Bug#149671: apt-get source not smart enough to know several requested binaries have same source package
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal
Sample output:
[ddipaolo@quinn ~/deb]% apt-get source galeon mozilla-browser mozilla-psm
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Need to get 81.4MB of source archives.
Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main galeon 1.2.3-6 (dsc) [1025B]
Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main galeon 1.2.3-6 (tar) [3937kB]
Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main galeon 1.2.3-6 (diff) [37.0kB]
Get:4 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main mozilla 2:1.0.0-1 (dsc) [994B]
Get:5 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main mozilla 2:1.0.0-1 (tar) [38.3MB]
Get:6 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main mozilla 2:1.0.0-1 (diff) [431kB]
Get:7 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main mozilla 2:1.0.0-1 (dsc) [994B]
Get:8 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main mozilla 2:1.0.0-1 (tar) [38.3MB]
Get:9 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main mozilla 2:1.0.0-1 (diff) [431kB]
Fetched 81.4MB in 8m40s (156kB/s)
dpkg-source: extracting galeon in galeon-1.2.3
dpkg-source: extracting mozilla in mozilla-1.0.0
Skipping unpack of already unpacked source in mozilla-1.0.0
And as the download totals indicate, it did indeed download the source
tarball twice, though it was at least smart enough to not unpack it
twice.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux quinn 2.4.18 #3 Sun Apr 7 15:19:56 CDT 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-9 The GNU stdc++ library
-- no debconf information
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