Re: Upcoming version of apt-file - using apt-acquire and incompatibilities
The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> writes:
> $ apt-cache policy apt-file
> apt-file:
> Installed: 2.5.4
> Candidate: 2.5.4
> Version table:
> *** 2.5.4 0
> 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages
> 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> So my inference at this point is that in testing and stable, 'apt-get
> update' (and presumably 'apt update') does not update the apt-file
> index, but in experimental and possibly sid it does.
> IOW, this is not only new since I noticed the above, but new since
> _now_.
Yes... that's what the words in the subject header of this thread mean?
The word "upcoming" was important. :)
The new version of apt-file (and therefore the new index handling) is, as
stated in the first message in this thread, currently only in
experimental.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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