Bug#589108: apt-cache: please search other fields
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.20.2+lenny2
Severity: wishlist
There are a couple of related bugs, although none of them mentions the
fields I’m interested in, Recommends: and Suggests:.
For me, a common use of apt-cache is to try to find related packages.
There’s no other way with apt-cache to search those fields (although
it’d be nice to search Depends: too, which is already possible).
So e.g. “apt-cache search freepats” to find all packages that mention
freepats in any way.
I’d not mind if an extra option were required, but since the full
package description is quite at liberty to mention other packages, I
don’t see anything to be gained in excluding these other fields from
what is searched as standard.
-- Package-specific info:
-- /etc/apt/preferences --
Package: *
Pin: release a=lenny-backports
Pin-Priority: 200
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.5
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2009.01.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.7-18lenny4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.29 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii python-apt 0.7.7.1+nmu1 Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii wajig 2.0.38 simplified Debian package manageme
-- no debconf information
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