On Lu, 05 mai 14, 04:05:28, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > If one is watching for new packages it also makes sense to clear the > > list from time to time: > > > > aptitude --forget-new > > Thanks for the explanation. I stored "~N" in my memory but I've never > tried it even though I've often wondered about it... The "forget-new" > verb clears up my question(s). By the way, it's "aptitude forget-new", > without the hyphens. I'd never noticed this option before! Oh, thanks for spotting it, I wrote that from memory (shame on me). > I don't understand why you wouldn't want to restrict the search to > wheezy-backports. If the OP only wants to see new wheezy-backports > packages, why should his search be cluttered up with new wheezy, > wheezy-updates, and wheezy/updates packages? Personally I don't care, it's up to the OP, but as far as I'm concerned the additional filtering is not worth the effort. On my stable install where new packages haven't been cleared in a while (179 in total) I have only 2 new packages that do *not* come from backports (icedove-l10n-hr and icedove-l10n-hy-am). Actually I'm quite surprised about these two even showing up, given that for Debian "stable" means "not changing", but I can understand why they were allowed anyway: $ apt-cache policy icedove icedove: Installed: (none) Candidate: 24.4.0-1~deb7u1 Version table: 24.4.0-1~deb7u1 0 500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/main i386 Packages 10.0.12-1 0 500 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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