Display version next to each package being updated

[biohazd]

It would be great to display the packages version change next to the package name. This is on the screen where is shows the packages that need to be updated. Normally it shows the package change at the bottom of the window when you mouse over each package.

The reason for this is I can quickly copy and paste all packages to be updated into a ticket to do the patching.

Before:
[-] Updates pending
[-] Debian-7.0
R v [-] nXX1-xx.com (Debian 7.5 wheezy; 3.2.0-4-amd64)
u: dpkg

After: (version change is listed after package name)
[-] Updates pending
[-] Debian-7.0
R v [-] nXX1-xx.com (Debian 7.5 wheezy; 3.2.0-4-amd64)
u: dpkg 1.16.13 -> 1.16.14

This is the format of the report I need to create.

• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

  • dpkg (1.16.1.2ubuntu7.3 -> 1.16.1.2ubuntu7.4)
  • openssl + libssl (1.0.1-4ubuntu5.12 -> 1.0.1-4ubuntu5.13)

  $ lsb_release -a; uname -a
  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID: Ubuntu
  Description: Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS
  Release: 12.04
  Codename: precise
  Linux xxxx-xxxxx 3.2.0-58-generic Merge several fixes and improvements including multiuser setups. #88-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 3 17:37:58 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[liske]

Hi,

this should be easy to implement. As an alternative you might try the XML report feature of apt-dater to generate your ticket content (scriptable using some XSLT magic).

Cheers,
Thomas

[biohazd]

nice one, I will take a look.