Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 apt-get source doesn't check if the package dpkg-dev is installed, prior to running dpkg-source. Should be simple to fix. Here is a transcript:
woody:/usr/src# apt-get source joe Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 217kB of source archives. Get:1 http://ftp.se.debian.org woody/main joe 2.8-20 (dsc) [580B] Get:2 http://ftp.se.debian.org woody/main joe 2.8-20 (tar) [194kB] Get:3 http://ftp.se.debian.org woody/main joe 2.8-20 (diff) [23.0kB] Fetched 3B in 0s (6B/s) dpkg-source: not found Unpack command 'dpkg-source -x joe_2.8-20.dsc' failed. E: Child process failed The system is running Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody) with latest updates, and without package dpkg-dev installed.
