Bug#181073: marked as done (apt: maybe have apt-cache show failed installation information)
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From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>
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Subject: apt: maybe have apt-cache show failed installation information
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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/apt-cache
dpkg says this package is not installed, but rather Failed-config
# dpkg -l noffle
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==================-==================-===============
iF noffle 1.1.4-1 offline news server
therefore, it might be nice if we were to see some clue that all was
not hunky dory here too:
# apt-cache policy noffle
noffle:
Installed: 1.1.4-1
Candidate: 1.1.4-1
Version Table:
*** 1.1.4-1 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.1.3-1 0
500 http://debian.linux.org.tw sid/main Packages
1.0.1-1 0
500 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux ...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.19-k7 #1 Sun Oct 6 20:29:56 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-15 The GNU stdc++ library
-- no debconf information
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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 08:50:07 -0400
From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
To: 181073-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Doesn't make sense
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apt-cache policy is not supposed to show the status of an installed package.
apt-cache show does that.
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- mdz
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