[Aptitude-devel] Bug#248561: aptitude: does not show repository used / display origin (%O) in format strings

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + pending


Hi all,

2004-05-12 02:14 hungerburg:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.2.14.1-2
>Severity: wishlist
>
>
>It was great, if the package detail view would display, where from a
>package will be downloaded - like the entry in apt-sources that got it
>on the list.


2004-08-12 10:59 Jörg Thönnes:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.2.15.2-1
>Followup-For: Bug #248561
>
>
>If I add %t I can see whether the package is coming from stable, testing
>or unstable.  But still I cannot see the website where the package is
>coming from.
>
>J?rg


2004-08-12 11:06 Jörg Thönnes:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.2.15.2-1
>Followup-For: Bug #248561
>
>
>Now I found the exact name what I wanted to be displayed: The Origin of
>the package.  I can search for it using ~O, but it cannot be displayed.
>I would suggest to use %O to display it.
>
>Thanks, J?rg


2014-04-11 16:25 Jan Blunck:
>[Please CC me on replies.]
>
>Hello Aptitude developers,
>
>I've come across the problem described in bug 248561 (
>https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=248561) and I would like
>to propose the attached changes which add the %O format field to display
>the Origin of a package.
>
>This functionality is specifically helpful when using multiple different
>3rd party repositories with packages for the same target suite/codename.
>For users of the Open Build Service this would dramatically improve the
>usability of the presented information.


I applied this change now.

Not Jan's patch though (but thank's for the that anyway!), because it
was suboptimal in a couple of places, in part due to other changes, had
no doc, didn't have into account setting up the initial widths, and
because I just implemented it as part of other changes.

Will be present in the next release, hopefully soon, so marking as
+pending.


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