#871948 aptitude search: please support build-depends et. al. as a depType for ~D, ~R, etc

Package:
aptitude
Source:
aptitude
Description:
terminal-based package manager
Submitter:
Ximin Luo
Date:
2017-11-14 23:21:06 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#871948#5
Date:
2017-08-12 21:19:29 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

It would be nice if I could do something like

  $ aptitude search '~Rbuild-depends:sagemath'

which could help with managing transitions and things like that.

X
#871948#10
Date:
2017-11-14 23:19:12 UTC
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Hi,

2017-08-12 23:19 Ximin Luo:

It would certainly help these situations.

However, as a note for possible implementations or people looking into
this in the future, pkgCache::Dep::DepType from apt-pkg/pkgcache.h does
only have into account dependencies between binary packages, so it's not
very straightforward to achieve.


Cheers.