[GLLUG] Retrieving debian source package.

[John Hearns]

If you can 'see' the source package can you not use wget to download it?

On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 at 10:14, Tim Woodall via GLLUG <
gllug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm struggling to work out how to retrieve a debian source package. I
> get this:
>
> tim at dirac:~/git/pkgrebuild/squid$ apt-get --print-uris -t buster source
> squid
> Reading package lists... Done
> E: Can not find version '4.6-1+deb10u2' of package 'squid'
> E: Unable to find a source package for squid
>
> I can see the source packages in http://ftp.uk.debian.org/
>
> I have this in my lists:
>
> Package: squid
> Binary: squid3, squid, squid-common, squidclient, squid-cgi, squid-purge
> Version: 4.6-1+deb10u1
> Maintainer: Luigi Gangitano <luigi at debian.org>
> Uploaders: Santiago Garcia Mantinan <manty at debian.org>
>
>
> And there's nothing for squid in buster-updates sources which is where the
> Version: 4.6-1+deb10u2
> binary package lives.
>
>
> Obviously I can manually download these source files and work from that
> but I'd like to understand how this is supposed to work.
>
> These are, I think, the relevant sources:
> root at dirac:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# grep "" *src.sources
> debian-security-src.sources:Types: deb-src
> debian-security-src.sources:URIs: http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian
> debian-security-src.sources:Suites
> <http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debiandebian-security-src.sources:Suites>:
> buster-updates
> debian-security-src.sources:Components: main contrib non-free
> debian-security-src.sources:
> debian-src.sources:Types: deb-src
> debian-src.sources:URIs: http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian
> debian-src.sources:Suites: buster testing sid
> debian-src.sources:Components: main contrib non-free
> debian-src.sources:
>
>
> Can anybody tell me what, if anything, I'm doing wrong?
>
>
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