On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:57:48PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:38:46AM +0900, Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> was heard to say: ... > > You need to tell in NEWS file that local scripts need to add "~n" before > > serch string to make it act as before under the new version. > > My question was: are there any such local scripts? It seems possible > to me that someone might have written a script that uses aptitude this > way, but I had trouble coming up with an actual reason I'd do that, > especially since the output from "aptitude search" is notably bad for > scripting. > I've hesitated to respond for just this issue. I can't come up with any good reason to script an aptitude search. Mainly because, what the heck would you do with the output in a script? If you parse the output to find a particular package, that sort of implies that you already know what the package is and could just (install|hold|purge|whatever) it anyway without bothering to search for it. I'm sure now I'll be called out and several will pipe up with myriad uses for aptitude search in a script... but that would be good as it's what you want. IOW, IMO, I think you're pretty safe to move ahead. Probably a direct email to Florian Kuzler would suffice since he seems to be the master of arbitrarily complex aptitude search expressions.... A
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