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Bug#177257: apt-cache man page doesn't mention how to get source info too



Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man8/apt-cache.8.gz

the apt-cache manpage doesn't answer "what if the user wants to know
about source code", or what command to try.

e.g.  we see there word "source":
       gencaches
              gencaches performs the same opration as apt-get check. It builds
              the  source   and   package   caches   from   the   sources   in
                   ^^^^^^source .debs?                             ^^^^^^ftp/html
              sources.list(5) and from /var/lib/dpkg/status.


but nothing more is mentioned about src .debs if indeed that's what
they're talking about.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.19-k7 #1 Sun Oct 6 20:29:56 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.2.5-15    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2       1:2.95.4-12 The GNU stdc++ library

-- no debconf information




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