Bug#147817: apt-get install <src package> installs binary packages produced without a message
Package: apt
Version: apt 0.5.4 for linux i386 compiled on Aug 19 2001 01:02:26
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gradall:/usr/share/doc/libxerces2-java-doc# grep '^deb' /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
gradall:/usr/share/doc/libxerces2-java-doc# apt-get install db4.0
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
db4.0-doc libdb4.0 libdb4.0++ libdb4.0++-dev libdb4.0-dev libdb4.0-tcl
libdb4.0-util
The following packages will be REMOVED:
apache-dev libdb2-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
db4.0-doc libdb4.0 libdb4.0++ libdb4.0++-dev libdb4.0-dev libdb4.0-tcl
libdb4.0-util
0 packages upgraded, 7 newly installed, 2 to remove and 458 not upgraded.
gradall:/usr/share/doc/libxerces2-java-doc# apt-get install xfree86
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package xfree86
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As far as I can see here, installation of db4.0(which is not a binary package)
makes apt install all the packages that have db4.0 as their source(I have no
src lines in sources.list).
So, one would assume that doing the same for xfree86, would have the same
results. It doesn't.
I see 2 bugs.
First, why doesn't installing xfree86(a source package) install all binaries
packages it produces.
Secondly, when apt does do this source->binary conversion, it should print a
message saying it is doing that. It's confusing otherwise.
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