Bug#747070: ITP: apt-venv -- apt virtual environment

[Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@ubuntu.com>]

On 5 May 2014 11:03, Leo Iannacone <l3on@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Leo Iannacone <l3on@ubuntu.com>
>
> * Package name    : apt-venv
>   Version         : 0.1.0
>   Upstream Author : Leo Iannacone <l3on@ubuntu.com>
> * URL             : https://github.com/LeoIannacone/apt-venv
> * License         : GPL-3
>   Programming Lang: Python
>   Description     : apt virtual environment
>
>  apt-venv creates a sort of virtual environment in the user
>  home directory and forces apt to run under some custom option.
>  .
>  A simple use case is collect information about packages
>  in different Debian and Ubuntu release without surfing the web,
>  just using calling apt-cache through the virtual environment.

How is it different from "chdist" utility from the devscripts package
that allows apt-cache lookups and more?

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/en/man1/chdist.1.html

-- 
Regards,

Dimitri.