Re: Showing Package Versions on Upgrade
Any feedback regarding this idea..?
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From: M.Hanny Sabbagh
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2018 22:10
To: Julian Andres Klode
Cc: deity@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Showing Package Versions on Upgrade
What I am suggesting is implementing/using such an option by default when running "upgrade" instead of using any special options or arguments by the user.
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From: Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode@gmail.com> on behalf of Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2018 22:04
To: M.Hanny Sabbagh
Cc: deity@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Showing Package Versions on Upgrade
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 01:34:16PM +0000, M.Hanny Sabbagh wrote:
> Hello.
>
> When preforming a typical upgrade process by APT, the following output is shown:
>
> mhsabbagh@pc:~$ sudo apt upgrade
> ....
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> gnome-disk-utility, gnome-keyring
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> ...
>
> IMHO, this output is not very useful because you can't know the
> current version of that package, nor the newly available version.
> Such information may be important before taking the decision on
> whether to upgrade or not. I know that the "list --upgradable"
> option could be used to view such information, but viewing it
> directly for the user on the upgrade process makes it easier and
> more convenient.
>
> Thus, I suggest implementing something similar to:
>
> mhsabbagh@pc:~$ sudo apt upgrade
> ....
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> gnome-disk-utility (2.5.1) ---> (2.6)
> gnome keyring (3.3) ---> (3.3.1)
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
That's the -V option.
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