Bug#675748: dselect no longer shows package descriptions, /var/lib/dpkg/available no longer contains them
Control: retitle -1 675748 apt-cache dumpavail omits full description, unlike apt-cache show Control: tag -1 confirmed On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 05:47:05PM +, Adam M. Costello wrote: In two years this bug seems to have gotten no attention from the apt maintainer. Maybe it would help to change the bug description to apt-cache dumpavail omits full description, unlike apt-cache show. Thanks for the suggestion. It does not seem easy to fix, as show uses entirely different code. Sorry that it took two years for us to answer, but we do not always respond to bug reports -- the team is very small, and there are many bug reports that are like 10 years old. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. Be friendly, do not top-post, and follow RFC 1855 Netiquette. - If you don't I might ignore you.
Bug#675748: dselect no longer shows package descriptions, /var/lib/dpkg/available no longer contains them
In two years this bug seems to have gotten no attention from the apt maintainer. Maybe it would help to change the bug description to apt-cache dumpavail omits full description, unlike apt-cache show. Thanks, AMC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#675748: dselect no longer shows package descriptions, /var/lib/dpkg/available no longer contains them
[Sorry for the duplication, I forgot to reply-all.] Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org wrote: I'm guessing you are not using the apt method? Perhaps the ftp one? I am using the apt method. I don't remember ever configuring the access method in dselect, but I just now checked it, and it's apt. For now, one workaround that you could do, while not having to change your current dselect method could be to install apt, do an apt-update and use the program sync-available from dctrl-tools. This should give you back your Descriptions, but you'll need to rember to not update from dselect, only upgrade from it. apt was already installed, but I installed it again to get the latest version. I then ran: apt-get update apt-get install dctrl-tools sync-available But ~32k of the ~42k packages in /var/lib/dpkg/available still have Description-md5: instead of actual descriptions. Any other ideas? :) I'll look into fixing this for 1.16.4 or 1.16.5 for wheezy. Thanks! AMC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#675748: dselect no longer shows package descriptions, /var/lib/dpkg/available no longer contains them
reassign 675748 apt thanks On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 08:03:42 +, Adam M. Costello wrote: [Sorry for the duplication, I forgot to reply-all.] No problem. Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org wrote: I'm guessing you are not using the apt method? Perhaps the ftp one? I am using the apt method. I don't remember ever configuring the access method in dselect, but I just now checked it, and it's apt. For now, one workaround that you could do, while not having to change your current dselect method could be to install apt, do an apt-update and use the program sync-available from dctrl-tools. This should give you back your Descriptions, but you'll need to rember to not update from dselect, only upgrade from it. apt was already installed, but I installed it again to get the latest version. I then ran: apt-get update apt-get install dctrl-tools sync-available Because you are using apt as the dselect method this is not really required, and updating from inside dselect, or using «dselect update» should do the equivalent. But ~32k of the ~42k packages in /var/lib/dpkg/available still have Description-md5: instead of actual descriptions. Any other ideas? :) Ok it seems then, this is an apt issue, as «apt-cache dumpavail|less» shows the same problem for me. Thus reassigning. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#675748: dselect no longer shows package descriptions, /var/lib/dpkg/available no longer contains them
On Sun, 2012-06-03 at 05:45:23 +, Adam M. Costello wrote: Package: dselect Version: 1.16.3 Severity: normal dselect no longer shows package descriptions for the vast majority of packages, except for a one-line description. Presumably this is because the descriptions are absent from /var/lib/dpkg/available. A Description-md5 field has appeared in their place. Yes this has been changed recently in the archive to avoid duplicated contents from the server, more so now that we have multiarch duplicating tons of text if one enables several architectures. I had already in mind to add to my TODO list fixing this for the dselect methods. Being able to grep through /var/lib/dpkg/available was very convenient. That's what I've always done whenever I would wonder if there was a Debian package that would help me solve any given problem. Having the full descriptions show up in dselect was also very useful. I'm guessing you are not using the apt method? Perhaps the ftp one? Where have the descriptions gone? How can I get them back into dselect and back into a local text file I can search? They are in a separate file that needs to be downloaded. For now, one workaround that you could do, while not having to change your current dselect method could be to install apt, do an apt-update and use the program sync-available from dctrl-tools. This should give you back your Descriptions, but you'll need to rember to not update from dselect, only upgrade from it. I'll look into fixing this for 1.16.4 or 1.16.5 for wheezy. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#675748: dselect no longer shows package descriptions, /var/lib/dpkg/available no longer contains them
Package: dselect Version: 1.16.3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, dselect no longer shows package descriptions for the vast majority of packages, except for a one-line description. Presumably this is because the descriptions are absent from /var/lib/dpkg/available. A Description-md5 field has appeared in their place. Being able to grep through /var/lib/dpkg/available was very convenient. That's what I've always done whenever I would wonder if there was a Debian package that would help me solve any given problem. Having the full descriptions show up in dselect was also very useful. Where have the descriptions gone? How can I get them back into dselect and back into a local text file I can search? Thanks, AMC -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dselect depends on: ii dpkg 1.16.0.3 ii libc6 2.13-21 ii libgcc1 1:4.6.1-4 ii libncursesw5 5.9-1 ii libstdc++64.6.1-4 ii libtinfo5 5.9-7 dselect recommends no packages. Versions of packages dselect suggests: ii perl 5.14.2-11 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
