dpkg-query --print-avail: how to get long descriptions?

Dear DPKG developers, for all my packages installed (via aptitude), long descriptions are written (by? aptitude? dpkg?) to /var/lib/dpkg/{status,available} .. How to get them for uninstalled packages as well? The /var/lib/dpkg/available generated by dselect update does only contain the short descri

Re: dpkg-query --print-avail: how to get long descriptions?

On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 23:04:35 +0200 Marcel Partap wrote: > Dear DPKG developers, > for all my packages installed (via aptitude), long descriptions are > written (by? aptitude? dpkg?) to /var/lib/dpkg/{status,available} .. > How to get them for uninstalled packages as well? The > /var/lib/dpkg/avai

backport of dpkg (>= 1.17.2) and apt (>= 0.9.16.1) for build profiles

Hi backports team and dpkg and apt maintainers, I'm crossposting to these three lists because all parties have to agree on this for this to happen. We would like to add build profile support [1] to packages in the archive and because build profiles add a new syntax to Build-Depends, tools like dp