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Bug#212028: marked as done (apt-cache uses "dependency" backards )

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and subject line "dependency" used backwards
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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4

apt-cache and its manual page uses the word "dependency" backwards.
This error makes the documentation hard to understand.


Per the The American Heritage Dictionary (via
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=dependency), a dependency
is:
    ...
    2. Something dependent or subordinate. 
    ...

That is, if A depends on B, A is a dependency of B.  (B is not a 
dependency of A.)


Note that the manual page uses "dependency" backwards:

    Forward (normal) dependencies are those packages upon which the 
    package in question depends...

apt-cache itself uses "dependency" backwards also:

    $ apt-cache showpkg apt
    Package: apt
    ...
    Reverse Depends: 
      debconf,apt 0.3.12.1
      ...
    Dependencies: 0.5.4 - libc6 (2 2.2.3-7) libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (0 (null))
       dpkg-dev (0 (null)) libapt-pkg-doc (3 0.3.7) libapt-pkg-dev (3 0.3.7) 
    ...

If apt-cache said "Depends on:" instead of "Dependencies:", it would be
correct.


Daniel
-- 
Daniel Barclay
dsb@smart.net

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Hi,

I'm closing this bug since it hasn't got any input since ages. The
related discussion in #212034 (closed) also indicates that #212049 is
a non-bug.

Christoph
-- 
cb@df7cb.de | http://www.df7cb.de/

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