On Wed 24 Jan 2018 at 10:53:17 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:21:45AM +0100, Floris wrote: > > Op Tue, 23 Jan 2018 20:44:19 +0100 schreef OECT T <oect_1...@hotmail.com>: > > [...] > > > >I searched into Synaptics package manager and noticed that the > > >package is not marked with the Debian icon >indicating that the > > >package is not supported. > > > > > On my system (Debian sid) aptitude has the Debian logo in synaptics. > > Folks, learn to use the web site. Just surf over to [1] and you can > query the current package database. For example, entering "aptitude" > into the form and choosing "any" as Distribution shows you what > distributions carry aptitude as a package [2] (and which versions > of said package are in each distrib). > [1] https://packages.debian.org/ > [2] > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=aptitude&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all
Hm. I had occasion to go to ¹ yesterday. (In passing, if I remove the word "index", I end up at a different page ² but the results are the same.) With the defaults (package names/stetch/any) I typed syslog. With only 29 matches returned, I was surprised to also get the message "Your keyword was too generic, for optimizing reasons some results might have been suppressed. Please consider using a longer keyword or more keywords." ³ OK, so syslog-ng seems to have more heads than a hydra, but what was more concerning was that there was no mention of rsyslog (which was what I was really interested in). So forget using this page for anything really vague like kernel-image, even if you set suite, section and then architecture; it can't even show you the most basic generic versions like linux-image-686-pae, but only "You have searched for packages that [sic] names contain kernel-image in suite(s) stretch, all★ sections, and architecture(s) amd64." and "Your keyword was too generic. Please consider using a longer keyword or more keywords." ★ yes, selecting the architecture widens the sections back to all. ¹ https://packages.debian.org/index ² https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages ³ https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=syslog&searchon=names&suite=stretch§ion=all Cheers, David.