Bug#492360: cannot find source for package, even though showsrc finds it
Package: apt
Version: 0.6.46.4-0.1
Severity: normal
Hello,
I've run into a strange problem, if I run `apt-get showsrc joystick` I
see the details of the source package joystick. However, `apt-get
source joystick` fails to retrieve the source:
$ apt-cache showsrc joystick
Package: joystick
Binary: joystick
Version: 20051019-4
[snip]
$ apt-get source joystick
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for joystick
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Get "";
APT::Get::Fix-Broken "true";
APT::Get::Show-Upgraded "true";
APT::Get::Purge "true";
APT::Default-Release "stable";
APT::Cache-Limit "16777216";
APT::Clean-Installed "false";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Tools "";
DPkg::Tools::Options "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2";
DPkg::Post-Invoke "";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/bin/debsums ]; then /usr/bin/debsums --generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/archives; fi";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "debsums --generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/archives";
DPkg::Build-Options "-rfakeroot -b -uc";
Debug "";
Debug::pkgProblemResolver "true";
Acquire "";
Acquire::PDiffs "false";
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2007.07.31~etch1 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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