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Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.3-3.2
Severity: wishlist
Canonical places a "Supported" field in their Packages files,
indicating how long they (nominally) provide support for the package
in question. I can show this field in search results:
$ grep-aptavail -ns Package,Supported -F Provides x-display-manager | fmt |
tr -s '\n'
kdm 3y
lxdm
slim
wdm
xdm
gdm 3y
and I can search by it (doesn't actually work in grep-status):
$ grep-status -ns Package -F Supported 5y
I would like to do these things in aptitude instead of dctrl-tools.
For that to work, I think aptitude needs a search term[0]
(e.g. ?supported(5y)) and a format string[1] (e.g. %L) for the
Supported field.
[0] http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s03s05.html
[1] http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s04s01.html
-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.6.3 compiled at Oct 16 2010 18:18:04
Compiler: g++ 4.4.5
Compiled against:
apt version 4.10.1
NCurses version 5.7
libsigc++ version: 2.2.4.2
Ept support enabled.
Gtk+ support disabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20100313
cwidget version: 0.5.16
Apt version: 4.10.1
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff0bbff000)
libapt-pkg.so.4.10 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.10 (0x00007f9a9d9f4000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f9a9d7a1000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f9a9d59b000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f9a9d2cf000)
libept.so.1 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1 (0x00007f9a9d07b000)
libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f9a9cc9a000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f9a9ca83000)
libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f9a9c7ec000)
libboost_iostreams.so.1.42.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.42.0
(0x00007f9a9c5d0000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f9a9c3b4000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f9a9c0aa000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f9a9be27000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f9a9bc11000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f9a9b8b0000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f9a9b6ac000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f9a9b4a8000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f9a9b2a3000)
libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f9a9b093000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x00007f9a9ae8b000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f9a9dd06000)
Terminal: screen
$DISPLAY not set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude linkage:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg4.10] 0.8.9 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libboost-iostreams1.42. 1.42.0-4 Boost.Iostreams Library
ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcwidget3 0.5.16-3 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libept1 1.0.4 High-level library for managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.5.1-7 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20100313-4 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.4.2-1 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.3-1 SQLite 3 shared library
ii libstdc++6 4.5.1-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxapian22 1.2.3-2 Search engine library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii apt-xapian-index 0.41 maintenance and search tools for a
ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.6.3-3.2 English manual for aptitude, a ter
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2.1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii sensible-utils 0.0.5 Utilities for sensible alternative
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii debtags 1.7.11 Enables support for package tags
pn tasksel <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi,
2012-09-15 12:24 Daniel Hartwig:
"Trent W. Buck" <[email protected]> wrote:
Canonical places a "Supported" field in their Packages files,
indicating how long they (nominally) provide support for the package
in question. I can show this field in search results:
[…]
I would like to do these things in aptitude instead of dctrl-tools.
For that to work, I think aptitude needs a search term[0]
(e.g. ?supported(5y)) and a format string[1] (e.g. %L) for the
Supported field.
Hello
Forwarded to Launchpad where perhaps an Ubuntu dev. will pick up this
feature request.
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1051224>
I am going to close this bug report for the following reasons:
- It's about an Ubuntu-specific feature. Ubuntu is not just another
derivative, but we do not have the humanpower to support features for
specific fields that other derivatives decide to add.
- It's been forwarded to Ubuntu for more than 3 years and they didn't
take any interest either
- We're severely short on one-letter format strings and so on, and we
are already having problems e.g. for architecture and source packages,
%L for example could be used for packages marked for 'reinstalL' (same
as the letter 'L' to take the reinstall action), so dedicating letter
for this is not to be done lightly.
- It's been a long-time wishlist item which has seen no action or even
comments, and I do not have the intention to work on it for the time
being, so it's just not useful to keep it open indefinitely.
Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
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