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

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 07:57:35AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:

> 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.

I believe the search functionality is currently such that this would require
two separate searches, which seems excessive considering the small benefit.

FWIW, you can use --only-source to force the behaviour you want in this
case.

-- 
 - mdz