Bug#177257: marked as done (apt-cache man page doesn't mention how to get source info too)
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Subject: apt-cache man page doesn't mention how to get source info too
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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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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 11:00:42 -0400
From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: apt-cache man page doesn't mention how to get source info too
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showsrc pkg(s)
showsrc displays all the source package records that match
the given package names. All versions are shown, as well
as all records that declare the name to be a Binary.
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