Hi, > Ralf Jung wrote: >> attached you can find a screenshot of aptitude showing some version of >> some package. I wish you good luck trying to figure out which version it >> is actually showing. Hint: It's not "2.5.4", even saw it says so *twice* >> in the title... > > The dependencies shown are clearly those of apt-file from experimental > as it depends on apt >= 1.1~.
You won the prize ;-) But, seriously, I hope you agree that deducing the current version this way is not all that great. I'm sure I can find packages where even you will have a hard time figuring it out^^. > But IIRC the two versions shown in the upper right corner are the > installed and the to-be-installed version. Which IMHO is correct, but > admittedly confusing. I agree with the installed version. I'm not so sure about the to-be-installed one, why should that be so tremendously important? I can also see that when I scroll all the way down to the list of all versions. But, anyway, there's enough place for that on most screens. > Maybe those two versions in this view should be prefixed with > "Installed:" and "Available:" and maybe complemented with a third > version number prefixed with "Shown:". Maybe the shown version should be displayed right after the package name, "apt-file 3.0~exp". The two other version numbers should somehow be explained, I agree - possibly with a short a text as possible. Maybe "Cur" and "New" or so? Also, if they are the same, IMHO showing both is totally not necessary. Kind regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
