Activity log for bug #224460

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2008-04-29 23:59:11 Rolf Leggewie bug added bug
2008-04-29 23:59:51 Rolf Leggewie description Binary package hint: apt The dependency information output from apt-cache is misleading. Depends, Recommends, Suggests and even Conflicts are all lumped together as a dependency. One example: Sorry, I was fooled by this output (the recommendation for libgwrap-runtime-dev does look a bit suspicious, though) $ apt-cache showpkg g-wrap Package: g-wrap Versions: 1.9.9-3 (/var/lib/apt/lists/Rie:9999_ubuntu_dists_hardy_universe_binary-i386_Packages) Description Language: File: /var/lib/apt/lists/Rie:9999_ubuntu_dists_hardy_universe_binary-i386_Packages MD5: 90f3aa27bd657aa17d94a99352e03024 Reverse Depends: guile-gnome0-dev,g-wrap 1.9.9 guile-g-wrap,g-wrap 1.9.9-1 Dependencies: 1.9.9-3 - guile-1.8 (0 (null)) guile-library (2 0.1.1) indent (0 (null)) libgwrap-runtime-dev (2 1.9.9-3) libgwrapguile-dev (0 (null)) Provides: 1.9.9-3 - Reverse Provides: (guile and guile-library are depends, indent and libgwrap-runtime-dev are a recommends while libgwrapguile-dev is a conflicts) Binary package hint: apt The dependency information output from apt-cache is misleading. Depends, Recommends, Suggests and even Conflicts are all lumped together as a dependency. One example: $ apt-cache showpkg g-wrap Package: g-wrap Versions: 1.9.9-3 (/var/lib/apt/lists/Rie:9999_ubuntu_dists_hardy_universe_binary-i386_Packages) Description Language: File: /var/lib/apt/lists/Rie:9999_ubuntu_dists_hardy_universe_binary-i386_Packages MD5: 90f3aa27bd657aa17d94a99352e03024 Reverse Depends: guile-gnome0-dev,g-wrap 1.9.9 guile-g-wrap,g-wrap 1.9.9-1 Dependencies: 1.9.9-3 - guile-1.8 (0 (null)) guile-library (2 0.1.1) indent (0 (null)) libgwrap-runtime-dev (2 1.9.9-3) libgwrapguile-dev (0 (null)) Provides: 1.9.9-3 - Reverse Provides: (guile and guile-library are depends, indent and libgwrap-runtime-dev are a recommends while libgwrapguile-dev is a conflicts)
2008-04-30 00:00:19 Rolf Leggewie title apt-cache show dependency information incorrectly apt-cache shows misleading dependency information
2008-04-30 06:19:55 Ilya Barygin apt: status New Confirmed
2008-07-22 22:43:20 Rolf Leggewie apt: importance Undecided Medium
2008-07-26 15:29:31 Dereck Wonnacott apt: status Confirmed In Progress
2008-07-26 15:29:31 Dereck Wonnacott apt: assignee dereck
2008-07-27 21:51:57 Dereck Wonnacott bug added attachment 'apt_0.7.14ubuntu4.debdiff' (apt_0.7.14ubuntu4.debdiff)
2008-07-27 21:52:15 Dereck Wonnacott bug added subscriber Ubuntu Sponsors for main
2008-07-27 21:55:10 Dereck Wonnacott apt: status In Progress Triaged
2008-07-27 21:55:10 Dereck Wonnacott apt: assignee dereck
2008-07-30 17:08:33 Sebastien Bacher bug added subscriber Michael Vogt
2008-07-31 12:27:28 Michael Vogt apt: status Triaged Incomplete
2009-02-03 04:18:08 Rolf Leggewie apt: status Incomplete Triaged
2009-02-03 04:18:08 Rolf Leggewie apt: statusexplanation Thanks for your bugreport and your patch. The patch looks ok, however I'm hesitant to change the output here as I don't know if and how it is used by scripts that call apt-cache showpkg and would break with a change in the output. What is your use-case for calling showpkg instead of show? Thanks, Michael
2009-02-09 22:20:25 Sebastien Bacher apt: assignee mvo
2009-07-20 18:17:00 Rolf Leggewie tags hardy hardy karmic
2015-03-05 02:27:44 Rolf Leggewie tags hardy karmic hardy karmic vivid
2015-03-05 02:29:35 Rolf Leggewie apt (Ubuntu): milestone ubuntu-15.03
2015-03-20 01:50:32 MegaBrutal bug added subscriber MegaBrutal
2017-08-21 06:23:56 Rolf Leggewie tags hardy karmic vivid hardy karmic trusty vivid