apt:package-name?minver= syntax doesn't work for installed items

Hi Greg! Thanks for the bug report. This is currently implemented in maverick as follows:
- if the pkg is not installed and the available version >= minver, then no visible message is displayed.
- if the pkg is not installed and the available version < minver, then a message is displayed in the pkgstatus bar.
- if the pkg is installed, then in all cases no message is displayed as we already have text in the pkgstatus bar (installed 21/10/2033) and we have a version tag which displays the installed version slightly further down the screen.
It would be great if you could explain in a bit more detail what you were expecting to happen in each (or one) of these cases. Thanks a lot for you help!

My apologies, I only had only tested this on packages I had already installed.

However I think if the package is already installed then a message should be displayed regardless. I think this is what the specification says also.

I'm not sure what the anticipated use cases for the ?minver syntax is but I imagine the scenario of someone in the forums or Ask Ubuntu saying, "The newer versions of Banshee have that feature" with a ?minver link. I think it should be made to stand out on the resulting software centre screen that the version is not the one requested - whether the software be installed or not.

So when the package is already installed I would advocate either a second "bar" or for the single one to read "Installed on 2010-10-28, Version 0.7 or later not available".