[Aptitude-devel] Bug#593248: Bug#593248: aptitude should show the version being viewed

Axel Beckert abe at debian.org
Fri Sep 25 11:38:08 UTC 2015


Hi Ralf,

Ralf Jung wrote:
> attached you can find a screenshot of aptitude showing some version of
> some package. I wish you good luck trying to figure out which version it
> is actually showing. Hint: It's not "2.5.4", even saw it says so *twice*
> in the title...

The dependencies shown are clearly those of apt-file from experimental
as it depends on apt >= 1.1~.

But IIRC the two versions shown in the upper right corner are the
installed and the to-be-installed version. Which IMHO is correct, but
admittedly confusing.

Maybe those two versions in this view should be prefixed with
"Installed:" and "Available:" and maybe complemented with a third
version number prefixed with "Shown:".

		Regards, Axel
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