I am downloading the Debian source files for the heimdal package by running this command
apt-get source --download-only heimdal
This downloads the source files for the release sid (unstable). However, what I want are the sources for release stretch (stable). I am running this command on a Debian jessie (oldstable) machine. I tried adding the -t stable option but that still gave me the source files for unstable.
How do I do this?
apt-get source downloads the newest source it has available by default, but you can override that by specifying a version any of the normal ways:
apt-get source --download-only heimdal=7.1.0+dfsg-13+deb9u1
apt-get source --download-only heimdal/stretch
should both work, provided you also have stretch deb-src lines in your sources.list.
Another alternative, depending on your workflow, is dgit:
dgit clone heimdal stretch,-security
will leave you with a git repository in heimdal/
Have a look here: https://packages.qa.debian.org/h/heimdal.html
From there you can choose which version you want to download.
In your case, that would be: https://packages.debian.org/source/stable/heimdal
This way, you don't have to mess up your sources.list
