feature request: source code for deb package

[annaborn]

@2maz

For development purposes it would be comfortable to have configuration to download source code for certain deb packages.

[doudou]

Hi @annaborn. Not sure what you mean exactly ...

Do you mean a deb-src, that is an environment that would allow you to rebuild the debian package ?

Or do you mean the ability to checkout a source package from git (the "normal" way) instead of the prebuilt debian package ?

[2maz]

Until such feature is available, you can use, e.g.,.,

    apt source rock-master-20.06-base-types

[2maz]

I understood it as: it should be possible to use the deb package, and import (not install) the corresponding source package from git.

The required information is already available in a package's changelog:

zless /usr/share/doc/rock-master-20.06-base-types/changelog.Debian.gz

rock-master-20.06-base-types (0.20200611-1~bionic) unstable; urgency=low

  * Package automatically built using 'apaka'
  * repository: github:/rock-core/base-types.git
  * branch: refs/heads/master
  * commit: 3e6062f59fa4cf260f5bb5621ecc1384cedab3b4
  * tag: 

 -- Rock Packaging Daemon (based on apaka) <[email protected]>  Wed, 02 Sep 2020 11:36:51 +0200
/usr/share/doc/rock-master-20.06-base-types/changelog.Debian.gz (END)