Package: aptitude
State: installed
Version: 0.2.15.9-2
Priority: important
Hello
"aptitude show" says
Package: aptitude
State: installed
Version: 0.4.1-1.1
but installed is actually 0.2.15.9-2!
The info aptitude delivers are missleading wrong
when the "installed" does not belong to the shown version number.
There is no hint that the 0.4.1-1.1 belongs to "testing".
Too aptitude accepts "-t <>" but ignores it without warning or error.
An ignored because "unkown" parameter should give at least a warning IMHO.
example with backupninja but other packages aptitude shows
an unrelated version number too, for example
~# aptitude show aptitude
Package: aptitude
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 0.4.1-1.1
Priority: important
Section: admin
Maintainer: Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Uncompressed Size: 7361k
Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.11, libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.0),
libncursesw5
(>= 5.4-5), libsigc++-2.0-0c2a (>= 2.0.2), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.0)
Recommends: aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc
Suggests: libparse-debianchangelog-perl, tasksel, debtags
Description: terminal-based apt frontend
aptitude is a terminal-based apt frontend with a number of useful features,
including: a
mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a flexible manner, dselect-like
persistence of
user actions, the ability to retrieve and display the Debian changelog of
most packages,
and a command-line mode similar to that of apt-get.
aptitude is also Y2K-compliant, non-fattening, naturally cleansing, and
housebroken.
~# apt-cache show aptitude
Package: aptitude
Priority: important
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 7188
Maintainer: Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.4.1-1.1
Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.11, libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.0),
libncursesw5 (>= 5.4-5), libsigc++-2.0-0c2a (>= 2.0.2), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.0)
Recommends: aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc
Suggests: libparse-debianchangelog-perl, tasksel, debtags
Filename: pool/main/a/aptitude/aptitude_0.4.1-1.1_i386.deb
Size: 2605972
MD5sum: 4c5ae737f68d5169fd451d9c3c5ea436
Description: terminal-based apt frontend
aptitude is a terminal-based apt frontend with a number of useful
features, including: a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a
flexible manner, dselect-like persistence of user actions, the
ability to retrieve and display the Debian changelog of most
packages, and a command-line mode similar to that of apt-get.
.
aptitude is also Y2K-compliant, non-fattening, naturally cleansing,
and housebroken.
Tag: admin::configuring, admin::package-management, interface::text-mode,
made-of::lang:c++, role::sw:application, suite::debian, uitoolkit::ncurses,
use::browsing, use::configuring, works-with::software:package
Package: aptitude
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 5624
Maintainer: Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.2.15.9-2
Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.3, libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libgcc1 (>=
1:3.4.1-3), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1), libsigc++-1.2-5c102, libstdc++5 (>=
1:3.3.4-1)
Recommends: aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc
Filename: pool/main/a/aptitude/aptitude_0.2.15.9-2_i386.deb
Size: 1844160
MD5sum: 98106b573bd1f4a23a4423dd5d6edd47
Description: terminal-based apt frontend
aptitude is a terminal-based apt frontend with a number of useful
features, including: a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a
flexible manner, dselect-like persistence of user actions, the
ability to retrieve and display the Debian changelog of most
packages, and extreme flexibility and customization.
.
aptitude is also Y2K-compliant, non-fattening, naturally cleansing,
and housebroken.
~# dkpg -l aptitude
-bash: dkpg: command not found
~# dpkg -l aptitude
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-================-================-=======================================
=========
ii aptitude 0.2.15.9-2 terminal-based apt frontend
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