Eric Hanchrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Often when people report bugs, they include something like this:
>
> Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
> ii libc6 2.1.3-7 GNU C Library: Shared
> libraries an
> ii libncurses5 5.0-6 Shared libraries for
> terminal hand
> ii libstdc++2.10 1:2.95.2-7 The GNU stdc++ library
>
>
> I can't believe that they typed all that in by hand; I want to believe
> that there is a handy tool which, when invoked like this
>
> $ handy-tool dpkg
>
> emits the output that I see above. But I know of no such tool; the
> closest thing I've found is pkg-order.
>
> How do they do it?
The `bug' program automagically looks up the dependencies of the
package for which you are reporting a bug, and prints that listing of
the dependencies and their versions. I haven't used the newer program
`reportbug', but I believe it does so as well.
Bob
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