Re: Apt-get: how to check version number before installation?

From: Derek Broughton <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:57:52 -0400

Peter Garrett wrote:

There must be a story behind "madison" - it seems pretty obscure! ;-)

"apt-cache's madison command attempts to mimic the output format and a
subset of the functionality of the Debian archive management tool,
madison." (man!)

Of course, why Debian called their tool madison...
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