Bug#675748: dselect no longer shows package descriptions, /var/lib/dpkg/available no longer contains them
Control: retitle -1 675748 apt-cache dumpavail omits full description, unlike apt-cache show
Control: tag -1 confirmed
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 05:47:05PM +0000, Adam M. Costello wrote:
> In two years this bug seems to have gotten no attention from the apt
> maintainer. Maybe it would help to change the bug description to
> "apt-cache dumpavail omits full description, unlike apt-cache show".
>
Thanks for the suggestion. It does not seem easy to fix, as
show uses entirely different code.
Sorry that it took two years for us to answer, but we do not
always respond to bug reports -- the team is very small, and
there are many bug reports that are like 10 years old.
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