severity 368009 minor
thanks

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 03:33:55PM +0800, LUK ShunTim wrote:
> Steve Langasek wrote:

> > They should be "downloaded from the mirrors", though in this case the files
> > of those names correspond to sources.list lines of

> >   deb file:///opt/ deb-repo/

> > and 

> >   deb-src file:///opt/ repo/

> > Do you have valid Packages/Sources files in whatever mirror is mounted at
> > this location(s) on your system?

> Steve,

> Now I understand. I don't have any source packages in the local
> repository, and hence an empty Sources.gz file. Commenting out the
> deb-src line in my sources.list solves the problem.

> Please close the bug if it's the intended behaviour of apt (or at least
> apt-src). It would just seem a bit harsh that the error of 1 out of many
> repositories should stop it from working altogether.

Well, I think it's a bug for apt-src to fail this way, just not a bug of the
same severity.

Lowering to minor, and leaving it for the apt-src maintainer to decide how
to deal with it.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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