[Reportbug-commits] [reportbug] 02/27: Use apt instead of dpkg for availability information

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commit a2f99560f6cadecf9a4f62a259661aecf19b7e10
Author: Nis Martensen <nis.martensen at web.de>
Date:   Fri May 26 19:21:30 2017 +0200

    Use apt instead of dpkg for availability information
    
    "dpkg --print-avail pkg-name" no longer shows the long package
    description. Since we want it, so we must get it from somewhere else.
    "apt-cache show pkg-name" provides it.
    
    Also, man dpkg-query(1) says:
    
      Users of APT-based frontends should use "apt-cache show package-name"
      instead [of dpkg --print-avail package-name] as the available file is
      only kept up-to-date when using dselect.
    
    Nowadays APT has many more users than dselect, according to
    popcon.debian.org.
---
 reportbug/utils.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/reportbug/utils.py b/reportbug/utils.py
index 5ff3dbe..51c9d23 100644
--- a/reportbug/utils.py
+++ b/reportbug/utils.py
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ def get_package_status(package, avail=False):
     packarg = pipes.quote(package)
     if avail:
         output = get_command_output(
-            "COLUMNS=79 dpkg --print-avail %s 2>/dev/null" % packarg)
+            "apt-cache show %s 2>/dev/null" % packarg)
     else:
         output = get_command_output(
             "COLUMNS=79 dpkg --status %s 2>/dev/null" % packarg)

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