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

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2016-03-01 15:37 To 743769 at bugs.debian.org:
>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.

For the record: both Axel and I think that, even if not extremely
important, short term for "source" could be added and it's better that
the letter of the scape should be exchanged for a small gain in
consistency.

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