dctrl-tools (2.7) experimental; urgency=low The grep-dctrl package has now been renamed to dctrl-tools. The reason is simple: there is now more than one tool in the package. The new tool is sort-dctrl, and it does what you might think. See the manual page for more information. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho Thu, 9 Jun 2005 00:40:09 +0300 grep-dctrl (2.6.6) unstable; urgency=low Version number comparisons are now supported. This subsumes the earlier support for numeric comparison, since the version comparison routine handles it as a special case. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho Wed, 8 Jun 2005 19:26:56 +0300 grep-dctrl (2.6.1) experimental; urgency=low This version introduces a new program, sync-available, whose function is to sync the dpkg's available database with apt's database (sort of dselect update without dselect). -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho Sun, 11 Jul 2004 20:11:08 +0300 grep-dctrl (2.3) experimental; urgency=low Numeric comparisons are now supported. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho Sun, 18 Jan 2004 00:46:59 +0200 grep-dctrl (2.2) experimental; urgency=low Grep-dctrl now supports using the output of a specified command as the default input. As a result, a grep-aptavail command has been introduced; it uses APT's available database like grep-available uses dselect's available database. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho Fri, 16 Jan 2004 03:08:58 +0200 grep-dctrl (2.0) unstable; urgency=low This entry describes changes since the last version in stable, 1.9, released in July 2001. Grep-dctrl has been completely rewritten. It is now faster than before, in some cases even an order of magnitude faster, and it is now much easier to add new features. Speaking of new features, the major addition since 1.9 is the ability to use the full descriptive power of propositional calculus to combining searches. Basically, putting --and between two old-style searches combines them with AND, and --or does the same with OR. There is also a --not. See the grep-dctrl(1) manual page for more information. The option -c now is synonymous with --count. There is a new -d switch that selects for display the _short description_ (the first line of the "Description" field). Grep-dctrl now adheres to the same exit value conventions as grep(1). It also supports GNU grep's -q and --silent options. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho Wed, 7 Jan 2004 02:08:30 +0200