Answer of debian maintainer :
"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?"
Ralph Corderoy : i'm ready to forward him what you think about this.
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