What’s New In python-apt 1.6

Changed

• Methods of apt_pkg.DepCache now raise an exception if passed objects belonging to a different cache, in order to avoid segmentation faults or wrong behavior.

  Changed in version 1.6.1: Starting with 1.6.1 and 1.7~alpha1, the exception raised is apt_pkg.CacheMismatchError, and apt.cache.Cache will automatically remap open packages and versions to a new cache.

• Initial type hints

• apt_pkg.SourceRecords.files now returns a apt_pkg.SourceRecordsFile object with getters instead of a tuple (but it also emulates the tuple).

Bugfixes

• Various other fixes for segmentation faults

• apt/auth.py: Protect against race with gpg when removing tmpdir (Closes: #871585)