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

[Richard Sharpe]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> wrote:
> 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.

If I was not a bear of such little brain I would be able to figure that out.

As it stands, I simply used apt-get to install the packages that
dpkg-buildpackage said were missing.

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Regards,
Richard Sharpe
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