Bug#513236: please add access to all package versions via apt.package.Package
2009/1/28 Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:39:23AM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> Yes of course. I will see if I can do this. My plan would be to create a
>> class Version, and add an iterator versions to apt.package.Package.And
>> reimplement candidateX() and installedX() methods to use this class.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> By the way, my intended use case for this is actually not to only
> access the version as a string (which AFAICT is the only access you
> can get right now from the high-level API), but rather to access the
> whole set of information corresponding to a given version
> (dependencies and other fields).
>
> Just getting a list of version numbers is kinda useless unless you can
> "join" them with their information.
>
> Do you think it would be possible to have that as well?
That's exactly what I mean. The iterator would return Version objects which
provide the methods and properties currently available for candidates and
installed packages.
>
> Cheers.
>
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