On 03/01/16 23:06, KatolaZ wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I have noticed that since I moved to Devuan several months ago, I
> have "lost" the long descriptions provided by "apt-cache show". What
> I mean is that if I give (just to make an example):
>
> apt-cache show texlive-publishers
>
> the record "Description:" contains only:
>
> Description: TeX Live: Publisher styles, theses, etc
>
> which is just the "short" description typically shown by apt-cache
> search, while I remember very well that in that particular case the
> "long" description was quite verbose, and included a list of all the
> stylesheet made available by that package. I have also tried to
> force the dump of all the records, using:
>
> apt-cache -o APT::Cache::ShowFull=true show texlive-publishers
>
> without any luck. Is it just me, or a choice made in Debian, or
> something going wrong when packages are imported into Devuan?
>
I think you'll find it's probably a package update which included
reducing the description to something a bit more concise.

To be sure you'd have to look up the package tracking info...


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