Installing source package of a speicified version (the one installed) in Ubuntu

[Tom H]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:08 AM, sktsee <sktseer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 22:07:52 +0000, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:55 PM, sktsee <sktseer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> You are running into this bug:
>>>
>>> apt-get source ignores default release when source package selected
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1179999
>>
>> Thanks for tracking down the bug.
>>
>> Unless I've misunderstood, the dpkg/apt developer says in the Debian bug
>> that if you have both the deb and deb-src entries, apt-source does the
>> right thing, which isn't the OP's experience.
>
> Yeah, I'm not sure why the Debian developer (triager?) said that. I don't
> think he really tested it very well. The bug reporter followed up after
> his comment where he showed apt-get clearly ignorning the default release
> option even after adding the corresponding deb entries to sources.list.
> I've tested it on precise, raring and saucy and I got the same results as
> the bug reporter.

He's definitely one of the main apt developers. I guess that since
there's an easy workaround (especially for someone who's downloading
source files in order to modify and rebuild a package), it's something
that on the back burner for him.