Manual for apt

[Tom H]

On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
>
> Since the man page claims "Much like apt itself, its manpage is intended
> as an end user interface and as such only mentions the most used
> commands and options" and we get "WARNING: apt does not have a stable
> CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts." should we assume that
> apt is an Easter egg tool that will not be backwards compatible to
> itself. IOW could it be that e.g. "apt policy" [1] could be dropped in
> the future? Could it happen that "apt list --installed" will output a
> different formatted output even within a dot version upgrade? Will
> defaults arbitrarily vary from upgrade to upgrade, e.g.
>
> [weremouse at moonstudio ~]$ apt-config dump | grep
> Keep-Downloaded-Packages
> Binary::apt::APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages "0";
>
> will switch arbitrarily between "0" and "1"?

I've filed a bug report for "Keep-Downloaded-Packages":

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=836598