Control: retitle -1 aptitude: man page mentions old “-t” exceptions Control: tags -1 + confirmed
On 19 November 2012 17:22, Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpe...@web.de> wrote: > 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. The section describing “-t” in aptitude(8) describes an exception to the normal handling of this argument [1] for three commands. That exception is inconsistent with other aptitude commands, and apt, including the equivalent commands in apt-get and apt-cache. This made use of “-t” problematic and lead to unexpected results across combinations of commands. For example: $ cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: xsltproc Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 991 $ aptitude changelog -t experimental xsltproc [details from experimental version, due to “-t” exception for “aptitude changelog”] $ apt-get changelog -t experimental xsltproc [details from unstable, apt-get has no “-t” exceptions] $ su # aptitude install -t experimental xsltproc [installs unstable version, due to apt_preferences(5) and lack of “-t” exception for “install”] The “-t” exceptions have been removed to avoid this. That section of the man page will be updated. > > In previous versions of aptitude both commands resulted in the same > output. True. The intention of current versions is that “-t unstable <package>” is not necessarily equivalent to “<package>/unstable” in any commands, and only has effect via the usual apt_preferences(5) mechanism. All of aptitude and apt-get are now consistent in that regard, and the problematic section of the man page will be updated. Thanks for the report, I had missed that man page section when making this change. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
