On 20 December 2012 00:37, Julian Andres Klode <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 08:13:21AM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote: >> >> Package: apt >> Severity: wishlist >> >> Dear deity >> >> Some Debian tools (such as bugs.d.o) support explicitly named source >> packages using a “src:” prefix. apt-get currently has “--only-source”, >> documented to look for source package names. It may be useful to also >> support the de facto common prefix. > > Maybe those tools should be changed to use pkg:source instead. That's > the only sane option to support, given that we seem to use 'source' in > APT in someparts, and that the multi-arch syntax is pkg:arch.
An interesting alternative, and allowing for new directions with those tools if they supported :arch also. In APT, certainly this delimiter should not be overloaded and used for a prefix, as Guillem pointed out. Note that I don't find anything lacking with the current option (to use --only-source), only forwarding this request to separate it from another bug report. > And If I recall correctly, I wrote almost the same thing some time > ago in another bug report asking for the same thing. Merge candidate if it were ever dug up. Regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
