retitle 502860 use python-apt instead of dpkg for pkgs info thanks On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 16:52, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> Hello Ansgar, >> >> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 13:23, Ansgar Burchardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Reportbug sometimes looks up the wrong maintainer for packages that have >> > been removed from the system. >> > >> > The output from "dpkg --print-avail" can be wrong if the package is no >> > longer >> > installed. Reportbug should not use this information for these packages. >> > For >> > example on my system I get this: >> >> But isn't it a bug in dpkg then? I can feel like --print-avail should >> print only "available" package, and nntp was no longer available on >> your system. I can't think an easy way to fix this if not switching to >> apt-cache or some other tool. > > Don't use "dpkg --print-avail" it reports only outdated information in > most cases as the available file is only a left-over from dselect > and as such it's almost guaranteed to not be up-to-date. There's a warning > in the man page in the git repository documenting this limitation already. > > Use apt-cache is my suggestion.
Thanks Raphael for highlight this to me; maybe the best solution is to replace all the code that "exec dpkg + parse output" to python-apt (even if this interface really needs a better documentation than now) Cheers, Sandro -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
