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Package: wajig
Version: 2.0.38
Severity: wishlist
See bug #589108. It would be nice if wajig would do what it says on
the tin: wajig list-commands says:
search Search for packages containing listed words
which is not quite what apt-cache search does. If it also ran
apt-search depends and apt-search rdepends it would get a broader
answer.
As I commented in bug 589108, this seems to be wajig’s territory,
whereas the more precise nature of the various apt-cache sub-commands
is more suited to that tool.
In short, please implement
$ wajig search foo
as:
wajig search foo
wajig depends foo
wajig rdepends foo
It would be nice if you could print out the short package descriptions
for the latter two commands, essentially by piping their output through:
dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Package} - ${Description}\n' | head -1
as there appears to be no way just to get the short description:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=427945
but also the output of apt-cache {,r}depends would need to be filtered
slightly. (I’d be happy to work out the details if the general idea of
this bug is accepted, it’s just a bit more use of cut and tail!)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.5
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages wajig depends on:
ii apt 0.7.20.2+lenny2 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii dselect 1.14.29 Debian package management front-en
ii python 2.5.2-3 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-apt 0.7.7.1+nmu1 Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii python-central 0.6.8 register and build utility for Pyt
wajig recommends no packages.
Versions of packages wajig suggests:
pn alien <none> (no description available)
pn apt-listbugs <none> (no description available)
pn apt-move <none> (no description available)
ii apt-show-versions 0.15 lists available package versions w
ii debconf 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy
ii deborphan 1.7.27 program that can find unused packa
pn dpkg-repack <none> (no description available)
ii fakeroot 1.11 Gives a fake root environment
ii fping 2.4b2-to-ipv6-15 sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to
pn gkdebconf <none> (no description available)
pn gnome-tasksel <none> (no description available)
pn gnome-terminal <none> (no description available)
ii locales 2.7-18lenny4 GNU C Library: National Language (
pn lynx <none> (no description available)
pn python-glade2 <none> (no description available)
pn python-gnome2 <none> (no description available)
pn python-gtk2 <none> (no description available)
ii reportbug 3.48 reports bugs in the Debian distrib
ii sudo 1.6.9p17-3 Provide limited super user privile
ii vrms 1.14 virtual Richard M. Stallman
ii wget 1.11.4-2+lenny1 retrieves files from the web
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Cleaning up old reports!
Thanks for the suggestion.
This could be moved to https://github.com/gjwgit/wajig for support if
still required.
Closing here for now.
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