In gmane.linux.debian.devel.general Philipp Hahn <h...@univention.de> wrote: > Hello APT developers,
> today I encountered the strange situation, that Debian-Stretch > officially has 1.1.3-3, but if I do a "apt-get source snappy" I get 1.1.4-1: [...] > So how can I tell "apt-get source" to pull the "right" version, e.g. the > version "libsnappy1v5" was built from? >> $ LANG=C apt-cache policy libsnappy1v5 >> libsnappy1v5: >> Installed: 1.1.3-3 >> Candidate: 1.1.3-3 >> Version table: >> *** 1.1.3-3 500 >> 500 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages >> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > This looks like a bug in APT and did I miss something? apt-get source does not care which version is installed. from apt-get(8) | APT will examine | the available packages to decide which source package to fetch. It | will then find and download into the current directory the newest | available version of that source package ... -t stretch or libsnappy1v5=1.1.3-3 will probably work. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
