Bug#970907: SourceRecords: Please expose release attributes

[Christian Kastner <ckk@debian.org>]

Package: python3-apt
Version: 2.1.3
Severity: wishlist

For binary packages, it's possible to determine the releases a package
is in, together with its versions, etc. Based on the example from [1]:

  (1) a package exposes "version_list"
  (2)   a version exposes "file_list"
  (3)     a file as origin, component, archive, etc. attributes.

So for a given package "foo", it's possible to differentiate between a
origin="Debian" and origin!="Debian" package, or which release for that
matter.


SourceRecords do not have this capability. They expose "files" and
"index" attributes, but it does not look like these can be used to
determine which releases these source packages are part of.

So given a source package name, it's currently not possible to determine
whether this is origin="Debian", or even which release this source is a
part of (and in particular, which version it has in that particular
release).

I would greatly appreciate it if you would consider exposing the origin,
component, archive, codename and label attributes for SourceRecords as
well.

[1] https://apt-team.pages.debian.net/python-apt/library/apt_pkg.html#example-find-all-missing-dependencies