Bug#44384: suggestion to apt-get source

[Tuomas Jormola <tj@sgic.fi>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.12
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

Could it be possible to add option --diff-only to source command of apt-get?

This would only download the .diff.gz of a non-native package.
A person, like me, who likes to keep his system very bleeding-edge using
the debs often needs to download the diff.gz's of an existing debs to produce
a very latest deb for example using the CVS tree of some program. This
ftp process could be history if you could do it with apt-get. But currently
apt-get also downloads the .dsc and .orig.gz files also which in this
case are totally useless.

TIA,
Tuomas Jormola <tj@sgic.fi>

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux shakti.kos.su 2.2.12 #1 Sat Aug 28 03:43:38 EEST 1999 i686

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.1.2-0pre12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10               1:2.95.1-2   The GNU stdc++ library