Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.8.2-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
the command aptitude -t unstable show <package> actually shows information of the version of <package> in the default (here: testing) release, while the command aptitude show <package>/unstable works as described in the documentation of aptitude and shows the description of <package> in the unstable release. In previous versions of aptitude both commands resulted in the same output. -- Best regards, Jörg-Volker. -- Package-specific info: <#part type="text/plain" disposition=attachment description="Bug script output"> Terminal: eterm-color $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.6.8.2 compiled at Nov 7 2012 07:08:03 Compiler: g++ 4.7.2 Compiled against: apt version 4.12.0 NCurses version 5.9 libsigc++ version: 2.2.10 Ept support enabled. Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20110404 cwidget version: 0.5.16 Apt version: 4.12.0 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffa9fb9000) libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007faa95fa3000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007faa95d73000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007faa95b49000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007faa95944000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007faa95644000) libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 (0x00007faa953a3000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007faa94fbe000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007faa94da7000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007faa94afa000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 (0x00007faa948e1000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007faa946c5000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007faa943bd000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007faa9413b000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007faa93f25000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007faa93b9d000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007faa9399a000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007faa93796000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007faa93585000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007faa93380000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007faa93177000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007faa9692e000) <#/part> -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (5, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.6.6 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.6.8.2-1 ii libapt-pkg4.12 0.9.7.6 ii libboost-iostreams1.49.0 1.49.0-3.1 ii libc6 2.13-35 ii libcwidget3 0.5.16-3.4 ii libept1.4.12 1.0.9 ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-4 ii libncursesw5 5.9-10 ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.10-0.2 ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.14.1-1 ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-4 ii libtinfo5 5.9-10 ii libxapian22 1.2.12-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn apt-xapian-index <none> ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.6.8.2-1 pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> ii sensible-utils 0.0.7 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn debtags <none> pn tasksel <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org