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Package: devscripts
Version: 2.23.7
Currently devscripts contains package 'dget' [1] for downloading
Debian binary/source packages.
Everything it does can be done using apt-get. The man page itself
explicitly says 'dget package should be implemented in apt-get install
-d.', which it kind of today is as you can run 'apt-get download' to
download the binary packages of anything, and no root permissions are
required.
Thus the tools dget is obsolete, and should be removed, or replace
with a minimal bash script that simply states 'This tool is
deprecated. Please use "apt-get download" or "apt-get source".'
[1] https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/devscripts/dget.1.en.html
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Ummm, no. dget is a very useful tool with very different use cases
from apt-get - particularly when grabbing source packages.
Leave it alone.
On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 03:12:08PM +0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
>Package: devscripts
>Version: 2.23.7
>
>Currently devscripts contains package 'dget' [1] for downloading
>Debian binary/source packages.
>
>Everything it does can be done using apt-get. The man page itself
>explicitly says 'dget package should be implemented in apt-get install
>-d.', which it kind of today is as you can run 'apt-get download' to
>download the binary packages of anything, and no root permissions are
>required.
>
>Thus the tools dget is obsolete, and should be removed, or replace
>with a minimal bash script that simply states 'This tool is
>deprecated. Please use "apt-get download" or "apt-get source".'
>
>[1] https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/devscripts/dget.1.en.html
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