Bug#83528: I would like to know the source for a given package
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 08:59:47AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> reopen 83528
> quit
>
> On Thursday 25 January 2001, at 12 h 36, the keyboard of Jason Gunthorpe
> <jgg@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > wakko{jgg}~#apt-cache showsrc libc6
>
> The source (warning: I mean the source as in sources.list, not the source of
> the program) does not appear in the output of this (apparently undocumented)
> function.
>
> May be the confusion came from the name I suggested for the function. Since 'showsrc' is already used, let's use:
>
> % apt-cache showpkgsource libc6
> deb ftp://ftp.pasteur.fr/pub/computing/linux/debian potato main contrib non-free
>
> ^
> This is this source I would know!
Why is a separate command needed for this? Perhaps a field could be added to
the output of 'apt-cache show', to go along with the Filename field.
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- mdz
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