"apt-get source" behaves VERY strangely

[Adam Porter]

Binary package hint: apt

Watch this:

$ apt-get source compiz-bcop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for bcop
$ apt-get source "compiz-bcop"
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for bcop
$ apt-get source compiz-bcop-
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for compiz-bcop-
$ apt-get source ompiz-bcop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for ompiz-bcop
$ apt-get source compiz-bcop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for bcop
$ apt-get source compiz-bcop-huh
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for compiz-bcop-huh
$ apt-get source what-bcop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for what-bcop
$ apt-get source bcop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for bcop
$ apt-get source compiz-bcop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for bcop

And again:

$ apt-get source compiz-fusion-plugins-extra
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for plugins-extra
$ apt-get source compiz-fusion-plugins-extra-huh
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for compiz-fusion-plugins-extra-huh
$ apt-get source compizwhat-fusion-plugins-extra
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for compizwhat-fusion-plugins-extra
$ apt-get source compiz-fusion-plugins-extra-
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for compiz-fusion-plugins-extra-
$ apt-get source compiz-fusion-plugins-extra
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for plugins-extra

But immediately after that, apt-src works:

$ apt-src install compiz-fusion-plugins-extra
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
NOTICE: 'compiz-fusion-plugins-extra' packaging is maintained in the 'Bzr' version control system at:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~compiz/compiz-fusion-plugins-extra/ubuntu
Please use:
bzr get http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~compiz/compiz-fusion-plugins-extra/ubuntu
to retrieve the latest (possible unreleased) updates to the package.
Need to get 3130kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main compiz-fusion-plugins-extra 0.7.2-0ubuntu1 (dsc) [984B]

What is going on here???

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release?

Thanks in advance.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!