[Aptitude-devel] Bug#402454: aptitude: ~O definition and behaviour

[Axel Beckert]

clone 402454 -1
retitle 402454 aptitude: Definition of ~O should mention virtual and configured but removed packages
severity 402454 minor
retitle -1 aptitude: ~O should not match any virtual package at least
severity -1 wishlist
kthxbye

Hi,

Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Package: aptitude
> Version: 0.4.4-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Although documentation say:
> |~Oorigin
> |
> |    Matches package versions whose origin matches the regular expression
> |    origin. For instance, “!~Odebian” will find any unofficial packages
> |    on your system (packages not from the Debian archive). 
> 
> it seems it matches all packages which can be found in the active
> downloadeded package list.

Not sure what you mean with "in the active downloadeded package list".

At least I can reproduce that it lists all virtual packages as well as
all configured, but not removed packages which are no more in the
archive.

So "aptitude search '!~Odebian !~v !~c'" does what I'd have expected
without thinking much about how patterns work in detail.

> Thus “!~Odebian” will also find virtual packages and obsolete packages which
> is no longer found in the origins when used along aptitude search.

Exactly.

> I would suggest following instead:
> |~Oorigin
> |
> |    Matches non-virtual package versions whose origin can be traced to
> |    the regular expression origin using active /etc/apt/sources.list.

I'll take that as suggestions for a behaviour change. I clone the bug
accordingly, because the "non-virtual" would be wrong if it should
document the current state.

> |    “!~v!~Odebian” will find non-virtual package versions which can not
> |    trace their origin to debian using active /etc/apt/sources.list on
> |    your system (packages not from the active Debian archive).

That part seems to be rather documenting the current state. I though
miss that ~c (remove but configured packages) are not mentioned,
because they're matched, too, in case they're no more in the archive.

		Regards, Axel
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