Well there are several problems with this....

apt-get source gets the source of a released debian package.  The point
of apt-get source is to get the source package for a certain release.

What's in the repository is generally a subset of that, so for most use
cases the warning is irrelevant because, as with one of my examples:

WARNING: 'pyspf' is maintained in the 'Svn' version control system at:
svn://svn.debian.org/python-modules/packages/pyspf/trunk/

pyspf is NOT maintained at svn.debian.org.  Only the debian dir is.
Additionally, what's in the Debian svn is not relevant to what I would
do for Ubuntu.

So what the warning states is incorrect.

Additionally, now there's an added step I have to take so this
"improvement" provides incorrect information and makes more work for me.

If the warning were made accurate, I see no harm in providing the
information, but I think asking for the confirmation because of a fact
that's at best tangentially related to what I'm trying to do is overly
intrusive.

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