retitle 299678 aptitude: support installing build-dependencies from
curses/gtk interface
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One very helpful improvement to aptitude would be if it would handle
browsing/installing source packages from deb-src sources.
When pointing at the regular debian repositories, this isn't always
necessary, since every source package should be already compiled
(although, this isn't necessarily the case--the amd64 port, for
instance, since it not all packages are currently build). However,
this is very useful for 3rd-party repositories, where being able to
browse/download/install source packages and their build-deps from
within aptitude's GUI would be a very useful feature.
Just tidying this up as it is (at least) 4 separate requests. Please
correct me if I have misinterpreted any of these.
1. Browse source packages
A new grouping policy [1] has been added in 0.6.4-1 which enables
browsing sources in the package view:
# with grouping policy `source,status'
...
--\ eggdrop (2)
--- Not Installed packages (2)
--\ eglibc (17)
--\ Upgradable Packages (6)
ilibc-bin
ilibc-dev-bin
ilibc6
ilibc6-dev
ilocales
imultiarch-support
--- Not Installed Packages (11)
...
2. Download source packages
Not implemented in aptitude but suggested elsewhere [2, 3].
3. Install build-dependencies of packages
- command-line action [4] was added in 0.4.11-1
- the curses interface does not support this yet
4. Build source packages
Not implemented _by aptitude_ but suggested elsewhere [5].
See also: apt-build - frontend to apt to build, optimize and install
packages.
* Summary
The only remaining feature suggested here which is not either already
implemented or covered elsewhere is installing build-dep from the
curses interface.
Retitled.
[1] Bug 497206 -- aptitude: Groups packages by Source package
[2] Bug 403372 -- To include option for download the source archives
[3] Bug 468897 -- aptitude: implement source action from apt
[4] Bug 243317 -- Implement aptitude build-dep source-pkg
[5] Bug 403289 -- add shortcut to compile a software
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