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Bug#911728: apt: man page discourages installing .deb files



Package: apt
Version: 1.4.8
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The wording on the apt-get(8) man page discourages installing of .deb
files by stating that a package can not be a filename and by providing
an example using a .deb file.

  install is followed by one or more packages desired for installation or
  upgrading. Each package is a package name, not a fully qualified
  filename (for instance, in a Debian system, apt-utils would be the
  argument provided, not apt-utils_1.4.8_amd64.deb).

Apt supports installing .deb files directly and it should be called out
on the man page.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.115
ii  debian-archive-keyring  2017.5
ii  gpgv                    2.1.18-8~deb9u2
ii  gpgv1                   1.4.21-4+deb9u1
ii  init-system-helpers     1.48
ii  libapt-pkg5.0           1.4.8
ii  libc6                   2.24-11+deb9u3
ii  libgcc1                 1:6.3.0-18+deb9u1
ii  libstdc++6              6.3.0-18+deb9u1

Versions of packages apt recommends:
ii  gnupg   2.1.18-8~deb9u2
ii  gnupg1  1.4.21-4+deb9u1

Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn  apt-doc                      <none>
pn  aptitude | synaptic | wajig  <none>
ii  dpkg-dev                     1.18.25
ii  powermgmt-base               1.31+nmu1
ii  python-apt                   1.4.0~beta3

-- no debconf information


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