> Regarding the search term > ?upgradable ~U Select packages that are installed and can be upgraded. > > 1. It's not clear if this is the exact same set of packages as: > safe-upgrade
It is not. The set of packages selected by ?upgradable is a superset of those which would be upgraded by either safe-upgrade or full-upgrade. It is not uncommon that a package could have a newer version available, but that neither safe- nor full-upgrade would upgrade it. Indeed, full-upgrade may even remove such a package due to conflicting other upgrades -- such a package can still be upgraded by selecting it manually, hence, it is still `upgradable'. So technically, `?upgradable' only considers if there is a candidate version available which is newer than the current version. It directly uses info from the package cache and this is a very quick, per-package operation. The current documentation for this rightly does not relate this to safe-/full-upgrade because the upgradable status is independent of these mechanisms. > 2. Even if it is, there's still no search term to match the packages > being upgraded or newly installed by: > > full-upgrade > ... > > 3. And then there is also two sets of packages that will be removed, > one for safe-upgrade and one for full-upgrade. So perhaps make search > terms for them too. I am not sure that the current matcher code does support this very easily. Though I wish anyone luck in trying. > Or maybe for all this one should just use -s and parse the results oneself... Perhaps a quick hack could be an option/script to change the output of simulate to return a straight list of upgraded, installed, or removed packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
