Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Hi,
The reason why this is not straightforward, as far as I can tell, is because there's no place where this information is saved. Packages can be installed by several means, including by hand with dpkg, and in the basic information (.deb itself, or Packages files separately) there is no information about where it came from. I think that apt (and aptitude through libapt) extract this information from the content of /var/lib/apt/lists/ , that is, the set of Packages coming from whatever is enabled in your sources.list, mapping backwards the candidate version to the source of the Packages file where the version appears. For packages installed by hand or obsolete (installed through regular repositories/mirrors but not present anymore in the Packages list of the repository), this information is not present anywhere in the system at the moment (again, as far as I can tell). So I think it would not be an easy undertaking in the way in which things work at the moment. Opinions about what to do? Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
