Bug#695633: apt: support explicitly named source packages with "src:foo"

[Daniel Hartwig <mandyke@gmail.com>]

On 20 December 2012 00:37, Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 08:13:21AM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
>>
>> Package: apt
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> Dear deity
>>
>> Some Debian tools (such as bugs.d.o) support explicitly named source
>> packages using a “src:” prefix.  apt-get currently has “--only-source”,
>> documented to look for source package names.  It may be useful to also
>> support the de facto common prefix.
>
> Maybe those tools should be changed to use pkg:source instead. That's
> the only sane option to support, given that we seem to use 'source' in
> APT in someparts, and that the multi-arch syntax is pkg:arch.

An interesting alternative, and allowing for new directions with those
tools if they supported :arch also.  In APT, certainly this delimiter
should not be overloaded and used for a prefix, as Guillem pointed
out.

Note that I don't find anything lacking with the current option (to
use --only-source), only forwarding this request to separate it from
another bug report.

> And If I recall correctly, I wrote almost the same thing some time
> ago in another bug report asking for the same thing.

Merge candidate if it were ever dug up.

Regards