Bug#156941: apt: Would be helpful if apt could display which packages from which distributions

[Andrew Ferrier <andrew@new-destiny.co.uk>]

> On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Andrew Ferrier wrote:
>
> > For a system where, say, both the unstable and testing
> > distributions are being used (I do this with a pin on testing),
> > it would be handy if apt could display output similar to dpkg -l
> > but with annotations indicating which distribution (stable,
> > testing, unstable, etc.) each package belonged to.
>
> Try apt-cache policy?

Does what I want for a single package, but would be great if a
list of these for all installed packages could be automatically
generated. apt-cache policy without any arguments describes the
current sources, which isn't the same thing.

Regards,
Andrew.

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