Bug#862668: debsnap: fails with multitarball source packages

[Cyril Brulebois]

Hi,

Cyril Brulebois <kibi at debian.org> (2017-05-15):
> You'll find attached a patch which starts by downloading and parsing the
> dsc file to extract the list of required filenames, which should help a
> bit compared to the current “let's find one of the filenames which had
> suitable contents” approach. Checking the presence of the source package
> name at the beginning of the filename is not sufficient…
> 
> I've also checked the issue and its resolution for various versions of
> vlc, and with all current versions of firefox-esr (using a loop over
> rmadison's output).
> 
> Thanks for considering.

It would be nice to have this fixed at some point (possibly in stable
suites as well). Failing to fetch source packages is a blocker in various
situations (bisecting packages, starting a backport/local version, etc.,
and random debugging).


KiBi.
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