Package: devscripts
Version: 2.9.27
Severity: normal

The synopsis of dget is:

    $ dget --help

    Usage: dget [options] URL
           dget [options] package[=version]

    Downloads Debian packages, either from the specified URL (first form),
    or using the mirror configured in /etc/apt/sources.list (second form).

However this does not accept file:// URLs as defined in
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt (See 3.10 FILES). An example:

     cd $HOME
     dget -x file:///tmp/foo-1.1.dsc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  debianutils                 2.17.4       Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg-dev                    1.13.25      package building tools for Debian
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  perl                        5.8.8-7      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  sed                         4.1.5-1      The GNU sed stream editor

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  fakeroot                      1.5.12     Gives a fake root environment

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