Bug#695546: apt: can't download source package when same-name binary pkg from different-name src pkg exists
Daniel Hartwig dixit:
>However, can you try this command:
>$ apt-get -d source --only-source konsole=4:4.8.4-2
Okay, that one works, although it’s pretty long to type
and not too easy to remember…
>I don't know where you got the idea to use the “src:” prefix, but that
>is not a documented syntax.
… oh. Well, almost all other Debian tools I use support it, and I
probably just mistook apt for doing the same.
>Anyway, this should only be a temporary problem and happens in
>either of two rare situations:
>- a binary package moves from one source to another; and
>- a source package is newer than the correspondingly available
> binary or source package.
The second situation is actually my default case… it’s what I use
apt-get source for all day.
>Both of which have happened to you at the same time, though you do
>have quite a mixture of repositories in your sources.list.
I can reduce it to just debian-ports unstable+unreleased binary plus
debian source, that’d not be an issue.
>It has exposed what may be a real bug in apt-get's selection of source
>packages when given --only-source and a version.
When not given --only-source but a version.
>> I think the selection mechanism is mapping the binary→source name
>> too early.
>
>That is documented
Hrm, okay.
>To avoid the mapping you should use “--only-source”, which is implicit
>when a version is specified, so indeed something is afoul here.
Ah okay. Thanks for the quick response and the possible workaround.
Goodnight,
//mirabilos
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