apt-show-versions now knows absolutely nothing about any package that
isn't already installed:
# apt-show-versions -a mplayer
mplayer not installed (available for: amd64)
It doesn't even know its own version, which is not very encouraging:
# apt-show-versions -h
Apt-Show-Versions v.0.16 (c) Christoph Martin
Usage:
apt-show-versions shows available versions of installed packages.
...
(The actual package version is 0.22.2 .)
I don't see how this qualifies as a "bug fix". It used to work
regardless of whether or not the package was installed, because it's
supposed to get its information from the package lists, not dpkg.
version 0.20 :
# apt-show-versions -a mplayer
Not installed
mplayer 2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1+svn34540-1+b2 stable ftp.us.debian.org
No stable-updates version
No testing version
mplayer 2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1+svn34540-1+b2 unstable ftp.us.debian.org
mplayer not installed
So this is actually a regression; the previous bug, whatever it was,
did not render the program totally useless, as it now is.
-- Ian Bruce
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