Newcomer interested in taking on project to add colors to apt-get/apt-cache

[Michael Loftis]

--On Wednesday, September 15, 2010 10:00 AM -0400 Daniel da Silva 
<ddasilva at umd.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm a newcomer to the Ubuntu Development community, but long time linux
> user. I am interested in starting a patch to add colored output to the
> apt-get/apt-cache (are there any other apt-*s?)[see bug link in
> footnote]. Gentoo, for example, does this very nicely with their emerge
> tool. I was wondering if anyone could answer some questions:
>
> 1) Should patches for apt be submitted to Ubuntu or Debian?
> 2) Are there any *must read* docs you suggest I read before I get started?
> 3) How likely do you think it is that this patch would get accepted?

I think you'd have better luck getting those types patches integrated into 
aptitude rather than apt (assuming aptitude doesn't already have this) -- 
apt-* are, IMO, meant for lower level packaging interaction and so don't 
want/need for frills like this.  aptitude is really meant as a completely 
user facing interface to apt-* and friends and is probably far more 
appropriate a place for these sorts of patches. 
<http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/aptitude.html> is the Debian source 
information for the package.

>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daniel
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/apt/+bug/262227
>