Bug#203816: /usr/bin/apt-get: maybe return warning if no sources for -t
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.8
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/apt-get
maybe at least warn if -t can't find any lists for the version the
user gave
!From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
!Subject: Re: packages removed by Release Manager just reveal older versions
!Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
!
!On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 01:34, Dan Jacobson wrote:
!> > Keeping the /etc/apt/sources.list in a reasonable state is something
!> > that Debian can't help the admin with.
!>
!> [Rural modem users have lots of CDs.]
!>
!> Ron> Why not use "-t"? I have a "mostly sarge" system with some sid.
!> Ron> The "-t" makes it very easy to do this:
!> Ron> # apt-get -t testing upgrade
!> Ron> # apt-get -t unstable install evolution mozilla-browser mozilla-psm
!>
!> when I do apt-get dist-upgrade or upgrade, I always see the same
!> results, "-t testing" or not. Perhaps because all I have is sid stuff
!> in /etc/apt/sources.list. Perhaps a bug.
!
!Hmmm, unless I'm reading you wrong:
!Since all you have in sources.list is sid, shouldn't you expect "-t
!testing" to have no effect?
!
!Of course, I did not know that you only have sid in your sources.list...
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