Bug#821866: aptitude -t option does not work as documented; -t unstable download gets package from experimental
Control: tags -1 + pending Control: owner -1 ! Hi again, 2016-04-21 21:53 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo: Hi Josh, 2016-04-20 01:50 Josh Triplett: Package: aptitude Version: 0.7.8-1 Severity: normal "man aptitude" says: -t , --target-release Set the release from which packages should be installed. For instance, “aptitude -t experimental ...” will install packages from the experimental distribution unless you specify otherwise. For the command-line actions “changelog”, “download”, and “show”, this is equivalent to appending / to each package named on the command-line; However: /tmp$ aptitude -t unstable download apt-listchanges Get: 1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian experimental/main amd64 apt-listchanges all 3.1 [101 kB] Fetched 101 kB in 0s (301 kB/s) /tmp$ aptitude download apt-listchanges/unstable Get: 1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 apt-listchanges all 2.89 [95.7 kB] Fetched 95.7 kB in 0s (267 kB/s) The same goes for "show" and "changelog". The documentation was out of date since a change made a few years ago, to match the rest of the commands and the apt tools. The correct syntax is "apt-listchanges/unstable", and -t/--target-release affects APT::Default-Release. Documentation fixed now, marking as +pending. Note for future review: this is probably the same issue as #693684, or at least should be considered at the same time. Ditto. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Bug#821866: aptitude -t option does not work as documented; -t unstable download gets package from experimental
Package: aptitude Version: 0.7.8-1 Severity: normal "man aptitude" says: > -t , --target-release > Set the release from which packages should be installed. For > instance, “aptitude -t experimental ...” will install packages > from the experimental distribution unless you specify otherwise. > For the command-line actions “changelog”, “download”, and “show”, > this is equivalent to appending / to each package named on > the command-line; However: /tmp$ aptitude -t unstable download apt-listchanges Get: 1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian experimental/main amd64 apt-listchanges all 3.1 [101 kB] Fetched 101 kB in 0s (301 kB/s) /tmp$ aptitude download apt-listchanges/unstable Get: 1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 apt-listchanges all 2.89 [95.7 kB] Fetched 95.7 kB in 0s (267 kB/s) The same goes for "show" and "changelog". -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm-256color $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.7.8 Compiler: g++ 5.3.1 20160224 Compiled against: apt version 5.0.0 NCurses version 6.0 libsigc++ version: 2.6.2 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20160319 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 5.0.0 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x7ffd9d5a9000) libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x7f9406c8d000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x7f9406a5d000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x7f9406832000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x7f940662b000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x7f940632e000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x7f9406033000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 (0x7f9405e19000) libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 (0x7f9405c0) libboost_system.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.58.0 (0x7f94059fb000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.22 (0x7f94055f7000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f94053da000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x7f940505e000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x7f9404d6) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x7f9404b4a000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x7f94047a5000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x7f94045a2000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x7f940439e000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x7f9404186000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x7f9403f6b000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x7f9403d5b000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x7f9403b37000) liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x7f9403925000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x7f940371c000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x7f9403517000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x55f3986e4000) -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common0.7.8-1 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.2.10 ii libboost-filesystem1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1 ii libboost-iostreams1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1 ii libboost-system1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1 ii libc6 2.22-6 ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-4+b1 ii libgcc11:5.3.1-14 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20160319-1 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.8.0-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.12.1-1 ii libstdc++6 5.3.1-14 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20160319-1 ii libxapian22v5 1.2.23-1 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-8 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn apt-xapian-index pn debtags pn tasksel -- no debconf information