Nala now supports apt policy command

[devil]

In 2022 I opened a feature request with Nala to include the often-used command

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apt policy Finally today the command was implemented in Rust Nala as

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nala policyincluding per-package policy output. You can grab the latest version from GitLab and give it a spin.

Im Jahr 2022 habe ich bei Nala einen Feature-Wunsch eingereicht, um den häufig verwendeten Befehl

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apt policy zu integrieren. Heute wurde der Befehl endlich in Rust Nala als

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nala policy implementiert, einschließlich der Ausgabe der Paketinformationen. Ihr könnt euch die neueste Version von GitLab herunterladen und sie ausprobieren.

[DeepDayze]

Awesome new feature, thanks Devil!

[der_bud]

The "latest Version from Github" (= 0.18.2) is also in Sid since last week, so should have come with normal upgrade

[titan]

thought I would try Nala again but get error

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Error: Failed to parse ⁨/etc/nala/nala.conf⁩. Nala will not ignore an existing configuration file. If this followed a package upgrade, compare it with ⁨/etc/nala/nala.conf⁩.dpkg-dist

[i][/i]
[i]Caused by:[/i]
[i]    TOML parse error at line 27, column 1[/i]
[i]      |[/i]
[i]    27 | filesize_binary = false[/i]
[i]      | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^[/i]
    unknown field `filesize_binary`, expected one of `auto_remove`, `auto_update`, `update_show_packages`, `full_upgrade`, `simple`, `assume_yes`

Should I delete nala.conf and just use nala.conf.dpkg-dist

[edlin]

thought I would try Nala again but get error

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Error: Failed to parse ⁨/etc/nala/nala.conf⁩. Nala will not ignore an existing configuration file. If this followed a package upgrade, compare it with ⁨/etc/nala/nala.conf⁩.dpkg-dist

[i][/i]
[i]Caused by:[/i]
[i]    TOML parse error at line 27, column 1[/i]
[i]      |[/i]
[i]    27 | filesize_binary = false[/i]
[i]      | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^[/i]
    unknown field `filesize_binary`, expected one of `auto_remove`, `auto_update`, `update_show_packages`, `full_upgrade`, `simple`, `assume_yes`

Should I delete nala.conf and just use nala.conf.dpkg-dist

filesize_binary is depricated, i replaced the old config and it works fine.

edlin