[Aptitude-devel] Bug#539978: marked as done ("show" says an installed package is not installed)

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + pending
Control: owner -1 !


2014-02-01 05:58 Daniel Hartwig:
>The package details shown above are for the installed version.  The
>manual states that "show" displays the candidate version, which is
>presently not the case due to open issues with version selection on the
>command line [1].
>
>Details for the candidate version still show "not installed":
>
> $ aptitude show acpi | grep '^\(Pac\|Ver\|Sta\)'
> Package: acpi
> State: installed
> Version: 1.6-1
> $ aptitude show acpi=CANDIDATE | grep '^\(Pac\|Ver\|Sta\)'
> Package: acpi
> State: not installed
> Version: 1.7-1
>
>The concern being that it is misleading to report "not installed" for
>upgrades, though it may be technically correct, in a sense.  It has been
>suggested to make things more clear by changing the state field to say
>"not installed, upgrade" or similar.

Fixed it in this way, so marking as +pending.

Also, moved Version to be the second field rather than be buried as #6th
or so, so maybe it's more noticeable that we're showing information
about that version (and because most of the other fields depend on the
version and not the package name).

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