source could warn about missing tools before download
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apt (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: apt
$ apt-get source pipewalker
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Need to get 629kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://
Get:2 http://
Get:3 http://
Fetched 629kB in 19s (31.5kB/s)
sh: dpkg-source: not found
Unpack command 'dpkg-source -x pipewalker_
Check if the 'dpkg-dev' package is installed.
E: Child process failed
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 20db595a7600396
CheckboxSystem: daed2f3d6643b4a
Date: Sat Oct 31 18:50:48 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: apt 0.7.23.1ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: apt
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
I think that apt-get source did it's job as the sources are downloaded. The extraction of the sources is a nice benefit. Would you agree that this is more of a feature request than a bug report?