Bug#731102: apt: "apt-get source package/suite" unavailable target

[Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org>]

package: src:apt
severity: normal
version: 0.9.13

apt-get source will currently produce errors when only source lines
are included in /etc/apt/sources.list.

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main

deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy  main
$ apt-get source lighttpd/stable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Ignore unavailable target release 'stable' of package 'lighttpd'
E: Unable to find a source package for

This does work when an associated binary source line is included, but
it would be preferable to not need this since it would save some
unnecessary downloading when working with multiple suites.

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy  main
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy  main
$ apt-get source lighttpd/stable
[success]

In the meantime, of course "apt-get source lighttpd=version" is usable.

Thanks for considering this.

Best wishes,
Mike