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
PR: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf-plugins-core/pull/353
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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.