Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: minor I had expected that apt-get -s remove packagename would display the currently installed version of packages to be removed. Instead, the version number of the best downloadable/installable version is displayed.
Example: Assume we have example-package version 1.23 installed. # apt-get -s remove example-package Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: example-package 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Remv example-package (1.23 Debian:3.0r2/stable) is as expected. But after apt-get update (without apt-get upgrade, i.e. with no changes made to the installation!), I might get # apt-get -s remove example-package Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: example-package 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Remv example-package (2.46 Debian:3.0r2/stable) Hence, the version displayed is the one available for upgrade, not the one that would be removed by apt-get remove example-package. -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux ns.blasberg-computer.de 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Mon Apr 12 11:37:50 UTC 2004 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-11woody1 The GNU stdc++ library
