[Aptitude-devel] Bug#743769: aptitude: Please add a short-form to search by source package name

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2014-04-06 09:37 Ralf Jung:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.6.10-1
>Severity: wishlist
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>please add a short form to search by source package name.
>Searching by source package name is actually not that uncommon
>(at least for me), for example it's needed when updating a package
>to unstable/experimental while using testing for most of the system.
>Usually, one wants the packages from a single source package to all
>have the same version - mixing them is hardly ever tested by anyone,
>so I usually try to avoid it.

Comment in that case that this is looked at in the future:

~s, ~S, ~o, ~O, ~U, ~r, ~R, ~c, ~C and ~E are taken.  Only ~u and ~e are
available, of the own letters of "source".

Since recently (0.7.5, 3 months ago when writing this), column fields
for source (%E) and architecture (%e) were added (%r was not possible
for architecture because it was already taken for revdepcount).

Perhaps this still can be changed to be the other way around, source
(%e) and architecture (%E) and we can have ~e for source's search term,
and so be more consistent.


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