Christoph Anton Mitterer:
Hey. I took the liberty to forcemerge these two bugs (578727 and 525813) as they seem to be about the same thing. My suggestion would be that per default, the apt-file should print the package name with =version. Perhaps with the exception if only one version is available (or maybe there should be an option, that causes the =version to be omitted, if and only if, only on version is available). When specifying the package name I think it should also allow =version to be appended and follow the behaviour of e.g. apt-get cache, that is: - if no version is given, match all available versions - if one is given, match only that. Cheers, Chris.
HiOne challenge we have here is that a package can have multiple versions in a given suite at the same time; notably in unstable. There is no metadata that tells apt-file which file is in which version of the package. So in this case, even adding a version could produce the wrong result. I have no plan to support versioning for selecting the suite because of the above problem, because it will not fix the root issue - only gloss over it in some cases.
For people that want better support here, please request the archive maintainers to provide an index with versioning so that apt-file can do proper filtering.
Best regards, Niels