Bug#247735: apt-get source: deb-src ignores user/password information in http://

[Tomas Vinar <tvinar@bioinformatics.uwaterloo.ca>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal

The username an password given in sources.list as follows:
deb-src http://username:password@host/...
seem to be ignored resulting in 401 Authorization Required error when
trying to download with
apt-get source

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux monod 2.4.22-openmosix-3-bif3 #1 SMP Tue Apr 20 15:28:33 EDT 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.2.5-11.5        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-11woody1 The GNU stdc++ library