On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 17:48:19 -0300, msl09<contams...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi, I wish to help a debian team with the triaging of the bugs of a >package and a few questions arose: > >How do I get a neat list of the installed dependencies of a package[1] >on my system. My wish is to compare the dependencies that a user had >installed on a bug report with the one on my debian. > >Is it useful to reply to a bug report saying that you can't reproduce >it when another user with the same specs(package and debian version) >already did that? > >Thats all for now. > >[1] - The neat list format I'm talking about is the one that appear on >bug reports like this: > >Versions of packages liferea depends on: >ii gconf-service 3.2.6-1 >ii gconf2 3.2.6-1 >ii libatk1.0-0 2.8.0-2 >ii libc6 2.17-3 > > You can get such a list using aptitude: aptitude search '?reverse-depends(liferea)?architecture(amd64)' -F"%p%V" This will show reverse-depends of liferea on amd64 (If I skip the architecture it will list both i386 and amd64, more or less just doubling the list). The options for the -F setting can be found at [1], and the options for the search (like reverse-depends and architecture) can be found at [2]. As you can see the amount of options and possibilities to customize such a search are simply _massive_. [1] http://www.algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s04s01.html [2] http://people.debian.org/~abe/aptitude/en/ch02s04s05.html -- Andreas Rönnquist mailingli...@gusnan.se gus...@gusnan.se -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130714020013.33d53...@debian.lan