Bug#183390: apt-get source doesn't check if package dpkg-dev is installed
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
apt-get source doesn't check if the package dpkg-dev is installed, prior
to running dpkg-source. Should be simple to fix.
Here is a transcript:
woody:/usr/src# apt-get source joe
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Need to get 217kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://ftp.se.debian.org woody/main joe 2.8-20 (dsc) [580B]
Get:2 http://ftp.se.debian.org woody/main joe 2.8-20 (tar) [194kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.se.debian.org woody/main joe 2.8-20 (diff) [23.0kB]
Fetched 3B in 0s (6B/s)
dpkg-source: not found
Unpack command 'dpkg-source -x joe_2.8-20.dsc' failed.
E: Child process failed
The system is running Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody) with latest updates,
and without package dpkg-dev installed.
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