Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.3-3.2
Severity: wishlist
Canonical places a "Supported" field in their Packages files,
indicating how long they (nominally) provide support for the package
in question. I can show this field in search results:
$ grep-aptavail -ns Package,Supported -F Provides x-display-manager | fmt |
tr -s '\n'
kdm 3y
lxdm
slim
wdm
xdm
gdm 3y
and I can search by it (doesn't actually work in grep-status):
$ grep-status -ns Package -F Supported 5y
I would like to do these things in aptitude instead of dctrl-tools.
For that to work, I think aptitude needs a search term[0]
(e.g. ?supported(5y)) and a format string[1] (e.g. %L) for the
Supported field.
[0] http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s03s05.html
[1] http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s04s01.html
-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.6.3 compiled at Oct 16 2010 18:18:04
Compiler: g++ 4.4.5
Compiled against:
apt version 4.10.1
NCurses version 5.7
libsigc++ version: 2.2.4.2
Ept support enabled.
Gtk+ support disabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20100313
cwidget version: 0.5.16
Apt version: 4.10.1
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff0bbff000)
libapt-pkg.so.4.10 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.10 (0x00007f9a9d9f4000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f9a9d7a1000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f9a9d59b000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f9a9d2cf000)
libept.so.1 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1 (0x00007f9a9d07b000)
libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f9a9cc9a000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f9a9ca83000)
libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f9a9c7ec000)
libboost_iostreams.so.1.42.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.42.0
(0x00007f9a9c5d0000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f9a9c3b4000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f9a9c0aa000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f9a9be27000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f9a9bc11000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f9a9b8b0000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f9a9b6ac000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f9a9b4a8000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f9a9b2a3000)
libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f9a9b093000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x00007f9a9ae8b000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f9a9dd06000)
Terminal: screen
$DISPLAY not set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude linkage:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg4.10] 0.8.9 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libboost-iostreams1.42. 1.42.0-4 Boost.Iostreams Library
ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcwidget3 0.5.16-3 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libept1 1.0.4 High-level library for managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.5.1-7 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20100313-4 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.4.2-1 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.3-1 SQLite 3 shared library
ii libstdc++6 4.5.1-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxapian22 1.2.3-2 Search engine library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii apt-xapian-index 0.41 maintenance and search tools for a
ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.6.3-3.2 English manual for aptitude, a ter
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2.1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii sensible-utils 0.0.5 Utilities for sensible alternative
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii debtags 1.7.11 Enables support for package tags
pn tasksel <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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