Dear Colleagues, The output of `apt list` and some other utilities prints package names with modifiers after the "/" symbol, e.g.
# apt list --installed | grep udev libudev1/stable,now 241-7~deb10u7 amd64 [installed] udev/stable,now 241-7~deb10u7 amd64 [installed] I think that these modifiers can even change over time, at least after an `apt upgrade`. What is the meaning of the "stable,now" string? Sometimes there is the "unknown" string too. At first I thought it was a reference to the repo the package had been installed from, but no: I don't have anything like "stable" or "now" in /etc/apt/sources.list* This should be clearly documented somewhere but I cannot find it. Also, can these modifiers be used for anything useful? -- Victor Sudakov VAS4-RIPE http://vas.tomsk.ru/ 2:5005/49@fidonet
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