[Bug 1598384] Re: [Wishlist] apt command: add more subcommands to autocomplete, help and manpage

[Julian Andres Klode]

All commands have bash completion since recent releases (1.3~exp2,
1.2.13). The former is in yakkety, the latter will hit xenial at some
point (or actually 1.2.14 or 1.2.15 will). We just have another bug
preventing 1.3~exp3 from being in yakkety, so we cannot start the 1.2.14
transition in xenial (as the fixes would not have been tested in yakkety
first otherwise). See bug 1573547.

The help messages only display the most commonly used commands by
design. Repeating everything from the apt-get and apt-cache manual pages
in the apt one would be quite wasteful. It's also distracting: apt is
the easier interface, and those options are more advanced things we
would like to hide from users not knowing them already.

 They are supported so people who know them from apt-get and apt-cache
can just use them with apt, but we're not going to advertise them all
over the place.

** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Opinion

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Title:
  [Wishlist] apt command: add more subcommands to autocomplete, help and
  manpage

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Opinion

Bug description:
  It seems has a lot more subcommands than those listed in the manpage or the help message.
  For example, "download", "policy", "changelog" and "dist-upgrade" all work, and they aren't listed.
  Maybe apt supports all subcommands from apt-get and apt-cache?

  However those subcommands aren't listed in the manpage or the help message.
  They also don't have autocomplete, which makes using them a pain, and makes me use apt-get and apt-cache instead.

  It would be great if all those subcommand were listed in the manpage
  and help message, and if there was autocomplete for them!

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