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10. By Jonathan Thomas on 2010-04-18

* Specify that the LockFailedException is from the apt.cache library
  (LP: #546708)
* Implement encoding wrappers to fix the encoding of exception error
  messages (LP: #468615)

9. By Jonathan Thomas on 2010-02-17

* Catch SystemErrors in the markInstall function, rather than letting them
  crash install-package (LP: #435675)
* Catch instances where another process takes the packaging lock after we
  did our initial check (LP: #441042)
* Catch exceptions caused by malformed sources.list files and show the user
  instead of crashing (LP: #496305)
* Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.4

8. By Jonathan Thomas on 2010-02-17

* Catch SystemErrors in the markInstall function, rather than letting them
  crash install-package (LP: #435675)
* Catch instances where another process takes the packaging lock after we
  did our initial check (LP: #441042)
* Catch exceptions caused by malformed sources.list files and show the user
  instead of crashing (LP: #496305)
* Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.4
* Add dependency on ${misc:Depends} to satisfy a lintian error

7. By Harald Sitter on 2009-09-06

* Add desktop file so that kdesudo can display a proper name and icon
* Switch rules to Kubuntu's global cdbs make file for message extraction
  + Don't depend on kdesdk-scripts but pkg-kde-tools
* Add misc:Depends and bump standards version

6. By Harald Sitter on 2009-08-20

Make install-package attachable to another window (similar to kdesudo)
This enables better use by applications like AptUrl

5. By Jonathan Riddell on 2009-06-17

Fix crashes when apt is in inconsistent state, closes LP: #335897
catch SystemError and apt.cache.FetchFailedException on commit/update.
SystemError: something went wrong during dpkg, http404 etc. LP: #345696, #360288
apt.cache.FetchFailedException: LP: #364494, #342041
from Florian Reinhard

4. By Michael Vogt on 2009-03-19

* install-package.py:
  - more robust against broken dependencies (LP: #341334)

3. By Jonathan Riddell on 2008-10-15

* Fix i18n
* Fix complaint in dialogue which it thinks is HTML but isn't
* Add an update mode to reload package list
* Fix icon
* Work around i18n complaining about not enough arguments for plural
* quit manually to stop crash

2. By Jonathan Riddell on 2008-08-26

Allow to install/uninstall multiple packages

1. By Jonathan Riddell on 2008-08-23

Initial package