On Lu, 06 oct 14, 21:13:17, Stuart Longland wrote: > > The beef I have, is this not what happens if you do an `apt-get > download` or an `apt-get source`: in both those latter cases, it never > asks the question, it just flatly refuses to give you the sources. > > Now, merely obtaining the binary package or sources, is surely much less > dangerous than actually *installing* the package? One just dumps the > files in your local directory (a convenience around doing a `wget` > myself), the other unpacks them and places files in my root. > > Is it just me, or is something backward here?
No, it makes sense and you should probably file a bug about it. If the fix is not too intrusive it might make it in stable as a regression fix for whichever security fix broke this use case. As a work-around see if --print-uris helps. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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