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

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:41:06 +0000 (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message 
<[🔎] jpj7fi$kr$26@dough.gmane.org>:

> On Wed, 23 May 2012 19:33:16 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 23 May 2012 14:50:21 +0000 (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message
> > <[🔎] jpitfd$kr$12@dough.gmane.org>:
> > 
> >> But the question is valid, the message is present so then, can we
> >> consider the $subject a bug or a feature?
> > 
> > ..that probably depends on the usefulness of your definition of
> > "$subject". ;o)
> 
> There's no much room for guessing:

..no? ;o)

> $subject is the "subject" of this 
> thread which -regardless its usefulness- states:
> 
> ***
> Re: aptitude changelog gives "You must put some 'source' URIs
> in your sources.list"
> ***

..ok, _that's_ your definition. ;o)

> Bug or feature?
> 
> Does "aptitude changelog" need the corresponding "deb-src" entry in
> order to avoid the error message ("E: You must put some 'source' URIs
> in your sources.list")?

..IMO both, 1.) a feature, because it does this thing differently 
than apt-get, which offers a viable workaround when a bug hits it,
and 2.) a but, because aptitude's error message suggestion does
not work her, because of a "second bug".  We've covered this, no 
need to get too dizzy looping this bird over and over again.

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