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Bug#359989: marked as done (apt: [apt-get source] fails if dpkg-source is not installed)

Your message dated Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:03:18 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#359989: apt: [apt-get source] fails if dpkg-source is not installed
has caused the Debian Bug report #359989,
regarding apt: [apt-get source] fails if dpkg-source is not installed
to be marked as done.

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Package: apt
Version: 0.6.43.3
Severity: normal

Note, this bug report is from Debian STABLE 3.1 (*), but send from
Debian/unstable, because the machine did not have an email connection.

SYMPTOMS

    test:/tmp# apt-get source jwm
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    Need to get 331kB of source archives.
    Get:1 http://debian.cante.net stable/main jwm 1.1-1 (dsc) [337B]
    Get:2 http://debian.cante.net stable/main jwm 1.1-1 (tar) [331kB]
    Fetched 331kB in 0s (397kB/s)
    sh: dpkg-source: not found
    Unpack command 'dpkg-source -x jwm_1.1-1.dsc' failed.
    E: Child process failed

SUGGESTION

It would be better if apt checked the existence of dpkg-source before
attempting download and notify user to install dpkg-dev package.

Catching this eerror condition at a very early state would be 
preferrable that at the end.

-- Package-specific info:

-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --


-- /etc/apt/sources.list --


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-4    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.0.3-1  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.0.3-1    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

Versions of packages apt recommends:
pn  debian-archive-keyring        <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information

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On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 05:12:13PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
> | The error message in the latest apt is:
> |  _("Unpack command '%s' failed.\n"),S);
> |  _("Check if the 'dpkg-dev' package is installed.\n"));
> | 
> | This should be sufficient IMHO. I don't think the command should fail
> | before the download because having the source available may be still
> | helpful and a subsequent apt-get source (after install dpkg-dev)
> | should do the right thing and unpack the source.
> 
> Erm, this looks like backwards A:
> 
>      1. run apt-get just to see it fail
>      2. install additional package
>      2. re-run apt-get to make it work
> 
> When B: 
> 
>      1. run apt-get, refuse to continue, because
>         preliminary setup is not satisfied
>         (missing command dpkg-source)
> 
> Catching errors as early as possible is considered
> much better from usability perspective.

Expect that apt-get source can be used without using dpkg-source, it is
just the last step which is the unpack with dpkg-source which can't be
done. Beside, your B is just a reworded A as B is failing in 1 just as
well, so you have to install something else and rerun again either way…

So, seems to be the best we can do without breaking users who don't want
to install dpkg-source – and apt is happily picking up files it has
downloaded previously (e.g. in a failed 1.) so you haven't lost
anything.

Hence closing.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

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