[Aptitude-devel] Bug#933501: aptitude cannot search for packages newer than in the archive

[Sven Joachim]

Control: merge 902536 -1

On 2019-07-31 04:24 +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:

> Package: aptitude
> Version: 0.8.11-7
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Consider the case
> # set libffi6
> # apt-cache policy $@
> libffi6:
>   Installed: 3.3~20160224-1
>   Candidate: 3.3~20160224-1
>   Version table:
>  *** 3.3~20160224-1 100
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      3.2.1-9 500
>         500 http://opensource.nchc.org.tw/debian unstable/main i386 Packages
> # apt-show-versions|grep newer
> libffi6:i386 3.3~20160224-1 newer than version in archive
> # aptitude --verbose show $@|egrep Version\|State
> Version: 3.3~20160224-1
> State: installed
> Version: 3.2.1-9
> State: installed (3.3~20160224-1), upgrade available (3.2.1-9)
>
> Actually technically that should be downgrade, not upgrade.*
>
> But my main point is there is no search pattern to detect it.
> not ~U, not ~o, etc. Probably no combination either.

This has been noticed before in #902536, by you.  Sorry, I don't have a
good suggestion, but would like to learn if there is any.

Cheers,
       Sven