On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 07:57:35AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > trying to build all packages for amd64 I found this little problem: > > Package: libstrscan-ruby1.6 > Source: libstrscan-ruby > > Package: libstrscan-ruby > Source: ruby-defaults (1.8.1-3) > > That looks a bit odd but technically there is nothing wrong with > it. The problem now it running > > apt-get source libstrscan-ruby > > I would expect it to fetch the libstrscan-ruby source > (libstrscan-ruby1.6 binary) and only failing that check the binary > package libstrscan-ruby for the source name (ruby-defaults). > > A warning that libstrscan-ruby is ambigious might be nice also.
I believe the search functionality is currently such that this would require two separate searches, which seems excessive considering the small benefit. FWIW, you can use --only-source to force the behaviour you want in this case. -- - mdz
