Bug#607999: 'apt-get source $src' fails

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

On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 21:31, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> $ apt-get source dietlibc
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Ignore unavailable target release 'testing' of package 'dietlibc'
> E: Unable to find a source package for

dietlibc-{dev,doc} both Recommends/Suggests a dietlibc package, which
doesn't exist in the archive, but as it is referenced for APT the package
exists, but as it isn't in an archive it has no version - especially none
for testing.

The problem is now, that you have a APT::Default-Release configured so
the command is equal to
$ apt-get source dietlibc -t testing
and in the current implementation even equal to
$ apt-get source dietlibc/testing

So APT think you want a specific version of that package which isn't present.
Without APT::Default-Release set it (now obviously) works.

Needs a bit of reordering of logic in FindSrc i assume. Will have a closer
look next week or so with hopefully a bit more time.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies