-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 09:05:08AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > 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.
[...] > 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). Not a real solution, but a trick would be to choose "source packages"; this cuts down a few of the hydra's heads, and rsyslog shows then up. Given that a source package gives birth to three binary packages (or sometimes many more), some amount of combinatorial explosion is not surprising. > 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." I do use that page as a second source, whenever I don't understand what apt/aptitude are trying to tell me -- or whenever I'm looking up something for a distribution I currently don't have access to. For that, the page is invaluable to me, despite its defficiencies. YMMV, and all that :-) Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlporvwACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbriACfbf/tGAZwzL+e0fVGUZVayrXD Q1YAn2zpxcaJ/nBIAVyb+c35AqdtFOkZ =HRsT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
