Is there a debian lenny patch to allow apt-get to work with sftp?

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Published on 2010-02-22T09:16:44Z Indexed on 2010/03/08 11:21 UTC
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I would like to write things like this in /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb sftp://[email protected]/path other stuff

When I try this, apt-get complains that there is no sftp method for apt:

# apt-get update
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/sftp could not be found.

Has anyone written a patch to add the sftp method for apt? All I could find in Google was this spec for Ubuntu.

Thanks for your help.

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