#564317 Apt-cache showpkg shows repeated lines

Package:
apt
Source:
apt
Description:
commandline package manager
Submitter:
Date:
2010-01-10 19:39:03 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#564317#5
Date:
2010-01-09 04:35:24 UTC
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To:
Apt-cache showpkg shows repeated lines
$ apt-cache showpkg iceweasel|sort|uniq -c|sort -n|tail -n 4
      2   xul-ext-notify,iceweasel
      2   xul-ext-pwdhash,iceweasel
      2   xul-ext-webdeveloper,iceweasel
      4   mozilla-openoffice.org,iceweasel

They are even adjacent too,
$ apt-cache showpkg iceweasel|uniq -c|sort -n|tail -n 4
      2   xul-ext-firecookie,iceweasel
      2   xul-ext-firegpg,iceweasel
      2   xul-ext-flashblock,iceweasel
      2   xul-ext-flashgot,iceweasel...

$ apt-config dump|grep Cache
APT::Cache "";
APT::Cache::AllVersions "false";

sources.list has
deb http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian-multimedia unstable main
#564317#10
Date:
2010-01-10 14:03:36 UTC
From:
To:
Hello Jidanni,

First of all: Thanks for your report:

2010/1/9  <jidanni@jidanni.org>:
These are the reverse dependencies. In the mozilla-openoffice.org package
case iceweasel is Recommend and Enhanced - for all available versions.
It is really this specific version of the package which is a rdepends of
another package (or multiply versions of the other package) so the information
isn't wrong. And as you see in the Recommend and Enhances combi you can
never eliminate repetitions - even if only one version of the reverse
dependencies would be considered, but and this is the second point...
... as noted in the description for this option in the manpage for apt-cache:
man> This option is only applicable to the show command.

And as a third argument, even the showpkg description says:
man> The [...] reverse dependencies [...] are listed [...] for each version.

In Conclusion:
I am failing to see what you actually request here or what do you expect
to be different in the output of apt-cache showpkg, so could you be a bit
more specific/verbose ?


Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

David "DonKult" Kalnischkies
#564317#15
Date:
2010-01-10 19:35:55 UTC
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To:
DK> I am failing to see what you actually request here
I'm just saying it would look more concise if instead of saying
  all-in-one-sidebar,iceweasel
  all-in-one-sidebar,iceweasel
it said
  all-in-one-sidebar,iceweasel

Or suffix them to say how they are different.