apt info "please use the '-a' switch"

[Moses Moore]

When getting info about a package, I see a notice asking me to "Please use the '-a' switch", but the apt program does not accept an '-a' switch.

Steps to reproduce:
$ apt info docker.io
...
N: There is 1 additional record. Please use the '-a' switch to see it
$ apt -a info docker.io
$ apt info -a docker.io
$ apt info docker.io -a

Expected outcome:
same output as `apt info docker.io` but with the 1 additional record.

Seen outcome:
E: Command line option 'a' [from -a] is not understood in combination with the other options.

Also seen:
`apt info $pkg` gives the same output as `apt show $pkg` including the Notice message, but where `apt info -a $pkg` fails, `apt show -a $pkg` succeeds.

Workaround:
Use `apt show -a $pkg` instead.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: apt 1.8.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-23.24-generic 5.0.15
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Thu Sep 12 14:16:09 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-10-30 (316 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
SourcePackage: apt
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-04-18 (147 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.logrotate.d.apport: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.logrotate.d.apt: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.logrotate.d.apport: 2018-12-13T12:13:33.355709
mtime.conffile..etc.logrotate.d.apt: 2018-12-13T12:13:41.355709

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

Thanks for your bug report. It seems I did not add all switches from the show command to the info alias when adding it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apt - 1.9.5

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apt (1.9.5) experimental; urgency=medium

  [ Julian Andres Klode ]
  * Parse 'show' arguments for the 'info' alias as well (LP: #1843812)
  * patterns: Add base class for regular expression matching
  * patterns: Add ?version
  * patterns: Add ?source-name and ?source-version
  * patterns: Add ?archive
  * patterns: Add ?origin
  * patterns: Add ?any-version
  * patterns: Implement ?narrow(...), as ?any-version(?and(...))
  * patterns: Add ?all-versions
  * patterns: Add ?section
  * netrc: Restrict auth.conf entries to https by default (Closes: #945911)

  [ Anatoly Borodin ]
  * README.md: fix dead anonscm link

  [ Алексей Шилин ]
  * Search in all available description translations (Closes: #490000)
  * strutl: Add APT::String::DisplayLength() function
  * Fix progress bar width for multibyte charsets

  [ Chris Leick ]
  * German manpage translation update

  [ David Kalnischkies ]
  * Use correct filename on IMS-hit reverify for indices
  * Remove failed trusted signature instead of index on IMS hit

  [ Anthony Papillon ]
  * Fix a mistake in man french translation

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden> Mon, 02 Dec 2019 18:17:56 +0100