Re: package names

[michael <cs@networkingnewsletter.org.uk>]

On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 03:55 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-09-03 03:11, michael wrote:
> > had a quick looks about but can't see what {a} means in package names 
> > (I've just upgraded from etch to lenny)
> > 
> > would somebody point me to the relevant documentation?
> 
> Can you show us an example?

10:17:57 ~$ sudo aptitude install bogofilter
[sudo] password for mkb: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done  
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bogofilter bogofilter-bdb{a} bogofilter-common{a} libgsl0ldbl{a} 
0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 1364kB of archives. After unpacking 3678kB will be used.

Thanks, M