On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 01:10:33PM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag <[email protected]> was heard to say: > $ apt-cache show elinks-data | grep Conflicts > Conflicts: elinks (<< 0.11.3-1), elinks-lite > ^^^ <- correct > > $ aptitude show elinks-data | grep Conflicts > Conflicts: elinks (< 0.11.3-1), elinks-lite > ^^^ <- incorrect
I don't see this as a bug. aptitude is showing the user what the dependency means. The fact that we use "<<" instead of "<" internally due to historical bugs in dpkg is not relevant to the user. apt-cache is a query tool used to directly test and manipulate the low-level apt database; its "show" routine just dumps a section of the Packages file to screen. aptitude is showing you a processed and formatted version of the data, and that includes converting non-standard internal operators to standard mathematical operators. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
