Say I am running Etch and my /etc/apt/sources.list contains only entries related to Stable. Using command line interface, What is the efficient way to obtain information about versions of a package currently available in testing, unstable, experimental?
Currently, I go to http://packages.debian.org/packagename to get the necessary information. But I am looking for a command line alternative. apt-show-versions -a does not seem to work in this case since all my entries in sources.list only point only to stable. I do not want to add testing/unstable entries in sources.list as I would like to track only Etch and nothing else on this machine. reportbug seem to be doing this some how. For example if I try to report a bug in stable's package, it tells me the version numbers available in testing/unstable. I am looking for something like this. Any ideas? thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]