Bug#807064: "dget $pkg" fails with "no hostnames in apt-cache policy $pkg for version ... found" since apt 1.1

[James McCoy]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 09:01:50PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Since the installation of apt 1.1, dget fails to download binary
> packages always with the same error message independent of the
> package:
> 
> $ dget apt
> dget: no hostnames in apt-cache policy apt for version 1.1.3 found

$ apt-cache policy apt
apt:
  Installed: 1.1.3
  Candidate: 1.1.3
  Version table:
 *** 1.1.3 500
        500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

> It still works fine in Debian Testing with apt 1.0.10.2 still being
> installed:
> 
> $ dget apt
> dget: retrieving http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apt/apt_1.0.10.2_amd64.deb
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
> 100 1063k  100 1063k    0     0  3118k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 3120k

$ schroot -c stretch --directory / -- apt-cache policy apt
apt:
  Installed: 1.0.9.10
  Candidate: 1.0.9.10
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.9.10 0
        500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

The problem is that dget is looking for a line with a 0 priority, but
apt now properly reports the priority.

Should be a simple fix.  Thanks for the report!

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>