[Aptitude-devel] Bug#767393: aptitude: Does not show version for versioned Provides

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + pending


2015-10-09 19:59 To Guillem Jover:
>Control: reopen -1
>
>>>On the command-line:
>>>
>>>,---
>>># equivs-build virtual.control
>>># dpkg -i test-provider_10_all.deb
>>># aptitude show test-provider | grep Provides:
>>>Provides: coreutils, dpkg, test-nonexistent
>>>`---
>>
>>I implemented this, now it shows:
>>
>>Provides: coreutils (1000), dpkg (1:0), test-nonexistent (1.0)
>>
>>(will omit parentheses and version if version empty)
>
>From David, APT's developer:
>
> Please show "coreutils (= 1000)" like it is in the control file rather
> than "coreutils (1000)".  Its unlikely that something else than "="
> will ever be supported, but just in case and to not confuse people
> reading aptitude output and expecting it to be valid syntax.
>
>So reopening, to have this into account.

Implemented now.

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