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Bug#561971: "apt-get source" always downloads default version



On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:49:37 +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote:

> First of all: Thanks for your excellent bugreport...

You're welcome!

> 2009/12/21 gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>:
> > `apt-get source $package/$release' and `apt-get source
> > $package=$version' (and `apt-get source -t $release $package') have
> > stopped working for me.
> ... and sorry for the breakage!

No big deal :)
Thanks for your quick and informative reply, and good to know that
it's already fixed. 

> Until then you can circumvent this bug for "easy" packages
> by adding the  --only-source flag to your apt-get source command.

Ah, I haven't used this before, thanks for the pointer!
(I resorted to dget'ting the source packages after copying the URLs
from the PTS.)

Cheers,
gregor
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