Package: devscripts
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/dget
dget currently parses the sources.list and then tries to use curl
to fetch files. curl however, does not support the same protocols
as apt, and hence fails easily - for example, by using the mirror+file://
method; for example, on Ubuntu:
$ dget aptitude
dget: retrieving
mirror+file:/etc/apt/mirrors.list/pool/main/a/aptitude/aptitude_0.8.10-9ubuntu4_amd64.deb
curl: (1) Protocol "mirror+file" not supported or disabled in libcurl
dget: curl aptitude_0.8.10-9ubuntu4_amd64.deb
mirror+file:/etc/apt/mirrors.list/pool/main/a/aptitude/aptitude_0.8.10-9ubuntu4_amd64.deb
failed
Please use
/usr/lib/apt/apt-helper download-file $uri $target $hashstring
where $uri and $target should be obvious and $hashstrinng can be hashes to
check, suchas MD5Sum:09b9c392dc1f6e914cea287cb6be34b0; or left out.
for downloading instead, this also solves other problems like
proxy settings differing from apt that I saw in the BTS.
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