[wishlist] please add pull-debian-source script

A KISS version using wget/dget:

#!/bin/bash

#Check invocation
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
   name=`basename $0`
   echo "Usage: $name <package> [suite]"
   echo "Download given Debian source package from Debian archive"
   exit 1
fi;

#Escapes any + sign in the package name
arg_uri=`echo "$1" | sed -n 's/\+/%2b/p'`
if [ -z "$arg_uri" ]; then
   arg_uri="$1"
fi;

#Set suite to unstable unless given
#(most probably its worth checking if given suite is valid too)
suite="$2"
if [ -z "$suite" ]; then
   echo "Using the unstable suite"
   suite="unstable"
fi;

#Retrieve version
version=`wget -q -O - "http://qa.debian.org/madison.php?package=$arg_uri&a=source&c=&s=$suite&text=on" | sed -n "/source/s/\s*$1\s|\s*\(\S*\)\s|.*/\1/p"`

#If package do not exist in given suite, exit with error
if [ -z "$version" ]; then
   echo "Either the source package doesn't exist, or its not in the given suite"
   exit 1
fi;

#dget it!
first=`echo $1 | cut -c 1`
dget "http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/$first/$1/$1_$version.dsc"

exit 0

Instead of ftp.debian.org one can use his preferred mirror of course.

I just pushed a new revision to the trunk branch (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-dev/ubuntu-dev-tools/trunk/revision/236) that adds a pull-debian-source script. However, the version in the repositories does NOT have this script right now. It will get the script once a new version of ubuntu-dev-tools is uploaded.

Fantastic job Nathan! Don't forget to add the tag (LP: #289141) to the changelog though.
You should also add your name to the changelog entry (with [Nathan Handler]) so that it is clear who made that entry ...

Thanks for catching that Cesare. I just pushed a new revision which fixes those things.

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-dev-tools - 0.50

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ubuntu-dev-tools (0.50) jaunty; urgency=low

  [ Nathan Handler ]
  * Add pull-debian-source script (LP: #289141)
    - debian/copyright:
      + Add myself to the Upstream Authors and Copyright sections
      + Add pull-debian-source to the License section
    - Add doc/pull-debian-source.1

  [ Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals ]
  * debian/control: Add perl-modules and libwww-perl as Recommended packages

  [ Iain Lane ]
  * pbuilder-dist.new: Add 'experimental' to list of known Debian releases.
    pbuilder-experimental works fine with pbuilder-dist.new.

  [ Jonathan Davies ]
  * buildd: Show which architectures are available in help and created a
    list of them for easy addition of new ones.
  * requestsync:
    - Readd sponsorship flag and related documentation in
      doc/requestsync.1 (LP: #270605).
    - Do not check package's Launchpad bug list page if the package to be
      synced is a new package. As this page does not exist for
      it (LP: #312297).

 -- Jonathan Davies <email address hidden> Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:45:02 +0000