Re: aptitude changelog gives "You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list"

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Sun, 20 May 2012 19:03:11 +0200, Tom wrote in message 
<[🔎] CAOdo=Sx_u1QqE5G=Kzv1Kz5cW0zxaRKWUadW6C6xsYpZkZzGfA@mail.gmail.com>:

> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, 19 May 2012 13:51:37 -0400, Tom wrote in message
> > <[🔎] CAOdo=Sy+8WL1a90H1rAqyhhBkmsG_3Pjw4t=E0icyEVzUCnOGQ@mail.gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> Thanks but I didn't say that it didn't work with apt-get only that
> >> aptitude seems to need "deb-src ..." entries.
> >
> > ..aye, it's because apt-get and aptitude does these things
> > _differently_, and that's handy when a bug in one program
> > makes you try a work-around using the other.
> 
> This thread is about aptitude and and two bugs that it seems to have
> when using "...changelog...", not about apt-get. Do you suggest that
> someone use vi when they have a problem with emacs? Or GNOME and KDE?
> Or ...? You could've also suggested reading changelogs on
> packages.debian.org as a workaround, it would nonetheless not have
> helped with aptitude. Or even, suggested that he switch to Fedora
> because "rpm -q --changelog ..." works.

..in principle, yes, until the bug is fixed, that un-dramatic
work-around is _precisely_ what's recommended by the aptitude 
bug fix team. ;o)

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