Bug#202493: Wontfix

[Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>]

Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:

> tags 202493 wontfix
> severity 202493 wishlist
> thanks
>
> apt-cache show has a defined output format; it does not carry on a plain
> language dialogue with the user.  apt-cache showpkg already provides this
> information.

In IMHO this is not right. When we use apt-cache show <package> we
think this will return some useful information and in this case if we
use:

$: apt-cache show awk 


We don't receive any information. This looks like an APT mistake and
for many users can be dificult understand the reason. 

The present patch provide the same way of install to virtual packages
so the enduser will know witch packages provide this and can choice
one to be displayed.

This are a more clean way to display this information and looks more
right in IMHO.

TIA,
Otavio

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