version 0.3.2, the next-generation package manager for Debian GNU/Linux. This release heralds a major jump in the way APT is laid out and put together; the plug-in architecture has been radically modified (for the better!) and there is now an /etc/apt/apt.conf file to modify just about everything possible about APT's behavior.
APT also comes with a heaping helping of documentation now; a Users' Guide, configuration guide, and all sorts of wonderful information comes along with the main 'apt' package. If you're more interested in learning how the innards of APT work, or you'd like to learn how to make a plug-in, check out the new libapt-pkg-doc and libapt-pkg-dev packages. Also with this release of APT will come the new Gnome GUI front-end, aptly titled Gnome Apt. Gnome Apt has been under development for a few months and is proceeding excellently. We hope Gnome Apt will make it easier and more pleasant to manage your Debian packaging system. More information about Gnome Apt is available from http://www.debian.org/~hp/gnome-apt.html . If you wish to try out Gnome Apt, you may want to take a look at the Debian Gnome "staging area", where the Debian developers are busily coordinating several stages of Gnome 1.0 packages for both the stable and unstable releases of Debian. More information about the Gnome staging area is at: http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/README Happy APTing! Ben Gertzfield -- Brought to you by the letters I and B and the number 19. "More testicles means more iron." Debian GNU/Linux maintainer of Gimp and GTK+ -- http://www.debian.org/ I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet/Open Projects IRC as Che_Fox.
