On 1 February 2014 13:58, Daniel Hartwig <mand...@gmail.com> wrote: > The concern being that it is misleading to report "not installed" for > upgrades, though it may be technically correct, in a sense. It has been > suggested to make things more clear by changing the state field to say > "not installed, upgrade" or similar. >
The same concern is valid for multi-arch alternates, especially in the case of M-A: foreign packages that have an installed equivalent. > An alternative is for "aptitude show PKG" to display both the candidate > and installed versions, as apt-cache does. > Another alternate is to handle this similar to how the curses interface does, including a list of versions at the end. Such an approach has to be clear about informing the user which version is providing the details, as dependencies, etc. are prone to change. Regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
