aptitude: display, search by “Supported:” field
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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aptitude (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Forwarded request from [1] as it is specifically of interest to Ubuntu users. I presume that support has been implemented in USC or whatever is package-
[1] http://
[Original Description]
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 (e.g. ?supported(5y)) and a format string (e.g. %L) for the Supported field.