On Thu, 26 Mar 2015, David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 08:04:24PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > I just have discovered that our scripts broke on jessie because of now > > --installed apparently is not supported, although still referred to in the > > manpage and changelog doesn't point to any deprecation. So I just assume > > that > > it is a bug: this functionality works on wheezy but not on jessie
> > $> apt-cache search --installed xserver > > E: Command line option --installed is not understood > --installed is still supported, but only by the commands which actually > support it (which is just depends/rdepends at the moment). should have not I RTFM more carefully? ;-) Thanks David > Accepting options on all commands even through they aren't understood > was deemed confusing, if not downright dangerous: Just look at the > output you provided… I doubt you have all (potentially even any) > package installed which was listed in your wheezy-chroot. indeed... I was not spotted that behavior because the output was anyways piped to dpkg --purge ;) It just was more semantically correct to list only installed packages. And such operation seems to be in demand, hence CCing now found #775771 (morning search is always better ;-) ) > Now, imagine I come along and actually implement support for this flag: > That will drastically change the behavior and might silently break your > script until you figure out that apt now does what you asked it to do… I don't think so -- if people explicitly asked for --installed, they meant it. So if anything, it should only become better ;-) > So the fix is indeed simple and can be applied for any Debian release: > Please fix your script. ;) > Note: It sounds like we are talking about your own local script hence > this blant suggestion. [...] well -- the script is a part of the source package which is stuck in NEW for ... 7 months now, thus can't reportbug, but already fixed it up ;) -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D. http://neuro.debian.net http://www.pymvpa.org http://www.fail2ban.org Research Scientist, Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept. Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
