Package: apt-show-versions Version: 0.22.7 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
Please consider offering an option to output data delimited in a manner easily handled by other command line programs, possibly using a comma delimiter for csv output. The current output uses a combination of semicolons, slashes, and spaces to output data in a conversational manner which poses a challenge to using the data in scripts (especially since the semicolon character is also used in some debian version numbers - eg. libgcc1). Thus, instead of: libgcc1:amd64/ceres 1:8-20180308-1 upgradeable to 1:8-20180310-1 output for the option would be: libgcc1,amd64,ceres,upgradeable,1:8-20180308-1,1:8-20180310-1 Moving the "upgradable" to field 3 guarantees uniformity that all statuses will be in field 3, for cases of only one version number field to output. -- System Information: Distributor ID: Devuan Description: Devuan GNU/Linux unstable (ceres) Release: unstable Codename: ceres Architecture: x86_64 Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages apt-show-versions depends on: ii apt 1.6~beta1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.33 ii libperl5.26 [libstorable-perl] 5.26.1-5 ii perl 5.26.1-5 apt-show-versions recommends no packages. apt-show-versions suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- hkp://keys.gnupg.net CA45 09B5 5351 7C11 A9D1 7286 0036 9E45 1595 8BC0
