Bug 1637008

Summary: [download] cannot download debugsource (sub)package
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Christian Stadelmann <fedora>
Component: dnf-plugins-coreAssignee: Lukáš Hrázký <lhrazky>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 29CC: amatej, dmach, jpokorny, lhrazky, mblaha, packaging-team-maint, rpm-software-management, vmukhame
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Description Christian Stadelmann 2018-10-08 12:55:28 UTC 
Description of problem:
It seems like the "download" plugin needs to be adopted for the debuginfo/debugsource split. It has been introduced in Fedora 27 [1]

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dnf-plugins-core-3.0.4-1.fc29.noarch

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
Try to download the debugsource package by running either
1. $ dnf download --debuginfo nspr-debugsource
or
2. $ dnf download --debugsource nspr-debugsource

Actual results:
The first command downloads the debuginfo-file (containing no debug source) although I specifically requested otherwise.
The second command fails with this error message:
> dnf download: error: unrecognized arguments: --debugsource

Expected results:
Download debugsource package.

Additional info:
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SubpackageAndSourceDebuginfo
Comment 1 Lukáš Hrázký 2019-08-22 09:25:52 UTC 
PR: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf-plugins-core/pull/353
Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2019-10-31 18:45:59 UTC 
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Comment 3 amatej 2019-11-12 14:48:08 UTC 
I am closing this as NEXTRELEASE because the patch requires newer version of dnf than is available in f29.
It is fixed in dnf-plugins-core-4.0.11-1.fc30 (>= fedora 30)

If this is really needed in f29 please let us know we could also back-port the necessary changes to dnf along with the patch to dnf-plugins-core.