As a followup to my previous message - When running apt-get source <package> It appears that <package> needs to be a binary package name, not a source package name. This makes my earlier observation about the "deb" entries make a little more sense to me, and leads me to believe that this behavior is by design. However, reading the apt-get man page, it's not clear to me that "apt-get source" does not allow specifying a source package name instead of a binary package name. Maybe something should be mentioned in the man page in case someone else comes along that's as dense as me ;-) So perhaps this winds up being more of a wishlist item than a bug. But I still believe that either altering "source" or adding a "source"-like command that uses source package names and the source release indexes would be nice, in order to give a source download option that isn't dependent on the binary releases.
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