On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 08:27:11PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Yes, aptitude can do that. Quoting the manual[1]: > > ,---- > | ?provides(pattern), ~Ppattern > | > | Matches package versions which provide a package that matches the > | pattern. For instance, “?provides(mail-transport-agent)” will match > | all the packages that provide “mail-transport-agent”. > `---- > > In the current case, "aptitude search '~Plsb-base'" does the trick.
Why on EARTH was this not ported to apt-patterns(7)? unicorn:~$ apt list '?conflicts(~nlsb-base)' Listing... Done sysvinit-utils/stable,now 3.06-4 amd64 [installed] sysvinit-utils/stable 3.06-4 i386 unicorn:~$ apt list '?provides(~nlsb-base)' Listing... Error! E: input:0-21: error: Unrecognized pattern '?provides' ?provides(~nlsb-base) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^