On 30/06/2024 12:19, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 20:12:36 -0700, Will Mengarini wrote:
All we still need to know is whether the OP cares
about packages that aren't installed, or whether some
other aspect of Greg's solution isn't sufficient.
If there's interest in new versions of uninstalled packages, then we
have an additional bit of complexity -- how do you know whether the
candidate package is "new"? You would need an "old" version number
to compare against.
Possible answers include "the candidate version number that I got the
last time I ran the script" or "a version number that I'll provide as
a second argument to the script". We'd need to know what the OP has
in mind here.
rmadison will fetch data about package versions available in the Debian
repositories.
Its output might be usefully parsed by a script.
--
John
