Re: VCS repositories

[Alex Mestiashvili <amestia@rsh2.donotuse.de>]

> I think original poster is unaware of `debcheckout` from
> the package `devscripts`.
> 
> `debcheckout PACKAGE` does "VCS checkout (or cloning) of PACKAGE"
> 
> Checkout URL is taken from debian/control  Vcs-Vcs: 

In case of binutils that will not help:

debcheckout binutils
declared bzr repository at
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~doko/binutils/pkg-2.29-debian
bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~doko/binutils/pkg-2.29-debian
binutils ...
Can't exec "bzr": No such file or directory at /usr/bin/debcheckout line
573.
checkout failed (the command above returned a non-zero exit code)

I guess a tool like debsnap is more appropriate in this case.