Bug#218995: Patch for #218995
On 17 September 2012 20:38, Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
>>Notes:
>>- version information is not displayed for virtual/non-real packages
>>- version is always printed, even if CompareOp is 0, so as to be
>> consistent with output of 'Dependencies' for 'apt-cache showpkg <pkg>'
>
> Hi Sam,
>
> Awesome - I was just about to start hacking on the apt-cache code to
> do this and found you'd beaten me to it! :-)
>
> Apt maintainers - I need this fixed to allow me to fix #687949 in
> debian-cd, which is a serious bug affecting wheezy builds right
> now. Could you please prepare a build for upload with this patch
> added? If there's a worry about maybe breaking other users, maybe keep
> existing behaviour by default and add a "-v" or "--with-versions"
> flag to get the versions included?
Can't you get the required information already from show and showpkg?
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