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Re: Upcoming version of apt-file - using apt-acquire and incompatibilities



Paul Wise:
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Niels Thykier wrote:
> 
>>  * The full list of known incompatibilities is in the changelog[1]
> 
>      - Special uses of "-a" to search in Source packages or
>        udebs have been replaced by "--index-names".
> 
> Would it be possible to get a `-a source` to map to `--index-names
> dsc` or to get a shorter option to search source packages (maybe
> `apt-file -s`)? I use this on the terminal a fair bit and typing the
> new option could get tedious.
> 

Certainly, I have reserved -I as a short hand of --index-names, so it
will be "apt-file -I dsc ...".

Thanks,
~Niels


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