Re: versions of packages available in other branches
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On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 12:42:45AM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Say I am running Etch and my /etc/apt/sources.list contains only entries
> related to Stable. Using command line interface, What is the efficient way
> to obtain information about versions of a package currently available in
> testing, unstable, experimental?
>
> Currently, I go to http://packages.debian.org/packagename to get the
> necessary information. But I am looking for a command line alternative.
>
> apt-show-versions -a does not seem to work in this case since all my entries
> in sources.list only point only to stable. I do not want to add
> testing/unstable entries in sources.list as I would like to track only Etch
> and nothing else on this machine.
>
> reportbug seem to be doing this some how. For example if I try to report a
> bug in stable's package, it tells me the version numbers available in
> testing/unstable. I am looking for something like this.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> thanks
> raju
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