Bug#441178: still reproducible with apt 0.7.23.1

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

package apt
reopen 441178
notfixed 441178 0.7.23
found 441178 0.7.23.1
retitle 441178 apt-get source needs deb and deb-src entries to fetch
by --target-release
thanks

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 08:43, Timo Juhani Lindfors<timo.lindfors@iki.fi> wrote:
> I'm sorry to say that "apt-get -t stable source nano" still fetches
> nano from unstable. Please reopen this bug if you agree.
Thanks for testing the new version - I have reopened the bug for you. :)

As you can read in the new title i isolate the cause a bit further
for this bug: If you add to your sources.list
deb http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian stable main
in your transcript above apt will happily download the correct version.
(note that in the initial message these lines are included,
 so it works in your old setup.)

This happens because the Codename/Releasename information
is not available in the Source-Cache, so the Package-Cache is
used to retrieve the version which belongs to the given codename.
If you know the exact version you can download the source without
a deb-entry, try e.g.: apt-get source nano=2.0.7-4


Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

David "DonKult" Kalnischkies