Bug#626251: apt-get source gets confused by multiple versions in a list
Package: apt
Version: 0.8.10.3
Severity: important
After upgrading from lenny to squeeze, trying to build packages from unstable,
apt-get source sometimes works:
simon@dealer ~ % apt-get source apt
...
Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main apt 0.8.14.1 (dsc) [1,363 B]
...
(That is, correctly, fetching the unstable version.) And sometimes fails
spectacularly:
simon@dealer ~ % apt-get source duplicity
...
E: Ignore unavailable version '0.6.08b-1' of package 'duplicity'
E: Unable to find a source package for duplicity
Wait, 0.6.08b-1 is the *stable* version. I don't want the stable version,
that's the whole point. Oh, maybe I need to say "-t unstable":
simon@dealer ~ % apt-get -t unstable source duplicity
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Ignore unavailable target release 'unstable' of package 'duplicity'
E: Unable to find a source package for
But clearly there is an entry for duplicity in the sources list:
simon@dealer ~ % grep duplicity_ /var/lib/apt/lists/*Sources
a35f37d3a519b51be903c3f71588f487 1032 duplicity_0.6.12-1.dsc
9b84c984054550bbb2ba29b553567b7b 296045 duplicity_0.6.12.orig.tar.gz
17ecd266d7b7307512ab969c8fbd2669 13272 duplicity_0.6.12-1.diff.gz
...
In fact, there are *two different versions*:
...
b73a68286bc79140aab950ed13747a49 1033 duplicity_0.6.13-1.dsc
b3d627f35fc527b00121925840d5cca7 296955 duplicity_0.6.13.orig.tar.gz
ee420e83778e7a8dda731ed848cf84ab 13635 duplicity_0.6.13-1.diff.gz
Obviously that's not an ideal scenario but apt-get source should *not*
throw its hands up and say "obviously you wanted the stable version which
I can't find".
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Install-Recommends "1";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::Acquire "";
APT::Acquire::Translation "environment";
APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^firmware-linux.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-firmware$";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^kfreebsd-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-ubuntu-modules-.*";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections "";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "metapackages";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "restricted/metapackages";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/metapackages";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "multiverse/metapackages";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "oldlibs";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "restricted/oldlibs";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/oldlibs";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "multiverse/oldlibs";
APT::Periodic "";
APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "0";
APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "0";
APT::Update "";
APT::Update::Post-Invoke "";
APT::Update::Post-Invoke:: "touch /var/lib/apt/periodic/update-success-stamp 2>/dev/null || true";
APT::Archives "";
APT::Archives::MaxAge "30";
APT::Archives::MinAge "2";
APT::Archives::MaxSize "500";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::mirrors "mirrors/";
Dir::State::extended_states "extended_states";
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::netrc "auth.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Etc::preferencesparts "preferences.d";
Dir::Etc::trusted "trusted.gpg";
Dir::Etc::trustedparts "trusted.gpg.d";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
Dir::Media "";
Dir::Media::MountPath "/media/apt";
Dir::Log "var/log/apt";
Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log";
Dir::Log::History "history.log";
Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently "";
Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently:: "~$";
Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently:: "\.disabled$";
Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently:: "\.bak$";
Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently:: "\.dpkg-[a-z]+$";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Post-Invoke "";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -d /var/lib/update-notifier ]; then touch /var/lib/update-notifier/dpkg-run-stamp; fi; if [ -e /var/lib/update-notifier/updates-available ]; then echo > /var/lib/update-notifier/updates-available; fi ";
CommandLine "";
CommandLine::AsString "apt-config dump";
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
#deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main
deb ftp://mirror.hetzner.de/debian/packages stable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
#deb http://debian.etc.gen.nz stable rt
# deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
ii aptitude 0.6.3-3.2 terminal-based package manager (te
ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.10 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii python-apt 0.7.100.1 Python interface to libapt-pkg
-- no debconf information
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