Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: normal I was trying to get an older version of the source package (of comerr-dev) from debian and failing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] source comerr-dev='2.0-1.27-2' Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Unable to find a source package for comerr-dev Whereas: [EMAIL PROTECTED] source comerr-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 3085kB of source archives. Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main e2fsprogs 1.34+1.35-WIP-2003.08.21-3 (dsc) [811B] Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main e2fsprogs 1.34+1.35-WIP-2003.08.21-3 (tar) [3081kB] Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main e2fsprogs 1.34+1.35-WIP-2003.08.21-3 (diff) [2914B] Fetched 3085kB in 15s (193kB/s) dpkg-source: extracting e2fsprogs in e2fsprogs-1.34+1.35-WIP-2003.08.21 (which got me the most recent source for comerr-dev from the e2fsprogs package), worked. Since comerr-dev comes from the e2fsprogs package, I tried typing apt-get source e2fsprogs='1.27-2' (This is the version of e2fsprogs which comerr-dev 2.0-1.27-2 package was generated from.) And this worked. [EMAIL PROTECTED] source e2fsprogs='1.27-2' Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 1380kB of source archives. Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main e2fsprogs 1.27-2 (dsc) [759B] Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main e2fsprogs 1.27-2 (tar) [1377kB] Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main e2fsprogs 1.27-2 (diff) [2577B] Fetched 1380kB in 6s (210kB/s) dpkg-source: extracting e2fsprogs in e2fsprogs-1.27 Attached is my /etc/apt/sources.list -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux pcp02151346pcs.umrion01.pa.comcast.net 2.4.21 #1 Sat Aug 23 21:30:41 EDT 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-15 The GNU stdc++ library
