Re: aptitude changelog gives "You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list"

On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:41:06 +0000 (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message
<jpj7fi$kr$26@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

On Wed, 23 May 2012 19:33:16 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:

On Wed, 23 May 2012 14:50:21 +0000 (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message
<jpitfd$kr$12@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

But the question is valid, the message is present so then, can we
consider the $subject a bug or a feature?

..that probably depends on the usefulness of your definition of
"$subject". ;o)

There's no much room for guessing:

..no? ;o)

$subject is the "subject" of this
thread which -regardless its usefulness- states:

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Re: aptitude changelog gives "You must put some 'source' URIs
in your sources.list"
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..ok, _that's_ your definition. ;o)

Bug or feature?

Does "aptitude changelog" need the corresponding "deb-src" entry in
order to avoid the error message ("E: You must put some 'source' URIs
in your sources.list")?

..IMO both, 1.) a feature, because it does this thing differently
than apt-get, which offers a viable workaround when a bug hits it,
and 2.) a but, because aptitude's error message suggestion does
not work her, because of a "second bug". We've covered this, no
need to get too dizzy looping this bird over and over again.

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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.


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