Package: apt
Version: 0.6.43.3
Severity: normal
Note, this bug report is from Debian STABLE 3.1 (*), but send from
Debian/unstable, because the machine did not have an email connection.
SYMPTOMS
test:/tmp# apt-get source jwm
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Need to get 331kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://debian.cante.net stable/main jwm 1.1-1 (dsc) [337B]
Get:2 http://debian.cante.net stable/main jwm 1.1-1 (tar) [331kB]
Fetched 331kB in 0s (397kB/s)
sh: dpkg-source: not found
Unpack command 'dpkg-source -x jwm_1.1-1.dsc' failed.
E: Child process failed
SUGGESTION
It would be better if apt checked the existence of dpkg-source before
attempting download and notify user to install dpkg-dev package.
Catching this eerror condition at a very early state would be
preferrable that at the end.
-- Package-specific info:
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.3-1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.0.3-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
Versions of packages apt recommends:
pn debian-archive-keyring <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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