Thanks for the clarifications!
I updated the man page in
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/devscripts/-/merge_requests/378 so
that the next DD trying to figure out what dget is for will have an
easier time.
Thanks for the example.
Apt can be used to download a specific source version of something
with the = parameter, which you probably know. In this case your
example showed that one can't use apt to download versions from
another (historic) Debian release.
apt-get source glibc=2.19-13
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On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 03:05:32PM +, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
>Hi!
>
>> Subject: Re: Bug#1059551: Remove obsolete command 'dget'
>> Ummm, no. dget is a very useful tool with very different use cases
>> from apt-get - particularly when grabbing source packages.
>
>W
On Thu, 28 Dec 2023 14:26:56 + Steve McIntyre wrote:
Ummm, no. dget is a very useful tool with very different use cases
from apt-get - particularly when grabbing source packages.
Leave it alone.
[...]
Hi
Adding some context to Steve's mail.
One use-case that `dget` offers that
Hi!
> Subject: Re: Bug#1059551: Remove obsolete command 'dget'
> Ummm, no. dget is a very useful tool with very different use cases
> from apt-get - particularly when grabbing source packages.
What if we then at least update the man page to mention `apt-get
download` and `apt-g
Package: devscripts
Version: 2.23.7
Currently devscripts contains package 'dget' [1] for downloading
Debian binary/source packages.
Everything it does can be done using apt-get. The man page itself
explicitly says 'dget package should be implemented in apt-get install
-d.', which it kind of
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