On Sun, Mar 08, 2020 at 07:10:49PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Matthias Klose (2020-03-08 18:40:34) > > $ apt show <somepackage> >/dev/null | cat > > > > WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in > > scripts. > > > > Is there a roadmap when the CLI interface will become stable? > > I would not expect apt to ever get a stable interface for scripting.
> I.e. for scripting, use apt-get instead. Or in this case, apt-cache. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ in the beginning was the boot and root floppies and they were good. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ -- <willmore> on #linux-sunxi ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀