Bug#1110913: apt: man pages should SEE ALSO apt-patterns(7)

Package: apt
Version: 2.6.1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: none, Dave Love <[email protected]>

Dear Maintainer,

Apt patterns are used in the update instructions, for instance, but I
had to do a web search for documentation on them; they're not referenced
from the apt/apt-get man pages.  I'm not sure which other man pages are
relevant, but at least apt(8) and apt-get(8) should have apt-patterns(7)
in the SEE ALSO section, and probably also mention patterns in the text.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.11
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'oldstable'), (100, 'bookworm-fasttrack'), (51, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-37-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.134
ii  debian-archive-keyring  2023.3+deb12u2
ii  gpgv                    2.2.40-1.1
ii  libapt-pkg6.0           2.6.1
ii  libc6                   2.36-9+deb12u10
ii  libgcc-s1               12.2.0-14+deb12u1
ii  libgnutls30             3.7.9-2+deb12u5
ii  libseccomp2             2.5.4-1+deb12u1
ii  libstdc++6              12.2.0-14+deb12u1
ii  libsystemd0             252.38-1~deb12u1

Versions of packages apt recommends:
ii  ca-certificates  20230311+deb12u1

Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn  apt-doc         <none>
ii  dpkg-dev        1.21.22
ii  gnupg           2.2.40-1.1
ii  powermgmt-base  1.37
ii  synaptic        0.91.3

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