On 09/05/27 21:00 -0700, Daniel Burrows said ... > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 01:10:33PM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag > <app...@debian.org> was heard to say: > > $ apt-cache show elinks-data | grep Conflicts > > Conflicts: elinks (<< 0.11.3-1), elinks-lite > > ^^^ <- correct > > > > $ aptitude show elinks-data | grep Conflicts > > Conflicts: elinks (< 0.11.3-1), elinks-lite > > ^^^ <- incorrect > > I don't see this as a bug. aptitude is showing the user what the > dependency means. The fact that we use "<<" instead of "<" internally > due to historical bugs in dpkg is not relevant to the user. > > apt-cache is a query tool used to directly test and manipulate the > low-level apt database; its "show" routine just dumps a section of the > Packages file to screen. aptitude is showing you a processed and > formatted version of the data, and that includes converting non-standard > internal operators to standard mathematical operators.
I see what you are saying. I was expecting aptitude to show me what I wrote in the control file. Please feel free to mark this bug as wontfix. Thanks, Giridhar -- Y Giridhar Appaji Nag | http://appaji.net/
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