Bug#204156: 'apt-cache rdepends' also matches Replaces: and Suggests: fields

[Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.8
Severity: normal

Hi,

apt-cache rdepends also matches replaces: and suggests: fields.
For example:

joshk@firesong:~> apt-cache rdepends libbz2
libbz2
Reverse Depends:
  libcoin40
  bzip2

joshk@firesong:~> apt-cache show libcoin40 | grep bz2
Suggests: libfreetype6, libopenal0, zlib1g, libbz2
joshk@firesong:~> apt-cache show bzip2 | grep bz2
Replaces: libbz2(<<0.9.5d-3)

Probably also applies to 'Recommends' fields, I'd imagine. Either the
synopsis of the command should be changed or it should be rectified to
only show reverse dependencies. I understand that 'Suggests' is a
minor/harmless type of dependency; hence I suggest that it should be
immediately clearer in the output to the user which ones are Depends,
which ones are Suggests, etc.

-Josh

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux firesong 2.6.0-test2-mm2 #1 Wed Jul 30 23:22:36 PDT 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (ignored: LC_ALL set)

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.1-17     GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                     1:3.3.1-0rc2 GCC support library
ii  libstdc++5                  1:3.3.1-0rc2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

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