apt-get source does not download the correct version

[Jamie Strandboge]

On an up to date Oneiric, if I have deb-src lines for all the stable releases, Debian and Oneiric, and I do:

$ apt-get source xmlsec1=1.2.14-1

Then 1.2.14-1.2 is downloaded from Oneiric. If I remove the Oneiric entry and try again, 1.2.14-1.2 is downloaded from Debian. If I remove the Debian entries, then I get:
$ sudo apt-get update # this returns no errors
$ apt-get source xmlsec1=1.2.14-1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Ignore unavailable version '1.2.14-1.2' of package 'xmlsec1'
E: Unable to find a source package for xmlsec1

I checked in a maverick VM, and it all works fine. 'apt-get check' works fine. This functionality is important to the workflow of the security team. I'll attach a sources.list shortly.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

Sources.list generated via:
$ grep '^deb' ./sources.list ./sources.list.d/*list|cut -f2- -d ':' > /tmp/sources.list

This was tested on my regular machine as well as a clean VM-- same problem.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Its not quite clear to me what you expect to happen here. If 1.2.14-1 is available in Oneiric and you disable the Oneiric sources it makes sense to me that you wouldn't be able to download the source for 1.2.14-1. Could you elaborate as tho what exactly happens in Maverick? (if that's the release that behaves the way you expect)

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

1.2.14-1 is not available in Oneiric, 1.2.14-1.2 is. I want to get 1.2.14-1 from Maverick, as specified in 'xmlsec1=1.2.14-1'. The problem is that apt is not fetching the precise version I specified-- it is guessing I want something else.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This ended up working for me with the following:

(oneiric-amd64)root@flash:~# apt-get source xmlsec1=1.2.14-1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Need to get 1659 kB of source archives.
0% [Working]Failed to create client object: Daemon not running
Failed to create client object: Daemon not running
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe xmlsec1 1.2.14-1 (dsc) [1235 B]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe xmlsec1 1.2.14-1 (tar) [1653 kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe xmlsec1 1.2.14-1 (diff) [5189 B]
Fetched 1659 kB in 1s (1003 kB/s)
gpgv: Signature made Tue Jun 22 14:38:25 2010 PDT using DSA key ID BBEB81BA
gpgv: Can't check signature: public key not found
dpkg-source: warning: failed to verify signature on ./xmlsec1_1.2.14-1.dsc
dpkg-source: info: extracting xmlsec1 in xmlsec1-1.2.14
dpkg-source: info: unpacking xmlsec1_1.2.14.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: info: applying xmlsec1_1.2.14-1.diff.gz
(oneiric-amd64)root@flash:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu maverick main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu maverick main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric-security main restricted universe multiverse

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

Brian, you are missing the -updates and -security pockets for maverick. But, the point is that with my sources.list, which has oneiric for 'deb', and all stable releases, oneiric and Debian releases for 'deb-src', it does not work.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The intent of my comment wasn't "hey you are doing it wrong" rather "this might help someone sort out the bug".

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I was trying something similar today "apt-get source -t quantal openvpn" and received the following error message:

 $ apt-get source -t quantal openvpn
Reading package lists... Done
E: The value 'quantal' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not available in the sources

only after adding deb lines from quantal (I'd previously only had deb-src lines) was I able to get the source of openvpn for quantal.