reopen 742578 ! reassign 742578 apt retitle 742578 --simulate (etc) dropped from apt summary 742578 apt-get man-page still includes --summary --no-act, Debian wiki tutorial depends on --no-act
thank you The Debian wiki at: https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingAPackage/SourceInVCS currently relies on --no-act as follows: Vcs-* fields If apt-get source --no-act $package outputs a message like this: NOTICE: 'fdupes' packaging is maintained in the 'Git' version control system at: git://git.debian.org/users/morph/fdupes.git Perhaps either of the following would solve this bug - allowing this option again for apt-get, or both: - removing the options from apt-get's man page, - and putting alternative command in tutorial above (I don't know what that command would be sorry) Note that the comment from Ritesh below (above) "The newer versions of apt have completely replaced --simulate with -s." is incorrect, as far as I can see - see my test commands below, where all of -s and --simulate and the other variations (--no-act etc) all fail to work as per apt-get's manual page. Explanation for the record (re previous email from rrs@) follows: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Zenaan Harkness Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 23:52:00 +1100 Subject: Re: Processed: reassign 742578 apt Hi Ritesh, please let me know if my thinking is right on the following (I'm a user, not a DD): $ apt-get --version apt 1.0.9.2 for amd64 compiled on Oct 2 2014 22:36:40 ... $ apt --version apt 1.0.9.2 for amd64 compiled on Oct 2 2014 22:36:40 ... $ apt -s E: Command line option 's' [from -s] is not known. $ apt --simulate E: Command line option --simulate is not understood $ apt-get -s E: Command line option 's' [from -s] is not known. $ apt-get --simulate E: Command line option --simulate is not understood ie, it appears to me, that at least on my version of sid, that the --simulate option simply doesn't work. The option is in the man-page for apt-get, not in the man page for apt, and produces the same error as above, for both. This is why I transferred the bug to apt package, because to me it looks like a bug, and a debian.org tutorial (reprepro I think) says that option is needed with apt-get source, to get certain output (such as the vcs url for source package cloning). Do you think this is an error for apt/apt-get? Thanks Zenaan On 10/13/14, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <r...@debian.org> wrote: > Why did you reassign it to apt ? This bug actually should be closed now. > The newer versions of apt have completely replaced --simulate with -s. ... -- Banned for life from Debian (MLs), for suggesting Debian's Code of Conduct is being swung in our faces a little too vigorously. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
