Bug#127759: apt "source": better failure handling ?
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist
When trying to apt-get source ppp, I got:
root@gate:/usr/src/system# apt-get source ppp
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Need to get 583kB of source archives.
Get:1 ftp://rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de testing/main ppp 2.4.1.uus-1 (dsc)
[633B]
Get:2 ftp://rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de testing/main ppp 2.4.1.uus-1 (tar)
[534kB]
Get:3 ftp://rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de testing/main ppp 2.4.1.uus-1 (diff)
[47.8kB]Fetched 583kB in 13s (43.2kB/s)
sh: dpkg-source: command not found
Unpack command 'dpkg-source -x ppp_2.4.1.uus-1.dsc' failed.
E: Child process failed
root@gate:/usr/src/system#
This is a bit unintuitive, I guess.
We might want to direct the interested reader at the dpkg-dev package
here...
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