[Aptitude-devel] Bug#892983: Bug#892983 + Bug#892984: please allow filtering on/displaying the release 'label'/'suite'

[Axel Beckert]

Control: tag -1 + confirmed

Hi Tomas,

Tomas Pospisek wrote in #892983:
> The attached patch implement filtering for the 'Label' field in the
> "Release" file. I.e. it allows to filter packages according to the
> 'Label' of the release they belong to.
> 
> It adds a search expression/filter '?label()' to aptitude.

Yay!

Actually I could have needed that (and looked for it) yesterday on
Raspbian to figure our which packages come from Rasbian (i.e. are in
sync with Debian) and which come from the Raspberry Pi Foundation's
APT repo (which seems rather topsy-turvy).

In the end ?origin() worked for that case, too, but having ?label() …

Tomas Pospisek wrote in 892984:
> 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.

… and ?suite() would be indeed a very nice addition. So thanks for the
patch (and patch template)!

		Regards, Axel
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