W-Packager

W-Packager is a packager similar to dpkg that can be used by anyone to create and maintain Debian packages under Linux or other Unix systems.

The aim of the project is primarily to have a workable version of a packager that can be compiled on many systems, including those that do not support fork(). At this time, W-Packager is used within UniGW. It can also be used under Linux.

This is a complete rewrite in C++. It uses boost (especially the iostreams) and boost-extras to read and write debian packages.

See the documentations on the Internet at http://unigw.sourceforge.net/ or in the package under doc (after you ran the dev/create_docs script once--which works great under Linux... need to be tested under MSYS!)

What is new in this release:

• Filenames are no longer URI escaped.

What is new in version 0.9.0:

• This version creates source packages, then binary packages from those source packages.
• In effect, wpkg has become an advanced build system.

What is new in version 0.8.1:

• This version patched problems where --fsys-tarfile would crash the tool with files over 64Kb, and where the control.info feature was not working because of an inverted test.
• Support for filenames and symbolic links of any length was added, avoiding the 155 + 100 limitation of the tar format.
• A few small bugs were fixed.

What is new in version 0.7.2:

• This version fixes several bugs in the compression/decompression code.
• Large packages or packages with the "wrong" size would break because of return code mishandling.
• A deconfiguration prerm script is run and the status is set as expected ("Unpackged"). Several fixes have been made to the libexpr library.
• This release is made using the libraries available as DLL/.so so one can use them in their software as such instead of using the archives.
• It fixes handling of many fields in the control file.
• You are strongly encouraged to upgrade if you were using 0.7.1 or older.

What is new in version 0.7.1:

• This version fixed bz2 compression and ar creation for large packages.
• The memfile maximum size is now 1Gb instead of 128Mb.
• A check was added for empty ar filenames.
• The lzma and xz tests were fixed so that such files can be added to data.tar.gz.
• Many dependency tests were fixed.
• --output-dir and --output-filename options were added for --install.
• Pre-configurations are now done as expected.
• --root was fixed so that a full path is always used.
• Several --remove bugs were fixed.
• Several installation definitions in CMakeLists.txt were fixed.

What is new in version 0.7.0:

• This could nearly be a 1.0 version since it is mostly complete (wpkg is very much equivalent to dpkg now, except for dselect capabilities which the authors do not intend to include in wpkg, anyway).
• This version does not depend on boost at all (all the dependencies (zlib and bz2) are included in the source package and linked as one tool without any DLL dependencies).