Package: apt Version: 0.7.20.2+lenny2 Severity: wishlist There are a couple of related bugs, although none of them mentions the fields I’m interested in, Recommends: and Suggests:.
For me, a common use of apt-cache is to try to find related packages. There’s no other way with apt-cache to search those fields (although it’d be nice to search Depends: too, which is already possible). So e.g. “apt-cache search freepats” to find all packages that mention freepats in any way. I’d not mind if an extra option were required, but since the full package description is quite at liberty to mention other packages, I don’t see anything to be gained in excluding these other fields from what is searched as standard. -- Package-specific info: -- /etc/apt/preferences -- Package: * Pin: release a=lenny-backports Pin-Priority: 200 -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) -- -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2009.01.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii libc6 2.7-18lenny4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> (no description available) ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg-dev 1.14.29 Debian package development tools ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in ii python-apt 0.7.7.1+nmu1 Python interface to libapt-pkg ii wajig 2.0.38 simplified Debian package manageme -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
