On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:54:02PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: > OK, but if it is only to get the name of the upstream tarball then > you can take any available .dsc of the requested upstream version. > > Maybe I should explain why I want this feature: We are having an > alioth projetc for collaborative maintainership of the packages > related to ocaml. Currently we store for every package the > debian directory and the orig.tar.gz. We would like to stop > uploading orig tar balls to alioth, which is a waste of resources, > and rather have our internal build script retrieve upstream > tarballs, either by using apt-get source (hence my wishlist > request), or if this fails use the information in the debian/watch > file to retrieve it directly from upstream.
It seems much simpler for you to get what you want by wrapping a trivial script around "apt-cache show" and "apt-get source", rather than adding this to apt. -- - mdz
