Package: apt Version: 1.8.2 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
It would be nict to have the ability to reference a Debian version also by its major number (e.g. 10) and not only by its name (e.g. buster) in sources.list. E.g. right now `/etc/apt/sources.list` looks like this: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main non-free contrib It should be possible to use `10` instead of `buster`: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ 10 main non-free contrib For those who do not know/remember the chronological sequence of the version names - numbers tell more. It's also allows for a more neutral style - as not everybody might like things like `potato` or `etch`... *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of this action? * What outcome did you expect instead? *** End of the template - remove these template lines *** -- Package-specific info: -- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) -- -- (no /etc/apt/preferences.d/* present) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list present, but not submitted) -- -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_IL, LC_CTYPE=en_IL (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IL:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages apt depends on: ii adduser 3.118 ii debian-archive-keyring 2019.1 ii gpgv 2.2.12-1+deb10u1 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.8.2 ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-6 ii libgnutls30 3.6.7-4 ii libseccomp2 2.3.3-4 ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-6 Versions of packages apt recommends: ii ca-certificates 20190110 Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> pn aptitude | synaptic | wajig <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.19.7 ii gnupg 2.2.12-1+deb10u1 ii powermgmt-base 1.34 -- no debconf information
