Bug#249383: apt-get source should try source packages first or warn about ambiguity

[Goswin Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.24
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

trying to build all packages for amd64 I found this little problem:

Package: libstrscan-ruby1.6
Source: libstrscan-ruby

Package: libstrscan-ruby
Source: ruby-defaults (1.8.1-3)

That looks a bit odd but technically there is nothing wrong with
it. The problem now it running

apt-get source libstrscan-ruby

I would expect it to fetch the libstrscan-ruby source
(libstrscan-ruby1.6 binary) and only failing that check the binary
package libstrscan-ruby for the source name (ruby-defaults).

A warning that libstrscan-ruby is ambigious might be nice also.

MfG
	Goswin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-amd64
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                     1:3.3.3-6    GCC support library
ii  libstdc++5                  1:3.3.3-6    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

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