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[Bug 1502704] Re: Cannot get source packages without root privileges

 

I've been unable to recreate this bug report.

bdmurray@bizarro:/tmp$ apt-get source 2vcard
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Need to get 12.4 kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/ubuntu/ trusty/universe 2vcard 0.5-3 (dsc) [967 B]
Get:2 http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/ubuntu/ trusty/universe 2vcard 0.5-3 (tar) [9,398 B]
Get:3 http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/ubuntu/ trusty/universe 2vcard 0.5-3 (diff) [2,036 B]
Fetched 12.4 kB in 0s (80.2 kB/s)
gpgv: Signature made Wed 13 Aug 2008 11:38:19 AM PDT using DSA key ID D626ABB6
gpgv: Can't check signature: public key not found
dpkg-source: warning: failed to verify signature on ./2vcard_0.5-3.dsc
dpkg-source: info: extracting 2vcard in 2vcard-0.5
dpkg-source: info: unpacking 2vcard_0.5.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: info: applying 2vcard_0.5-3.diff.gz
dpkg-source: info: upstream files that have been modified: 
 2vcard-0.5/Makefile

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Title:
  Cannot get source packages without root privileges

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When I try
  apt-get source coreutils
  as standard user I get
  Error: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list
  With sudo apt-get source works as expected.
  Remove please the need of root privileges to download source packages.
  I have deb-src lines in /etc/apt/sources.list.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: apt 1.0.1ubuntu2.10
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-63.103-lowlatency 3.13.11-ckt25
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-63-lowlatency i686
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.15
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sun Oct  4 22:27:55 2015
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-04 (548 days ago)

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