NAME

       apt-show-source - Lists source-packages.

DESCRIPTION

       This program parses the APT lists for source packages and the dpkg status file and then
       lists every package with a higher version number than the one installed.

       It may prove very useful if the "deb" entries in your APT sources.list point to stable and
       the "deb-src" entries point to unstable. With this program you are easily able to find out
       if there is a newer version of eg. Program XXXX in unstable.

COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS

       Optional command line parameters are the DPKG Status file to use, the path to APT's list
       files and a package name.  There are also options to display: all source-packages, verbose
       messages, version-only and command-line help.

OPTIONS

   -stf FILE, --status-file=FILE
       Reads installed packages from FILE instead of /var/lib/dpkg/status.

   -ld DIRECTORY, --list-dir=DIRECTORY
       DIRECTORY specifies the path to APT's list files, defaults to /var/lib/apt/lists/.

   -p PACKAGE, --package=PACKAGE
       Prints out the installed-package/source-package version Information for PACKAGE.

   --version-only
       Prints version only if used together with --package.

   -a, --all
       Prints out all available source-packages with version.

   -v, --verbose
       Prints out verbose messages.

   -h, --help
       Prints out command-line help.

AUTHOR

       Dennis Schoen, dennis@debian.org

SEE ALSO

       apt(1), dpkg(1)