Control: tags -1 + pending Control: owner -1 !
2014-02-01 05:58 Daniel Hartwig:
The package details shown above are for the installed version. The manual states that "show" displays the candidate version, which is presently not the case due to open issues with version selection on the command line [1]. Details for the candidate version still show "not installed": $ aptitude show acpi | grep '^\(Pac\|Ver\|Sta\)' Package: acpi State: installed Version: 1.6-1 $ aptitude show acpi=CANDIDATE | grep '^\(Pac\|Ver\|Sta\)' Package: acpi State: not installed Version: 1.7-1 The concern being that it is misleading to report "not installed" for upgrades, though it may be technically correct, in a sense. It has been suggested to make things more clear by changing the state field to say "not installed, upgrade" or similar.
Fixed it in this way, so marking as +pending. Also, moved Version to be the second field rather than be buried as #6th or so, so maybe it's more noticeable that we're showing information about that version (and because most of the other fields depend on the version and not the package name). -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>
