On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 17:20:51 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: [ snip: We are trying to figure out how to search for packages that depend on specific versions of other packages. ]
> The following seems to work: > > $ aptitude search '~i~D(libneon~V0\.25)' > i A librpm4 > $ aptitude search '~i~D(libneon~V0\.26)' > i A libsvn1 > > but > > $ aptitude search '~i~D(libc6~V2\.3)' > > finds nothing, although, e.g., package hddtemp does depend on > libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6) > Any idea? Strange, I get lots of hits with the last command: $ aptitude search '~i~D(libc6~V2\.3)' | wc -l 1153 I am on Sid which means libc6 version 2.6-1. I have the impression that I get a large number of matching packages because I have stable, testing, unstable and experimental in my sources.list. This command seems to match package "foo" as long as any known version of "foo" specifies a "2\.3" version dependency on libc6. This does not have to be the version that is actually installed. Therefore I think this command does not really help users who accidentally made a mixed system out of their Debian installation. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian |