Bug#319964: No way to find the archive of a source package

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

Package: libapt-pkg-dev
Version: 0.6.38
Severity: wishlist

  I'd like to allow archive specifiers to be attached to commands that take a 
source package name (like "aptitude changelog").  However, the information 
that I can get through the public interface of apt-pkg doesn't seem to be 
sufficient to find out which archive a particular source package belongs to.  
As far as I can tell, the archive information is stored in the Dist field of 
metaIndex; while you can reach an IndexFile from a pkgSrcRecords::Parser 
object, there's no route that I can find to get your hands on either the Dist 
or the corresponding metaIndex.

  The most obvious way of addressing this that I can see is to add a link from 
the IndexFile objects to their corresponding metaIndex, and perhaps to add an 
Archive() convenience routine to look up the archive of a Parser.

  Daniel

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