Re: updateinfo and -S option

Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:

>The right way to do this is to include a new API to transit
>meta-information from the backend. And at that point you're
>right, I never got to it. My fault.
>  
>
Another reason to give up my attempt to bring back the code from the 0.3 
level (also found it is too hard for me to do).

I can hardly claim I used it a lot, not having noticed that the option 
was gone. Initially I played with it to put the top of the --changelog 
into the file, but that made little sense (because that is compared to 
the previous level, not the installed level...)   My renewed interest 
was for security fixes to stuff an 'install before' date into the 
repository, and maybe the CVE reference.

There's also 3 fields empty in the output of 'apt-get -s upgrade'  as 
shown here:
Inst net-tools [1.60-163] (1.60-230 Unknown:Unknown/Unknown)
Inst reiserfs [3.6.2-25] (3.6.9-31 Unknown:Unknown/Unknown)
Inst textutils [2.1-24] (2.1-65 Unknown:Unknown/Unknown)
Conf attr (2.4.2-49 Unknown:Unknown/Unknown)
Conf acl (2.0.19-42 Unknown:Unknown/Unknown)
Conf pam (104:0.76-32.itcs Unknown:Unknown/Unknown)
Would it be easier to put the data from the updateinfo file into these 
fields, or can I fill them in some way?

Rob