Package: apt
Version: 1.8.2.1
Severity: normal
The behavior of "apt build-dep --download FOO" confusingly proceeds to
install the build-deps of FOO. Seems like I wanted --download-only
instead.
The apt man page doesn't appear to even document the existence of "apt
build-dep", or the --download flag.
From a short dialog on IRC:
11:40 < vagrantc> TIL apt build-dep --download FOO ... installs the
packages rather than just downloading them
11:42 < tumbleweed> sounds like a bug?
11:44 < _jwilk> Weird. --download-only does the right thing.
11:46 < tumbleweed> and that is what's in the manpage
11:47 < tumbleweed> is --download the inverse of --no-download then?
11:48 < vagrantc> i think i got the same with -d
11:48 < tumbleweed> nope , -d seems to do the right thing
11:49 < vagrantc> yes, i suppose it sounds like a bug
11:49 < vagrantc> e.g. it shouldn't work with unsupported options ...
11:49 < tumbleweed> I could imagine that that option has an effect when
the config file sets the equivalent of --no-download
11:49 < tumbleweed> but I'm guessing
11:53 < vagrantc> right ...
11:54 < _jwilk> Not every --no-foo has a --foo counterpart. For example,
there's --no-act, but --act is not a thing. So at the minimum
the existence of --download should be documented, IMHO.
So I'm guessing the --download option needs to be documented, at
least...
Thanks for maintaining apt!
live well,
vagrant
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