Bug#218995: Patch for #218995
Hi Daniel,
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:58:33PM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
>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?
It's possible, but substantially harder to parse reliably. This is the
whole point of depends AFAICS...
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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