Package: util-linux
Version: 2.19.1-5
Severity: normal

New Upstream Version: util-linux 2.20

Release Notes: 
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.20/v2.20-ReleaseNotes

Util-linux 2.20 Release Notes
=============================

 The ddate(1) command is not built by default (see --enable-ddate).

Release highlights
------------------

agetty(8):
  - mingetty features have been merged to agetty

chrt(1), taskset(1):
  - supports new command line option "--all-tasks" to set or retrieve the 
    scheduling attributes of all the tasks (threads) for a given PID

dmesg(1):
  - supports new command line options: --clear, --console-on, --console-off,
    --ctime, --decode, --facility=<list>, --level=<list>, --show-delta,
    --notime, --kernel and --userspace

fdisk(8):
  - improved dialogs to be more user-friendly

findmnt(8), partx(8), lsblk(8)
  - support new command line option "--pairs" to enable key="value" 
    output format

findmnt(8):
  - supports new command line options "--poll" and "--timeout" to monitor
    /proc/self/mountinfo changes

ionice(1):
  - supports human-readable scheduling class names, for example:
    ionice -c best-effort $PID

kill(1):
  - supports new command line option "-q <sigval>" to use sigqueue(2)
  - supports real-time signals in formats RT<n>, RTMIN+<n> and RTMAX-<n>

libmount:
  - the API officially stable

lsblk(8):
  - supports new columns: 
      TYPE      - device type
      RQ-SIZE   - queue request size
      STATE     - device state (e.g. running, suspended)
      DALIGN    - discard alignment offset
      DISC-GRAN - discard granularity
      DISC-MAX  - discard max bytes
      DISC-ZERO - discard zeroes data
  - supports new command line option "-D" to print device discard topology

lscpu(8):
  - improved support for s390 boxes

mkfs.minix:
  - supports minix version 3

mountpoint(1):
  - this NEW COMMAND is libmount based re-implementation of mountpoint(1) from
    sysvinit suite

setarch(8):
  - supports new command line options "--uname-2.6" to enable UNAME26
    personality flag

simpleinit:
  - this set of deprecated utils has been REMOVED

wall(1):
  - support new command line option "--timeout" to specify write timeout to 
    terminals in seconds.

It's not supported to link with external (e.g. from e2fsprogs) libblkis and
libuuid any more.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages util-linux depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.41           Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                    1.16.0.3         Debian package management system
ii  initscripts             2.88dsf-13.11    scripts for initializing and shutt
ii  install-info            4.13a.dfsg.1-8   Manage installed documentation in 
ii  libblkid1               2.19.1-5         block device id library
ii  libc6                   2.13-18          Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libncurses5             5.9-1            shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libselinux1             2.0.98-1.1       SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  libslang2               2.2.4-3          S-Lang programming library - runti
ii  libuuid1                2.19.1-5         Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base                3.2-28           Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  tzdata                  2011h-4          time zone and daylight-saving time
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

util-linux recommends no packages.

Versions of packages util-linux suggests:
ii  console-tools              1:0.2.3dbs-70 Linux console and font utilities
ii  dosfstools                 3.0.9-1       utilities for making and checking 
ii  util-linux-locales         2.19.1-5      Locales files for util-linux

-- debconf information:
  util-linux/noauto-with-nonzero-passnum:



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