Bug#139893: apt-cache search' Output of Release:
* Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> [020325 16:13]:
> On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Grant Bowman wrote:
> > don't have to go to http://packages.debian.org/apt to find out myself
> > each time. There are probably other ways to find this information,
> > but I still believe that the release should be part of the search
> > output text.
>
> Hmm. The search output is intended to show the raw package information. It
> is not really reasonable to express all the detailed release information
> in that format. You should use apt-cache policy to determine what versions
> come from where for a particular package. A single version may come from
> many different sources.
Hi Jason, thanks for your quick reply.
Exapanded or detailed release information is not what's needed here, I
agree with you. That would be unreasonable in this case.
While this output is a dump of raw data, it's a dump of raw data from
different sources all concatenated together. Some indication of the
omitted data-source context is what's needed in the output. It could
either be implemented on a per-package basis (preferably) or as a
separator between raw data dumps.
The man page states that 'apt-cache policy' "is ment [sic] to help debug
issues relating to the preferences file." In searching for a package I
don't care what the preferences file says. While this is related and
important information, I do not feel it is relevant to searching for
what packages are available.
I appreciate your efforts.
Respectfully,
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-- Grant Bowman <grantbow@grantbow.com>
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