Re: aptitude changelog gives "You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list"
On Mon, 21 May 2012 15:00:40 +0000 (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message
<[🔎] jpdlao$leu$7@dough.gmane.org>:
> On Mon, 21 May 2012 00:34:18 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
>
> > 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)
>
> Would you mind to send the bug# for this "aptitude" issue? Thanks.
..one? ;o) Google found me these 3290 in a 1/3 of a second:
http://www.google.no/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Debian+bug+aptitude+%22apt-get+changelog%22+work
e.g. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptitude/+bug/824708
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