Thank you for your reply ! I'll forward this to the original reporter and try to give you feedback as soon as possible.
Jérôme On Feb 12, 2008 9:18 PM, Andreas Hoenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > (Luckily your report can be reproduced in Debian, which eases handling > for me ;-) ) > > I'm not sure whether you describe a bug or a feature, let me cite from the > manual page (with emphasis added): > > "for the installed and available package *versions* ... > upgrade options ... of the selected *package*" > > IMHO this talks about available versions, not about available packages. > The regex option is something like an add-on with its own semantics. If > you ask for a specific package, you will get information even if it is > not installed. But if you ask for packages matching a regular > expression, the output is restricted to the available versions of the > installed packages. An example why I prefer it this way (executed with > SVN head): > > Current behaviour: > > $ ./apt-show-versions -r ^texlive > texlive/testing uptodate 2007-13 > texlive-base/testing uptodate 2007-13 > texlive-base-bin/testing uptodate 2007.dfsg.1-2 > texlive-common/testing uptodate 2007-13 > texlive-doc-base/testing uptodate 2007-3 > texlive-extra-utils/testing uptodate 2007.dfsg.1-2 > texlive-fonts-recommended/testing uptodate 2007-13 > texlive-lang-cyrillic/testing uptodate 2007.dfsg.3-1 > texlive-latex-base/testing uptodate 2007-13 > texlive-latex-extra/testing uptodate 2007.dfsg.1-1 > texlive-latex-recommended/testing uptodate 2007-13 > texlive-math-extra/testing uptodate 2007.dfsg.1-1 > texlive-pictures/testing uptodate 2007-13 > > Your suggested behaviour: > > $ ./apt-show-versions -r ^texlive > texlive/testing uptodate 2007-13 > texlive-base/testing uptodate 2007-13 > texlive-base-bin/testing uptodate 2007.dfsg.1-2 > texlive-base-bin-doc not installed > texlive-bibtex-extra not installed > texlive-chemistry not installed > texlive-common/testing uptodate 2007-13 > texlive-context not installed > texlive-doc-base/testing uptodate 2007-3 > texlive-doc-bg not installed > texlive-doc-cs+sk not installed > texlive-doc-de not installed > texlive-doc-el not installed > texlive-doc-en not installed > texlive-doc-es not installed > texlive-doc-fi not installed > texlive-doc-fr not installed > texlive-doc-it not installed > texlive-doc-ja not installed > texlive-doc-ko not installed > texlive-doc-mn not installed > texlive-doc-nl not installed > texlive-doc-pl not installed > texlive-doc-pt not installed > texlive-doc-ru not installed > texlive-doc-th not installed > texlive-doc-tr not installed > texlive-doc-uk not installed > texlive-doc-vi not installed > texlive-doc-zh not installed > texlive-extra-utils/testing uptodate 2007.dfsg.1-2 > texlive-font-utils not installed > texlive-fonts-extra not installed > texlive-fonts-extra-doc not installed > texlive-fonts-recommended/testing uptodate 2007-13 > texlive-fonts-recommended-doc not installed > texlive-formats-extra not installed > texlive-full not installed > texlive-games not installed > texlive-generic-extra not installed > texlive-generic-recommended not installed > texlive-humanities not installed > texlive-humanities-doc not installed > texlive-lang-african not installed > texlive-lang-all not installed > texlive-lang-arab not installed > texlive-lang-armenian not installed > texlive-lang-croatian not installed > texlive-lang-cyrillic/testing uptodate 2007.dfsg.3-1 > texlive-lang-czechslovak not installed > texlive-lang-danish not installed > texlive-lang-dutch not installed > texlive-lang-finnish not installed > texlive-lang-french not installed > texlive-lang-german not installed > texlive-lang-greek not installed > texlive-lang-hebrew not installed > texlive-lang-hungarian not installed > texlive-lang-indic not installed > texlive-lang-italian not installed > texlive-lang-latin not installed > texlive-lang-manju not installed > texlive-lang-mongolian not installed > texlive-lang-norwegian not installed > texlive-lang-other not installed > texlive-lang-polish not installed > texlive-lang-portuguese not installed > texlive-lang-spanish not installed > texlive-lang-swedish not installed > texlive-lang-tibetan not installed > texlive-lang-ukenglish not installed > texlive-lang-vietnamese not installed > texlive-latex-base/testing uptodate 2007-13 > texlive-latex-base-doc not installed > texlive-latex-extra/testing uptodate 2007.dfsg.1-1 > texlive-latex-extra-doc not installed > texlive-latex-recommended/testing uptodate 2007-13 > texlive-latex-recommended-doc not installed > texlive-latex3 not installed > texlive-math-extra/testing uptodate 2007.dfsg.1-1 > texlive-metapost not installed > texlive-metapost-doc not installed > texlive-music not installed > texlive-omega not installed > texlive-pdfetex not installed > texlive-pictures/testing uptodate 2007-13 > texlive-pictures-doc not installed > texlive-plain-extra not installed > texlive-pstricks not installed > texlive-pstricks-doc not installed > texlive-publishers not installed > texlive-publishers-doc not installed > texlive-science not installed > texlive-science-doc not installed > texlive-xetex not installed > > The first output exactly tells me what I want to know: my texlive > installation is uptodate. The second output is just cluttered. Thus I > hesistate to change the current behaviour. On the other hand your use > case seems reasonable to me, thus I could imagine to provide a modified > regex option (-R) that works in the way you suggest (under the > precondition that the package owner does not have any objections - I'm > only co-maintainer, a-s-v stays his child). > > What do you think? > > Regards, Andreas > -- > Andreas Hoenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > GPG: 1024D/B888D2CE > A4A6 E8B5 593A E89B 496B > 82F0 728D 8B7E B888 D2CE >
