Bug#125872: apt-get update-binaries-but-not-sources

[Barak Pearlmutter <bap@cs.unm.edu>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist

I wish there were a way to go "apt-get update-debs" to update just the
stuff described in the "deb" lines in /etc/apt/sources.list but not
the "deb-src" lines.

This is because I update binaries much more frequently than I do an
"apt-get source", so it would be much more efficient to update the
list of available sources only before fetching sources, rather than
each time I update the list of available binaries.

This need is particularly acute on machines that run "testing"
or "stable" binaries, but fetch "unstable" sources.  Which is pretty
common I'll bet.