Bug#613664: should understand 'apt-cache showsrc <srcpkg>/<release>'
Package: apt
Version: 0.8.11.3
Severity: wishlist
It is possible to select a specific release of a binary package for
display with apt-cache, as in 'apt-cache show apt/unstable', but it is
not possible to do the same with source packages:
$ apt-cache showsrc apt/unstable
W: Unable to locate package apt/unstable
N: No packages found
$
Please support this functionality.
-- Package-specific info:
-- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-rc4-00205-g5b40ddf (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.6-20110125-1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.6-20110125-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
ii apt-doc 0.8.11.3 Documentation for APT
pn aptitude | synaptic | wajig <none> (no description available)
ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.3.1 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii python-apt 0.7.100.1 Python interface to libapt-pkg
-- no debconf information
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