Hi, Thanks for closing this very old report of mine from 2006.
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 10:25:33PM +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > Control: tags -1 + pending > > * Match <string> to the src_package names. (~z<string>) > I already implemented ~e recently. Great! ... > > Then we can do equivalent of "apt-get build-dep ..." with regex and > > install command. > > showsrc and source are about to be implemented, and "aptitude build-dep" > (the main goal here) exists for many years anyway. showsrc is great. Yah, "aptitude build-dep" has been around from 2008. I think we have a good set of filter tools to navigate the package list interactively and via commandline, now. Thanks. Osamu