apt-show-source - Lists source-packages.
This program parses the APT lists for source packages and the dpkg status file
and then lists every package with a higher version number than the one
installed.
It may prove very useful if the "deb" entries in your APT sources.list
point to stable and the "deb-src" entries point to unstable. With
this program you are easily able to find out if there is a newer version of
eg. Program XXXX in unstable.
Optional command line parameters are the DPKG Status file to use, the path to
APT's list files and a package name. There are also options to display: all
source-packages, verbose messages, version-only and command-line help.
Reads installed packages from
FILE instead of /var/lib/dpkg/status.
DIRECTORY specifies the path to APT's list files, defaults to
/var/lib/apt/lists/.
Prints out the installed-package/source-package version Information for
PACKAGE.
Prints version only if used together with
--package.
Prints out all available source-packages with version.
Prints out verbose messages.
Prints out command-line help.
Dennis Schoen,
[email protected]
apt(1),
dpkg(1)