Control: reopen -1 Control: tags -1 = confirmed Control: severity -1 minor Control: owner -1 ! Control: retitle -1 [cmdline] "show UPGRADE" misleads by reporting "not installed"
[To clarify this report. Also, taking ownership as it is entangled with wip-cmdline.] "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <[email protected]> wrote: > # aptitude versions '^apt$' > Package apt: > i 0.9.14.2 100 > p 0.9.15 unstable 500 > > # aptitude show apt > Package: apt > Essential: yes > State: installed > Automatically installed: no > Version: 0.9.14.2 The package details shown above are for the installed version. The manual states that "show" displays the candidate version, which is presently not the case due to open issues with version selection on the command line [1]. Details for the candidate version still show "not installed": $ aptitude show acpi | grep '^\(Pac\|Ver\|Sta\)' Package: acpi State: installed Version: 1.6-1 $ aptitude show acpi=CANDIDATE | grep '^\(Pac\|Ver\|Sta\)' Package: acpi State: not installed Version: 1.7-1 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. An alternative is for "aptitude show PKG" to display both the candidate and installed versions, as apt-cache does. The wip-cmdline branch resolves the version selection issues and will make this issue with State more prominent again. The issue will be tended to in a continuation of that work. Regards Daniel Hartwig [1] http://bugs.debian.org/687474 _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
