apt reports wrong bazaar link to software center's code
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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software-center (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Kiwinote |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: apt
I wanted to browse the source code of software center and so did the following.
arvind@
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
NOTICE: 'software-center' packaging is maintained in the 'Bzr' version control system at:
https:/
Please use:
bzr get https:/
to retrieve the latest (possibly unreleased) updates to the package.
Need to get 630kB of source archives.
0% [Connecting to archive.ubuntu.com (91.189.92.170)]^C
Following that bzr maintains the code, i tried that link it suggested only to get the following error.
arvind@
bzr: ERROR: Not a branch: "https:/
It should either report "bzr get https:/
A thought that could arise here would be to also change all the "bzr get" to "bzr branch", if the code is hosted in launchpad. For example, "bzr branch lp:ubuntu/maverick/software-center" instead of "bzr get https:/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: apt 0.8.3ubuntu7
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Dec 16 06:46:05 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_IN
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: apt
APT just displays the information it got - specifically the VCS- fields in the package stanzas you can see with "apt-cache show packagename". So these VCS fields seem to be wrong for software-center… (reassign)