Dear People, I just installed apt 0.5.3 (compiled on potato). I was hoping it would help me in fetching sources. My current sources.list points
for binaries (deb) to stable for sources (deb-src) to stable and testing I see that there exists the new option apt-get source slrn=0.9.6.2-9potato1 (version in stable) or apt-get source slrn=0.9.7.1-5 (version in testing) and it will fetch them correctly, provided the appropriate lines exist in sources.list, as they do in mine. Howver, I would much rather do apt-get source slrn/stable and apt-get source slrn/testing as is apparently possible for binaries (but seemingly not for sources) as I don't in general know the version numbers, unless I go on the web and look them up. This is not so much an issue at the moment, since I can do dpkg -l slrn and find the stable version that way, and the default version is testing, so just apt-get source slrn works for the testing version. But this is clumsy. Also, I was thinking of adding a deb-src line for unstable, and then how would I get the version for testing short of looking on the web? I have read the available documentation forward and sideways, and don't see anything obvious I am missing. I'd be grateful for any suggestions. Incidentally, the -t option doesn't seem to work with apt-get source either. Sincerely, Faheem Mitha.