Bug#674812: [dget] doesn't support sources.list lines with options

[James McCoy]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 12:27:33PM +0200, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> Attached patch makes dget use apt-get download directly for binary packages.

The downside being that short circuits get_file which is where a lot of
dget's functionality resides (copying/hard linking files from local
caches, etc.).

One could argue that “apt-get download” could be enhanced to provide
some of this functionality, but in the mean time that'd be a regression
in functionality.

I haven't looked into any of the Perl wrappers around apt to see if they
can replace some of the manual parsing we're doing in dget, but that
would be a good middle ground.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>
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