Hi Daniel, On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:58:33PM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote: >On 17 September 2012 20:38, Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote: >>>Notes: >>>- version information is not displayed for virtual/non-real packages >>>- version is always printed, even if CompareOp is 0, so as to be >>> consistent with output of 'Dependencies' for 'apt-cache showpkg <pkg>' >> >> Hi Sam, >> >> Awesome - I was just about to start hacking on the apt-cache code to >> do this and found you'd beaten me to it! :-) >> >> Apt maintainers - I need this fixed to allow me to fix #687949 in >> debian-cd, which is a serious bug affecting wheezy builds right >> now. Could you please prepare a build for upload with this patch >> added? If there's a worry about maybe breaking other users, maybe keep >> existing behaviour by default and add a "-v" or "--with-versions" >> flag to get the versions included? > >Can't you get the required information already from show and showpkg?
It's possible, but substantially harder to parse reliably. This is the whole point of depends AFAICS... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
