Get E: Unable to find a source package for samba when trying to set up Samba build for Debian testing

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 07:32:08PM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Hi folks,

> I was trying to do the following:

>     apt-get build-dep samba

> and got the above error messages. apt-get works for me as I used it to
> make sure that fakeroot, build-essential and git were installed.

> What have I done wrong?

Probably missing the matching 'deb-src' lines for your 'deb' lines in
/etc/apt/sources.list, without which apt doesn't have information about
the source packages.

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