apt-get source report dead links to svn://anonscm.debian.org
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apt (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Steps to reproduce:
1. Try to obtain source code of some package - for example for BleachBit with `apt-get source bleachbit`
2. Get console output:
Reading package lists... Done
NOTICE: 'bleachbit' packaging is maintained in the 'Svn' version control system at:
svn://
Need to get 794 kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://
Get:2 http://
Get:3 http://
Fetched 794 kB in 1s (739 kB/s)
gpgv: Signature made Tue 24 Mar 2016 18:51:53 MSK using RSA key ID C524065E
gpgv: Can't check signature: public key not found
dpkg-source: warning: failed to verify signature on ./bleachbit_
dpkg-source: info: extracting bleachbit in bleachbit-1.10
dpkg-source: info: unpacking bleachbit_
dpkg-source: info: unpacking bleachbit_
dpkg-source: info: applying desktop_file.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying no_update.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying local_cleaners_
dpkg-source: info: applying gnomevfs.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying firefox_
3. Try to get source code manually with `svn` command
$ cd /tmp
$ svn co svn://anonscm.
svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'svn://
svn: E000101: Can't connect to host 'anonscm.
Expected results:
* `apt-get source ...` reports correct link for the source code, user is able to get the source code manually.
Actual results:
* `apt-get source ...` reports wrong link for the source code, user is unable to get the source code manually.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: apt 1.2.29
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-43-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.18
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Sun Jan 20 17:40:08 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-08-07 (165 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170801)
SourcePackage: apt
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
With FreeMat source package I see another type of links:
Bionic, Cosmic and Disco have https:/ /anonscm. debian. org/cgit/ debian- science/ packages/ freemat. git .
So the problem is wider than shown before.