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Status: New => Confirmed
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Thanks for pointing this out and sorry for the misinterpretation.
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Indeed, this bug is already associated with a Debian bug, where the
upstream author has described a strategy for fixing the bug (in among
some essentially irrelevant dispute about the bug's severity). Therefore
it is completely wrong to close it in Ubuntu.
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This seems like a perfectly reasonable request and should be forwarded
to the Debian maintainer (i.e. the upstream author). I don't know why
everyone seems to be looking for reasons to close it.
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Not invalid. Please don't take that jobsworth attitude with me. There
is no good reason why the option should be restricted only to command-
line actions. That something stupid is documented doesn't make it any
less stupid.
** Changed in: aptitude (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => Confirmed
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Thanks for taking the time to report this. Though I can follow your
arguments (also on the Debian tracker) I think this is not a bug, as it
is clear by the aptitude man page, that "-d" is directly connected to a
command line option. The man pages describes "COMMAND-LINE ACTIONS"
first, directly fol
** Changed in: aptitude (Debian)
Status: Unknown => New
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** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #477665
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477665
** Also affects: aptitude (Debian) via
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477665
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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Nonsense - the same option should produce the same behaviour no matter
how the program is started.
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Nonsense - the same option should produce the same behaviour no matter
how the program is started.
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Hi, Chris!
>From the aptitude man-page:
-d, --download-only
Download packages to the package cache as necessary, but do not
install or remove anything. By default, the package cache is stored
in /var/cache/apt/archives.
This corresponds to the configur
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