[Aptitude-devel] Bug#892984: please allow filtering on/displaying the release 'Suite'

[Tomas Pospisek]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.7-1
Severity: wishlist

This wishlist complements bugreports #892983 and #484011.

Filtering for 'Suite's is required for being able to find out whether
there's Ubuntu security upgrades pending via the CLI interface of aptitude.
Please see #892983 for further details.

The only special field (apart from the repository FQDN), that
distinguishes 'security upgrade' packages from 'non-security upgrades'
on Ubuntu (!) is the 'Suite' of the release - for Ubuntu Xenial the 'Suite'
would be 'xenial-security'.

The way to implement this feature should be analogous, or respectively
99% identical to adding 'Label' as a format option and as a filtering
option. So it should be more or less copy/paste and s/label/suite/.

Thanks,
*t

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

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.8.7
Compiler: g++ 6.3.0 20170406
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 6.0.20161126
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 5.0.1

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffcac951000)
	libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007fc3c9d41000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fc3c9b11000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fc3c98e7000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fc3c96e0000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fc3c93e3000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fc3c90db000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 (0x00007fc3c8ec3000)
	libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 (0x00007fc3c8caa000)
	libboost_system.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.62.0 (0x00007fc3c8aa6000)
	libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007fc3c8692000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fc3c8475000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fc3c80f3000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fc3c7def000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fc3c7bd8000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fc3c7839000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fc3c7635000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007fc3c741e000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fc3c7204000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fc3c6ff4000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fc3c6dce000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007fc3c6bbc000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fc3c69b4000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fc3c67af000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fc3ca70a000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.4
  APT prefers stable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_CH.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_CH:de (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            0.8.7-1
ii  libapt-pkg5.0              1.4.8
ii  libboost-filesystem1.62.0  1.62.0+dfsg-4
ii  libboost-iostreams1.62.0   1.62.0+dfsg-4
ii  libboost-system1.62.0      1.62.0+dfsg-4
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ii  libgcc1                    1:6.3.0-18+deb9u1
ii  libncursesw5               6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2
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ii  libstdc++6                 6.3.0-18+deb9u1
ii  libtinfo5                  6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2
ii  libxapian30                1.4.3-2

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-12
ii  sensible-utils                 0.0.9+deb9u1

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  apt-xapian-index                <none>
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.8.7-1
pn  debtags                         <none>
ii  tasksel                         3.39

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