Bug#37393: apt: download of up-to-date files should be possible

[Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler <ujr@physik.phy.tu-dresden.de>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.4
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

 this is probably easy to implement. apt should allow to download
 (and install?) already installed and up-to-date packages. This makes
 sense for several reasons, although I only have two of them at the
 moment:

 * if (some) files belonging to a certain package have been deleted or
   changed by error
 * if I want to download packages for updates on another computer, which
   is not connected to the internet

 Maybe '-f' is the way to do it, but it doesn't work at the moment.

 Thanks,

  Ulf


-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux pkfp20 2.2.7 #1 Thu Apr 29 16:54:58 CEST 1999 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6           2.1.1-3        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii  libstdc++2.9    2.91.61-1      The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)