Bug#513236: please add access to all package versions via apt.package.Package
Package: python-apt
Version: 0.7.8
Severity: wishlist
As far as I can deduce from the documentation of the high-level apt
interface [1], there is no way to access all available versions of the
current package: you are restricted to installed and candidate
versions only.
Yes, I can access all of them using the low-level apt_pkg API, but it
is way more cumbersome. I believe it'd make sense to have an iterator
over all available versions of the current package, in the high-level
API.
Sorry in advance if I missed the actual way to do that without leaving
the high-level interface.
Cheers.
[1] http://apt.alioth.debian.org/python-apt-doc/apt/package.html
by the way: thanks for that!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages python-apt depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6-4.6 0.7.20.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii apt-utils [libapt-inst-libc6. 0.7.20.1 APT utility programs
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.3-1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.3-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii lsb-release 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base version report
ii python 2.5.2-3 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-central 0.6.8 register and build utility for Pyt
python-apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages python-apt suggests:
pn python-apt-dbg <none> (no description available)
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