Control: tags -1 - moreinfo + pending
2015-11-23 20:25 To Rogier:
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
Control: retitle -1 aptitude: No format string (%-escape) for package
architecture
Hi Rogier,
2014-09-06 00:07 Rogier:
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.11-1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
With the advent of multi-arch systems, the architecture of a
package shown by aptitude is no longer implicitly known. Please
add a format string for a package's architecture.
The %p one ("package name") shows for quite a while now also the
architecture for foreign packages, in the form of "libc6:sparc" vs
"libc6" for the native architecture.
It would be nice in a way to have a escape for architecture, but the
number of one-letter escapes is almost exhausted [1], and in particular
all of the "obvious" choices like %a %A %r %R are taken, and we have
quite a few requests to add fields like this yet (and for things that
don't have any alternative, like "source" or "origin").
Unless we start to use unusual characters or multiple letters, I am not
sure if this is possible to implement.
It needs more consideration, thus the +moreinfo.
[1] http://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s05s01.html
After consideration of other fields requested, added as '%e', so marking
as +pending.
This was also motivated because it was asked to me whether should field
was available for a use-case where they needed it, and '%p' does not
show the architecture for the "native"/primary one.
Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
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