I can no longer download source packages using "apt-get source". All I get back is that the package cannot be found. apt-cache showsrc doesn't show it either. Source package databases seem to be present. I get files of substantial size for the repomd-src lines. I don't know how to manually verify them though.
Confirmed, it's something in the new sqlite-backend as forcing xml metadata makes it work again. I'll look into it, most likely just a silly oversight somewhere. In the meanwhile, you can work around it by adding this in /etc/apt/apt.conf: Acquire::RepoMD::NoDB "true";
(PS: Don't forget to put me in the Cc when reassigning bugs :) > In the meanwhile, you can work around it by adding this in /etc/apt/apt.conf: > Acquire::RepoMD::NoDB "true"; Should this become the default until new upstream sources are available (or perhaps a patch)? Or will you be faster fixing the bug than applying the workaround? :)
Fix is here - talk about a silly oversight :) http://apt-rpm.org/scm/?p=apt.git;a=commitdiff;h=b4f1403ed91beb1d856dc90fb1950655789aa255 So, it'll be fixed in next upstream update at least, but of course we can patch it into current fedora-devel package if it's seen important.
Fixed in next rawhide push via update to apt-0.5.15lorg3.93. Pierre, thanks for noticing and reporting this!