[Bug 81541] Re: Aptitude should have a possibility to edit/add packages' repositories (sources.list)

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** Changed in: aptitude (Debian)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Aptitude should have a possibility to edit/add packages' repositories
  (sources.list)

Status in “aptitude” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “aptitude” package in Baltix:
  Invalid
Status in “aptitude” package in Debian:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: aptitude

  Aptitude is a great package manager, but one important thing is missing - a possibility to add/edit packages' repositories (sources.list file or files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ folder).
  This possibility exists in the majority of package managers, like synaptic or smartpm, so why aptitude users should exit from aptitude and run "editor /etc/apt/sources.list" manually when they wanna add or edit software repositories ? When Ubuntu 6.06 was released, editing packages repositories in text mode became even harder - user should care not only about sources.list file, but also about files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ folder :(

  I think it's not hard to add an editing ability of packages'
  repositories  in aptitude by showing contents of the files from
  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ folder + /etc/apt/sources.list file, letting
  user to select wanted entry and then starting command:

  editor 'file, which contains user's chosen entry'

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