[Aptitude-devel] Bug#269097: not a word about it in the docs

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

$ find /usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en -name \*html|xargs grep -Pi \\bur[il]s|wc -l
0

One would think a program that would fetch things at least would also
have a way to tell what it wants to fetch.

I suppose one must use Man in the Middle techniques to pry this
information.

Or set up a phony proxy server.

Tons of use cases. Don't always assume the machine running aptitude is
the same one connected to the internet.

Don't always assume one wants to get the files at the same time one is
running aptitude, etc. etc. etc.

Also one sometime would like to know the URLs of something one is told
to download... within one's rights I suppose.

And this one can manipulate those URLs for whatever reasons one might want...