Package: apt-show-versions
Version: 0.08
Severity: important
apt-show-versions does not take into account the target distro and
outputs based on stable.
Or it looks like it reads somewhere that the package was installed from
stable (sarge at that time) and wants to upgrade to newest stable
package
Example...
gettext-base/stable upgradeable from 0.14.4-2 to 0.16.1-1
* oldstable (base): GNU Internationalization utilities for the base
system
0.14.4-2: alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc
s390 sparc
* stable (utils): GNU Internationalization utilities for the base
system
0.16.1-1: alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390
sparc
* testing (utils): GNU Internationalization utilities for the base
system
0.16.1-1: alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc
s390 sparc
* unstable (utils): GNU Internationalization utilities for the base
system
0.16.1-1: alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 kfreebsd-i386 m68k mips
mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
0.14.5-2: hurd-i386
$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
APT::Default-Release "sarge";
$ sudo apt-get upgrade -s
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
$ apt-show-versions -u | wc -l
185
$ apt-show-versions | wc -l
222
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