Bug#492360: cannot find source for package, even though showsrc finds it

[Teodor <mteodor@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Joseph Nahmias <joe@nahmias.net> wrote:
> $ apt-get source joystick
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> E: Unable to find a source package for joystick

Works here:
doru@piti:~$ apt-get -t stable source joystick
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Need to get 34.0kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://ftp.ro.debian.org etch/main joystick 20051019-1 (dsc) [611B]
Get:2 http://ftp.ro.debian.org etch/main joystick 20051019-1 (tar) [29.4kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.ro.debian.org etch/main joystick 20051019-1 (diff) [4010B]
Fetched 34.0kB in 0s (146kB/s)
dpkg-source: extracting joystick in joystick-20051019
dpkg-source: info: unpacking joystick_20051019.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: info: applying joystick_20051019-1.diff.gz

The problem in your case is that you have only a sources repo for
unstable. Don't you need another one for 'etch'?

Cheers