Re: aptitude and source packages
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 01:37:15PM -0600, Mr Mike wrote:
> On Saturday 19 March 2005 09:35 pm, you wrote:
> > This one probably has an easy answer, but I can't find it.
> >
> > What do I have to do to get aptitude to install a source package for me?
> > I spent half the morning trying things and searching documentation with
> > no luck. I do have a deb-src line in my sources.list file -- the very
> > one that sarge installed when I installed it.
> >
> > I'm trying to install the source package for gnucash, in sarge, to be
> > specific.
> >
> > -- hendrik
>
> I'm not positive but I think all src code is unavailable in unstable version
> of debian till it becomes 'stable'.. Seems like they could do that because
> it is changing so often during the testing phase..
>
I'm using testing. And wouldn't the binaries change at least as often as the
source? They might have to change when their own source changes, and might
they also be affected when other software they depend on changes?
-- hendrik
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