[Aptitude-devel] Bug#760608: aptitude: No format string for package architecture

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 - moreinfo + pending


2015-11-23 20:25 To Rogier:
>Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
>Control: retitle -1 aptitude: No format string (%-escape) for package architecture
>
>
>Hi Rogier,
>
>2014-09-06 00:07 Rogier:
>>Package: aptitude
>>Version: 0.6.11-1
>>Severity: wishlist
>>
>>Dear Maintainer,
>>
>>With the advent of multi-arch systems, the architecture of a
>>package shown by aptitude is no longer implicitly known. Please
>>add a format string for a package's architecture.
>
>The %p one ("package name") shows for quite a while now also the
>architecture for foreign packages, in the form of "libc6:sparc" vs
>"libc6" for the native architecture.
>
>It would be nice in a way to have a escape for architecture, but the
>number of one-letter escapes is almost exhausted [1], and in particular
>all of the "obvious" choices like %a %A %r %R are taken, and we have
>quite a few requests to add fields like this yet (and for things that
>don't have any alternative, like "source" or "origin").
>
>Unless we start to use unusual characters or multiple letters, I am not
>sure if this is possible to implement.
>
>It needs more consideration, thus the +moreinfo.
>
>
>[1] http://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s05s01.html

After consideration of other fields requested, added as '%e', so marking
as +pending.

This was also motivated because it was asked to me whether should field
was available for a use-case where they needed it, and '%p' does not
show the architecture for the "native"/primary one.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>