Ubuntu
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"apt-get changelog" doesn't take source package names

Bug #678440 reported by Loïc Minier
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: apt

Hi

Currently, "apt-get changelog" doesn't accept source package names (e.g. eglibc) nor does it honor -o APT::Get::Only-Source / --only-source (e.g. "apt-get --only-source changelog linux" doesn't use the linux source package in Ubuntu but the linux binary package in linux-meta).

at least in the Ubuntu and Debian cases, binary packages are mapped to source packages to construct the changelog URLs, so it would seem sensible to support source packages as input?

Thanks!

Revision history for this message
Julian Andres Klode (juliank) wrote :

Confirming. But since we have no table of source package names, that's not really easy yet.

Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Nish Aravamudan (nacc)
Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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