apt-get source php4-cli
Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 5460kB of source archives. Get:1 http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org unstable/main php4 4:4.3.9-1.0.0.1.amd64 (dsc) [1817B] Get:2 http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org unstable/main php4 4:4.3.9-1.0.0.1.amd64 (tar) [4870kB] Get:3 http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org unstable/main php4 4:4.3.9-1.0.0.1.amd64 (diff) [589kB] Fetched 5460kB in 1m40s (54.4kB/s) dpkg-source: error: syntax error in source control file ./php4_4.3.9-1.0.0.1.amd64.dsc at line 17: expected blank line before PGP signature Unpack command 'dpkg-source -x php4_4.3.9-1.0.0.1.amd64.dsc' failed. E: Child process failed
I am using the gcc-3.4 archive. Adding in a blank line there makes the dpkg-source command work fine.