(deity@lists.debian.org is CCed)
Hi Christoph,
as you might be aware, I am currently rewriting apt-show-versions
in C++ for integration into APT itself in Jessie. The current state
can be found in a git repository at:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/jak/apt-show-versions.git
git://anonscm.debian.org/users/jak/apt-show-versions.git
Please let me know what you think about it. You can also find me in
the #debian-apt channel on OFTC for real-time communication.
Reasons
=======
One user complained that apt-show-versions is too slow. The rewrite
now takes 90 - 100ms, whereas apt-show-versions takes more than
1 seconds. Support for multi-arch is another reason.
Goal
====
Merge the rewrite into APT after the wheezy release, and provide
a transitional apt-show-versions package.
Backwards Compatibility
=======================
For the following options behaviour changes:
-nh Replaced by -n, as we use APT's command-line parser
-stf|--status-file Removed. Did not work anyway.
-ld|--list-dir Removed. Did not work anyway.
-r|--regex Removed. Every argument containing .?+*|[^$ is
considered a regular expression
-R|--regex-all Only arguments considered regular expressions (as
above) are treated as regular expressions
-a|--allversions Does not know which releases are used on the
computer and just prints all available sources
instead -- at least for now, I'd like to get this
fixed.
I think that this is a reasonable amount of breakage.
Otherwise, the behaviour should be identical to apt-show-version's
or better (in terms of multi-arch, or Bug#613965).
--
Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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