Re: Bug#50970: apt: wishlist: apt-get source should allow source filename to be specified too
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 cesarb@web4u.com.br wrote:
> 'apt-get source netfilter' doesn't work, and I have to type
> 'apt-get source netfilter-source' to get the netfilter source, which is named
> 'netfilter'. It would be less counter-intuitive to allow the package to be
> specified by the source name too.
It does work:
Wakko{root}~/work/dsync/buildlib#apt-get source netfilter
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Need to get 312kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://samosa.debian.org potato/main netfilter 0.1.12-1 (dsc) [693B]
I haven't the faintest why you had problems, maybe a misspelling or
something.
Jason
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