Package: apt Version: 1.0.9.2 Severity: wishlist Following commit b463a73a03a50d886edef176fbdb5827e675d64b <http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/apt/apt.git/commit/debian/control?id=b463a73a03a50d886edef176fbdb5827e675d64b>, the apt binary package is described as a "commandline package manager":
This package provides commandline tools for searching and managing as well as querying information about packages as a low-level access to all features of the libapt-pkg library.
Of course, this is just one component of apt, which is a dependency of all APT-based package managers. I wanted to request a change to descriptions, but descriptions would be simplified and apt would be lighter by splitting the "commandline package manager" part into another package. This package could be named apt-cli. It would certainly contain /usr/bin/apt and apt-get. The apt binary package should keep library files, manual pages / configuration as well as anything needed by APT-based package managers. I recommend to have the apt binary package recommend "apt-cli", at least initially. For transitional reasons, this should probably even be an absolute dependency, unless the package containing the core APT is renamed, in which case apt could be a transitional package depending on apt-cli. -- Filipus Klutiero http://www.philippecloutier.com
