[Aptitude-devel] Bug#871948: aptitude search: please support build-depends et. al. as a depType for ~D, ~R, etc

[Ximin Luo]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.8-1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

It would be nice if I could do something like

  $ aptitude search '~Rbuild-depends:sagemath'

which could help with managing transitions and things like that.

X

-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm-256color
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.8.8
Compiler: g++ 6.3.0 20170516
Compiled against:
  apt version 5.0.1
  NCurses version 6.0
  libsigc++ version: 2.10.0
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20170715
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 5.0.2

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff5e5ba000)
	libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007ffbbe4dc000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007ffbbe2ac000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007ffbbe082000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007ffbbde7b000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007ffbbdb80000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007ffbbd873000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 (0x00007ffbbd65b000)
	libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 (0x00007ffbbd442000)
	libboost_system.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.62.0 (0x00007ffbbd23e000)
	libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007ffbbce2a000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007ffbbcc0d000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007ffbbc88c000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007ffbbc588000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007ffbbc371000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007ffbbbfd2000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007ffbbbdce000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007ffbbbbb7000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007ffbbb99b000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007ffbbb78b000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007ffbbb565000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007ffbbb353000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007ffbbb14b000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007ffbbaf44000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000055b57e1f5000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (300, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common            0.8.8-1
ii  libapt-pkg5.0              1.5~beta1
ii  libboost-filesystem1.62.0  1.62.0+dfsg-4+b1
ii  libboost-iostreams1.62.0   1.62.0+dfsg-4+b1
ii  libboost-system1.62.0      1.62.0+dfsg-4+b1
ii  libc6                      2.24-12
ii  libcwidget3v5              0.5.17-6
ii  libgcc1                    1:7.1.0-12
ii  libncursesw5               6.0+20170715-2
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5          2.10.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.19.3-3
ii  libstdc++6                 7.1.0-12
ii  libtinfo5                  6.0+20170715-2
ii  libxapian30                1.4.4-2

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-12
ii  sensible-utils                 0.0.9+nmu1

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  apt-xapian-index                <none>
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
pn  debtags                         <none>
ii  tasksel                         3.39

-- no debconf information