Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> writes:
> Le jeudi 16 septembre 2010 à 03:08 +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit :
>> * Hector Oron <hector.o...@gmail.com>, 2010-09-15, 21:26:
>> > c) allow build depends on source packages, which it is probably a worst
>> > idea.
>>
>> On the contrary, I think that allowing source packages to be installable
>> in the same way as binary packages is an excellent idea. Imagine you can
>> do:
>>
>> apt-get install src:linux-2.6
>>
>> which will install Linux sources into a standard location, or upgrade it
>> if it's already installed.
>
> I agree this is a cleaner solution, but how do you ensure there are
> sources (deb-src) referenced in the sources.list ?
>
> Plus, these packages would (in the current state of affairs) lack a
> description.
Going by what multiarch proposed and apt already supports that should be
apt-get install linux-2.6:src
where "src" is just another architecture (at least for the user
interface).
apt-get install foo:src
should then install the source and also all Build-Depends(-Indep) of the
source. Besides packages Build-Depending on source packages this is also
verry usefull for working on sources. The foo:src package will be marked
manual while all Build-Depends remain automatic. When one is done
working with a source one can purge foo:src and all the Build-Depends
can be autoremoved if nothing else needs them.
MfG
Goswin
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