Status for 2019-08-02 -> 2019-08-08

• Hack around broken procenv in eoan breaking sbuild and pbuilder autopkgtest everywhere
• hotfix python-apt so snapd builds in eoan (LP: #1837926), needs a cleaner fix, but that needs work in bindings
• Released apt 1.9.2
• Verify dpkg SRUs
• Answered questions about which apt binary packages need upgrading needed for trusty ESM
• Some initial analysis and workarounds in autopkgtest for the i386 autopkgtest queue being stuck, which turned out to be a gnutls bug (LP: #1839354)

Status for 2019-08-09 -> 2019-08-15

• uploaded gpgme1.0 to bionic to fix FTBFS there (LP: #1813581)
• otherwise, it's been kind of an *apt* week.
• released apt 1.8.3, (fake-ish)-synced to disco, 1.8.3~deb10u1 for Debian stable (LP: #1838771 amongst others)

• fixed a segmentation fault introduced in apt 1.9.2 (https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/merge_requests/73, LP: #1839714)

• wondering why dpkg SRU was released on disco and xenial but not bionic (that's not a sane order ;))

• learned more about AppStream and what the needs are on a package management daemon side

• started preparing to run black on python-apt code

also as a special announcement: APT PATTERNS (for packages) ARE HERE! (https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/merge_requests/74)

• Purge config files: apt purge ?config-files
• Remove autoremovable packages: apt remove ?garbage
• Install packages with weird queries: apt install ?or(?name(^apt$),?and(?true,?false))
• Show all upgradable packages: apt-cache show ?upgradable
• Caveats: It's not working for search and inside preferences files so far

• https://people.debian.org/~jak/apt-search-terms.html contains more info (but is badly rendered; it's apt-patterns(5) manpage).

• Patterns for versions coming at a later point, but trying to get them in before feature freeze
• Will be writing a blog post about that stuff, it's super exciting.