Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.11-7
Severity: minor
If a user does
$ aptitude show package1 package2...
and one of them is a virtual package, it "glues itself onto the header of
the following package", because it is missing its blank line at bottom.
# aptitude show twitter-bootstrap libtwitter-api-perl | colrm 14 | head
Package: twit
State: not a
Provided by:
Package: libt
Version: 1.00
State: not in
Priority: opt
Section: perl
Maintainer: D
Architecture:
So it takes a skilled eye to realize that they are actually looking at
two packages. So please add the newline.
Let's look at the newline situation at the bottom of various packages listings,
# for i in tw... ; do echo ===== $i; aptitude show $i|nl -b a|tail -n 3; done
===== twittering-mode
34 Homepage: http://twmode.sf.net/
35
36
===== twitterwatch
19 Homepage: https://github.com/chaica/twitterwatch
20
21
===== twitter-bootstrap
1 Package: twitter-bootstrap
2 State: not a real package
3 Provided by: libjs-twitter-bootstrap (2.0.2+dfsg-10)
===== libtwitter-api-perl
38 Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Twitter-API
39
40
===== libnet-twitter-perl
23 Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Net-Twitter
24 Tags: devel::lang:perl, devel::library, implemented-in::perl,
role::shared-lib, web::microblog
25
In fact from our small sample we see if there are no e.g., Tags, an
inconsistent second newline is appended to the bottom too!
