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Bug#810294: debi: use apt to install packages if it is new enough



Package: devscripts
Version: 2.15.9
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/debi
User: devscripts@packages.debian.org
Usertags: debi
X-Debbugs-CC: apt@packages.debian.org

Please make debi use apt to install packages if apt is new enough
(apt 1.1~exp2 or later) to support directly installing .deb files.

This will reduce confusion from people who don't know they have to
run apt-get -f install after running dpkg -i foo.deb

I would only do it with new enough versions of apt to ease backports.

There probably needs to be an option to switch back to dpkg -i too.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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